Are New Parents Boring and Incompetent?
It has been debated recently that as soon as children come along, people lose most of their talents for conversation outside the realms of parenthood, child rearing and topics which generally cover nursery issues. Amongst younger parents the problem has been known to separate them from friends they have known for years, due to their inability to discuss any subject sensibly which does not centre around the new arrival in their lives and to behave sensibly in the houses of their friends with their children. Gradually interest in staying in touch dwindles and friends fade away, never to be seen again, at least until Junior reaches school age. What is it that makes us blind to our own stupidities in these matters? Probably the most self centred peer group out there are the single, professional set. Not the kind of people who would be interested in whether your new addition is taking solids yet. Yet new parents themselves often hail from this echelon of an ambitious and self preserving soc
