Favorite Child & Dream Jobs

Do you have a favoite child? Study shows most of us do and Dangerous Dave talks about what influences them being our favorite. Plus, a poll of our dream jobs in the world put pilot at number 1.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please sep deeper in the din with dangerous deed. Well,
here's a dirty little secret. Parents do have a favorite
child and if you're wondering if it's you, well maybe
you are the chosen ones. So a study analyzed data
from over nineteen thousand participants. They found that parents do
treat their children differently. The ways they choose their favorites
is more systematic than you would think. Here's some takeaways

(00:23):
from the study. Both mothers and fathers tend to favor daughters.
Parents favorite children who demonstrate responsibility and organization in their
daily lives, like completing homework, keeping things clean. Agreeable children
are also more likely to be favored basically the kids
who show cooperation and consideration in family life, basically those
who make the parents' lives easier to help maintain a

(00:44):
healthy family. Dynamic birth order matters, but not for favoritism.
By the way, parents tend to give older siblings more
autonomy later curfews, more freedom to make decisions, but not
more likely to favor the older sibling just because they
were first. Many aspects of mental favoritism are more subtle
than you would think. For example, in some cases, parents
acknowledged treating one child more favorably, but those children themselves

(01:07):
didn't report noticing any difference in that treatment. I noticed
with my kids, depending upon who they were and their
age and how they acted, favoritism might have shifted sometimes.
To begin with, it's the oldest for me. Then it
was the middle because she was so cute, and then
all of a sudden it was my son because my
daughters were teenagers. Yeah, that's when my gray hair started

(01:30):
deeper in the two. Well, if you asked your seventh
grader what the dream job would be, they'd probably say
something like electrophysiologist, YouTube rapper, subway sandwich. Artists who knows
new research came up with a list of dream jobs worldwide,
and they did it by looking at targeted online research
for stuff like how to be a fill in the
blank in the end. Top dream job pilot. That's interesting

(01:52):
because flying the friendly skies seems to get less sexy
every year, and I know there is a big demand
for pilots. Well, the appeal bill is commercial flying because
it's the number one dream job in America flight attendant
in America, but worldwide it's pilot, followed by attorney, police officer, pharmacist, nurse,
physical therapist, midwife, prosecutor, actor, judge, doctor, professor, YouTuber, dietitian, psychologist, firefighter,

(02:17):
which always used to be the top five, down at
number sixteen, flight attendant at seventeen, real estate agents, psychiatrist, paramedic.
Whatever happened to people wanting to be a teacher? Canada,
Australia and India, the number one dream job is DJ.
I don't know if it's mine or actual live DJ,
scratching and all that good stuff. Mexico and virtually everywhere
in Central America it's attorney England, Scotland, YouTuber and Bulgaria

(02:41):
taxi driver. So DJ, well, that was my dream job
when I was a kid. I went to school to
be a teacher and ended up in this studio too.
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