Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond
A senior editor of science and technology reporting at TIME magazine, Jeffrey Kluger has written books on a wide range of science subjects, including the Polio vaccine, Apollo 13 and the effect of sibling relationships. Full bio
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to change my life in one small way,
את חיי בדבר קטן אחד,
the opening of my speech.
הפתיחה של ההרצאה שלי
to engage or re-engage
people in your lives:
life-affirming thing to do,
battling alcoholism,
when he was just 34 years old.
is that his last name was Roosevelt.
ששם משפחתו היה רוזוולט.
get past the comparisons
to come a little bit easier.
Bobby would smile,
כל כך דומה למותו של אחיו,
to have been relieved of his.
that effects us more profoundly,
קשים יותר,
עצובים יותר,
with our brothers and sisters.
and a governor, famously griped,
to my older brothers,"
לשני האחים הגדולים שלי"
were somehow responsible
and the messy divorce
והגרושים המכוערים
than all of these things,
a thing of abiding love.
של אהבה מגינה
come along too late.
who are with us
there may be nothing
more powerfully
with our sisters and brothers.
it's true for you, too.
on the left, was eight years old.
and my brother Bruce was four.
ואחינו ברוס היה בן 4.
"השפעת האחים"
that it might be a very good idea
שזה יכול להיות רעיון טוב מאוד,
in a fuse cabinet in our playroom.
של חדר המשחקים שלנו.
trying to keep him safe.
to being disturbed on Saturday mornings.
would be like on Saturday mornings
את הבקרים של שבת,
when the youngest one was born,
disturbed on a Saturday morning
form of a corporal punishment,
was within arms' reach.
but we did get hit,
אבל מידי פעם חטפנו,
scatter-and-hide drill.
the footsteps coming,
under the couch,
in the playroom,
a window-seat toy chest,
שעמדה תחת החלון,
Bruce inside the fuse box.
Alan Shepard's space capsule,
fooled by this ruse.
years that I began to think
to squeeze a four-year-old
un-screwable high-voltage fuses.
even through those unhappy times,
הלא שמחים האלו,
that was clear and hard and fine:
for the bond we shared.
than we ever could as individuals.
to call on that strength.
attention to the sibling bond.
you have just one father
you have one spouse for life.
אז בני הזוג הם לכל החיים.
none of that uniqueness.
a kind of household commodity.
their shelves with inventory,
את המדפים במוצרים.
egg and economics.
זרעון, ביצית ומצב כלכלי.
כדאי להמשיך לאגור.
you may as well keep stocking.
with that arrangement,
as possible into the next generation.
these same issues, too,
of dealing with things.
להתמודד עם הדברים.
will take a good look at them
תבחן אותן טוב טוב,
on the presumably heartier chick
שאפשר לנחש שיהיה חזק יותר.
all of her chicks to hatch
האפרוחים שלה לבקוע
fight it out with the little ones,
נלחמים בקטנים,
to grow up in peace.
little outward set of pointing teeth,
שפונות החוצה,
for the choicest nursing spots.
as second-class citizens
had learned all they could
mothers and other relationships,
temperamental dark matter
כל מה שאנחנו יכולים
selling points are
someone's the pretty one,
someone's the smart one.
is a high-school football player --
brother, you'd know he was not --
הייתם יודעים שהוא לא,
football player, too
in my family for doing that.
במשפחה שלי, על זה.
council president
of the attention in that area.
the identification process,
will be applauded in the home.
יתקבלו בהערכה בבית הזה.
with one another in athletics
in the kitchen with the help,
עם המשרתים,
with the family.
fought so hard to compete
כל כך על הנצחון,
in a bicycle race around the house
costing John 28 stitches.
no matter how much they admit it.
כמה ההורים מכחישים.
covering in the book "The Sibling Effect,"
טיים וגם בספר שלי: אפקט האחים"
and 65 percent of mothers
for at least one child.
the keyword is "exhibit."
a better job of concealing things.
of all parents have a favorite,
מעדיפים אחד הילדים,
feelings of favoritism.
שהם מרגישים העדפה לילד מסויים
wiring is at work.
on the familial assembly line.
ב"פס היצור המשפחתי".
of investing dollars, calories
כל ההשקעה, הכסף, המזון,
the second born comes along,
it's what corporations call "sunk costs,"
בעולם העסקי "השקעה קיימת",
"I'm going to lean to the Mac OS X
"אני אטה לכיוון הגרסה נוכחית
in a couple of years."
both here and in the book found that,
for a father is the last-born daughter.
