Badly Behaved Children:Evelutionary benefits

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I was watching a program about taking care of children. As usual the children are badly behaved. Without making this long, could there be evolutionary benefits of children behaving so badly apposed to behaving themselves. What worse could happen if children was well behaved and done their homework.

Hmm..yeh, it's attention.

Think about it, if you only get paid any attention when you're badly behaved/acting up, what possible inclination is there for you to be good?

So what are the evolutionary benefits of requiring attention this way.

I thought that this could be some kind of dominating skill of some sort. But children are thought of to not know the rules so they have to learn somehow.

Maybe child behaviors have to be variable for learning. What behaving is I beleive is called "to obey". If children do not obey then they are creating their own rules... Excitement can come from novel situations (to misbehave may very novel) and the child may be liable to do such things.

When children misbehave, it's generally noisy.


In nature, a certain type of bird has disntict parental stragies.

Mothers will feed chicks according to a strict rota.
Fathers, howver, will tend to give to those that make the loudest and most perstient noise.

http://www.borntoexplore.org/addexp~1.htm

If ADHD is the route of the bad behavior then the above link explain some of the positive effects of ADHD .

There are different kinds of A.D.D

I see ADHD as introvert personalities. My model of introvert personalities are when people have a tendency to generate an abundance of ideas without thinking as much about them.

Of course, people who have ADHD can also have other attributes linked to some intellectual charactoristics or other neurological traits such as bipolar and schizophrenia. Some people who have ADHD are very intellectually gifted such as some of the population of scientists and engineers.

I think that there is also other kinds of introvertness unrelated to ADHD but is more mild.

Therefore, I conclude that most introvertness in the population is linked to creativity.

Many people who are introvert are more likely to do things to mainly just stimulate introvert attention or perhaps introverted creativity like gardening, arranging stuff in a house or office, cooking, and shopping for things.

This is just a model of things that I have so its not meant to be cast in stone. Only delibertly if it will go anywhere.