Brad has a long drive to work and he also loves random facts and uncommon but interesting things. He listened to a podcast on Dragon Babies. The Chinese culture loves to celebrate the Chinese New Year and each year has a zodiac animal assigned to it. As the Chinese story goes there was a great race and 12 animals finished. The animals were rewarded by being named each year of the Chinese calendar. You can look up what year you were born and see what animal that has been assigned to that year. Each animal has different qualities.
The dragon is one of the animals and it is seen as a powerful creature. The Chinese people see it as the most desirable of the zodiac animals because it is associated with strength and intellect. People born in this year are said to not be afraid of difficulties and are thought to be more successful.
During the podcast, Brad learned that people in China like to plan to have their child during the year of the dragon. Nurses and doctors know that the year of the dragon will be a very busy baby year. Schools also see very large class sizes when the year of the dragon babies come through.
Studies were done on people who were born during the year of the dragon to see if they really were more successful compared to people born in other zodiac signs. The initial study looked at financial wealth and level of education. And oddly enough, dragon babies did achieve more in these areas.
Then they dug a little deeper to try to explain these results. They started looking at dragon baby IQ’s. There was no significant difference between dragon baby IQ’s and other baby IQ’s.
The researchers concluded that dragon baby children weren’t any different than other children, but because they had higher expectations and more encouragement throughout their lives they were able to achieve more.
The year of the dragon does not come around again until 2024, but by encouraging the children in our lives and believing in them helps them all grow up to be dragon babies.
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