A British statistician has developed a formula to help parents on long car journeys: they can now calculate exactly when their children will start whining.
A well-known travel situation: the children occupy the back seat of the minivan, the luggage is loaded, the navigation system says: three hours to the destination, no traffic jams. So everything should go smoothly. But after half an hour the dreaded question comes from behind for the first time: “When are we there?” Shortly thereafter, it becomes “When are we at last da?” At some point the screaming starts, toys and carrot pieces fly through the interior. Another hour and 50 minutes to the finish.
A British statistician has now scientifically researched this scenario, he has meritoriously devised a method for predicting the likelihood and timing of a child’s rear seat tantrum during a lengthy journey. according to dr James Hind from Nottingham Trent University, parents can therefore use the formula in the future T = 70 + 0.5E + 15F – 10S use to predict infantile meltdown. The research, based on a survey of 2000 parents, found that the time (T) it takes for an average child to throw their first tantrum during a long car journey is 70 minutes. The likelihood of a tantrum decreases with every minute the child is entertained (E). With food (F), the parents can delay it by 15 minutes. Siblings (S) traveling with you, on the other hand, increase the probability that the freak will happen ten minutes earlier.
Practically applied: Take plenty of F with you, load YouTube videos onto the tablet that provide E and explain all S as far as possible. And if the great formula doesn’t help at all, the tried-and-tested house recipe comes into play – a dignified freak out on the part of the driver. Then hopefully it will soon be quiet back there, damn hoe!!!
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