היא בת הזקונים.
for a mother is the firstborn son.
what the Freudians would have told us
שהפרוידיאנים היו אומרים
are habitually wrapped around
as the father of two girls,
reproductive narcissism at work.
you temperamentally,
who is a businessman will just melt
איש עסקים קשוח, פשוט ימס
with a tough-as-nails worldview.
תפיסת העולם המושחזת.
will go gooey over her son the poet.
לגמרי על בנה המשורר.
I covered for TIME,
שסיקרתי למגזין הטיים.
began looking at this,
certain temperamental templates
did crack this field,
to be bigger and healthier
גדולים יותר ובריאים יותר,
they got on food
vaccinated more reliably
follow-up visits to doctors
say this as a second-born --
IQ advantage over second borns
יותר מהנולדים שניים,
advantage over later borns,
נקודות על פני הבאים אחריהם.
firstborns get from mom and dad,
שהבכורים קיבלו מאבא ואמא.
to mentor the younger kids.
הזדמנות לחנוך את אחיהם הקטנים.
are likelier to be CEOs,
גבוה יותר להפוך למנהלים בכירים,
than other kids are.
with a whole different set of challenges.
עם סט אתגרים שונה לגמרי.
of getting eaten alive,
what are called "low-power skills" --
שנקרא "יכולות של חלשים"
in someone else's head,
בראש של מישהו אחר,
the punch before it lands.
לפני שהיא נוחתת.
that comes in handy,
is a very hard person to slug.
that over the course of history,
במשפחות מאוד גדולות.
quite as sweet a deal.
לא קיבלו עסקה כל כך טובה.
for recognition in the home.
raising our hands
is getting called on.
to take a little longer
issues associated with that,
גם נושאים הקשורים לביטחון עצמי.
that I've been asked to do TED,
about these things right now.
בקשר לנושאים האלו כרגע.
is that they also tend to develop
הם שהם נוטים לפתח
outside the home.
מחוץ לבית
from something of a disadvantage,
weren't met as well in the home.
that play out over favoritism,
that's performance art.
a lot more people in your home
יותר אנשים בבית שלכם
a discrete one-on-one relationship
מערכת יחסים אחד על אחד
there are six dyads:
ושני ילדים, יש שש מערכות יחסים כאלו.
עם ילד א' ואחת עם ילד ב'.
between the kids themselves.
looks very chilly but it's real.
in your household,
there are ten discrete dyads.
10 מערכות יחסים שונות
never mind the sweetness here --
בלי לשים לב לכמה הם מתוקים,
had 55 different relationships.
היו בה 55 מערכות יחסים שונות.
to have 11 children of his own,
for all sibling fights is property.
בין אחים, הוא רכוש.
of the fights among small children
ילדים קטנים
if it's very noisy,
come into the world
of projecting their very limited power
המאוד מוגבל,
they can call their own.
that very erasable line,
and that's what happens.
among children is the idea of fairness,
זה הרעיון של הוגנות,
"But that's unfair!"
"אבל זה לא פייר!"
of right and wrong,
fairness is in the human genome?
הצורך בצדק בגנים האנושיים?
that processes disgust,
of somebody being cheated
שמישהו מרומה
לבשר מקולקל.
Bernie Madoff, is unpopular?
ברני מאידוף כל כך שנוא?
total-immersion exercise for life.
avoidance and conflict resolution,
ופתרון קונפליקטים
caring, compromise,
and much more important,
aren’t they adorable? --
talking late into the night,
מדברות עמוק לתוך לילה
listened to my brothers and me talking,
but usually I don't.
I am not part of,
that can and should go on
traveling companion,
and travel it on their own.
the sine qua non of a happy life;
relationships are fatally broken
הרוסות לגמרי
for the sanity of everybody involved.
have shown themselves
and comradeship skills
through classmates.
making the most of those bonds
ולא להפיק את המירב מהקשרים האלו,
and are fixable, fix them.
a thousand acres of fertile farmland
זה כאילו יש לכם אלפי דונמים של אדמה פוריה
at the supermarket,
את האוכל שלכם בסופרמרקט.
allowing to lie fallow.
and it plays for keeps.
of the time we have here.
היבול הכי שופע של הזמן שלנו עלי אדמות.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jeffrey Kluger - Senior Editor, TIME MagazineA senior editor of science and technology reporting at TIME magazine, Jeffrey Kluger has written books on a wide range of science subjects, including the Polio vaccine, Apollo 13 and the effect of sibling relationships.
Why you should listen
Jeffrey Kluger is a senior editor at TIME magazine, where he has worked since 1996. In 1994, he co-authored Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the Tom Hanks film Apollo 13. His book about Jonas Salk and the Polio vaccine, Splendid Solution, was published in 2006. Three years later, he published Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and Why Complex Things Can Be Made Simple). His latest book, The Sibling Effect, came out in 2011.
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