amplifiers

I heard an interesting one during a vox pop on 96.5 at the ecca yesterday. A young dad was being interviewed because he had probably the youngest child at the ecca with him. His daughter was two weeks old and he'd brought her out to get the ecca into her. Pretty sure it was his daughter, I could be wrong... but anyways he had three kids with him at the time.

Now 96.5 being the radio station that it is, the conversation largely revolved around the family and some question, I think it was "What's the best thing about having kids" or some other suitably pat question lead to the answer of "Kids are amplifiers", sure they're pretty loud at times but that wasn't what he meant. This bloke was actually really switched on when he said this... kids are relationship amplifiers, he explained, if you have a great relationship they'll make it even better and bring more joy, but if your relationship isn't the best at the time it'll show up all the cracks and the nasty side.

Guess it's like a comment I left on James Macpherson's blog where he was talking about character. Relationships are the same, it's not until they're under the pump that you really see what they're made of.