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What is the value of Experience? Until you give birth you don't have a clue what being pregnant is like. Is experience priceless?

Until you get cancer you have no idea what that world is like. Until you have been hungry (not by choice but b y circumstance) you can only imagine what having that gnawing pain in your gut is like. All the role-playing and play-acting in the word can't hold a candle to being there, experiencing it, surviving. Right?

Posted - April 22, 2017
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  • Experience is the best teacher, or so said Cicero of ancient days. But then, some of the best obstetricians never had a baby.
      April 22, 2017 7:12 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Exactly! But you have to BE a parent before you have a clue what it entails. You have to actually give birth to know what carrying a baby for 9 months and being pregnant is like. Being an obstetrician is simply learning how to do the mechanics. Like repairing a car or building a house. There are methods and procedures and plans you can follow. You learn what they are and you can do it too. But nurturing/guiding/teaching? You have to do it to get good at it. You have to experience it personally over time to learn how to do it. Reading about it in books written by others is inadequate. Thank you for your reply driftwood and Happy Monday! :)
      April 24, 2017 5:39 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    pretty valuable
      April 23, 2017 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    How and why?
      April 24, 2017 5:40 AM MDT
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