Time and Number of Kids: Inversely Proportional

Image via Wikipedia There seems to be an inverse relationship between the number of kids you have and the speed at which they grow up.

With one kid, time moves slowly. You mark hours and minutes. To the day, you know old s/he is.

As you get more kids, the time flies and...poof.s/he is 6 months old.

Perhaps it is because you can't focuse entirely on that one kid and as a result, the time spent devoted to that one kid is, in sum, less than the time spent over the equivalent amount of time with the first kid.

For example, with one kid, you spend 2 hours per day. Over 6 months (@30 days/month), you've spent 180 hours with kid #1.

But, with kid #3, you've only spent 30 minutes per day, so over 6 months, you've spent a total of 90 hours with him, or roughly the amount you spent in 3 months with kid #1.

So, it feels like kid #3 should be 3 months, but in fact is 6 months...hence time flies.

Crazy, eh?