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Merry Christmas!

Among many activities today, I watched Home Alone. It is a deceptively great movie. Funny and campy, yes. Also, thoughtful and well constructed.

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The Jobs You’re Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father - The New York Times

Children often pursue their parents’ jobs because of the breakfast-table effect: Family conversations influence them. They fuel interests or teach children what less commonly understood careers entail (probably one reason textile spinning and shoemaking are high on the list of jobs disproportionately passed on to children). In interviews, people who followed their parents’ career paths described it as speaking the same language.

Certain aptitudes may be inherited. Families also have their own cultures, reflected in how they value spending time — whether making things by hand, achieving academically or filling the home with art and music. People described flirtations with other careers as teenage rebellions before settling into a parent’s occupation.