Usually I see kids who talk about their parents not cooking at home, and knowing they have 2 fully able parents to do a proper sit down dinner, I have to say that they are lazy – too lazy to cook or too lazy to learn how (and teach their child to cook!)

One thing that I see that really irks me is the parent too lazy to get their own beer from the fridge and sends the child to get one. Great message to be teaching!

I think it’s what you’ve grown up with as well– in the study about genetics and laziness, they had 2 groups of mice. One group came from parent mice who were raised to be lazy (and their offspring wound up being lazy too) and the other group came from parent mice who were raised to be active. In this case, it’s “like parents, like children.”

The problem with the “how hard Americans work” idea is that it’s measuring how long we work rather than how focused we are while working. But– with all the texting, pinging, commenting, and facebooking, I have to wonder if people are working as hard as they might appear…

Thanks for visiting!

Dr. Robyn

I don’t know about genetics playing a part, I’ve got no background in that. I think it has more to do with how you were brought up and who you surround yourself with.

And I don’t believe for one bit that study that shows American workers don’t work as much. Aren’t there also facts out there about the Europeans (French especially) working less and less each year? Aren’t they going on strike about that all the time?