If you're not a tiger parent, what animal parent are you? Maybe a mongoose or something? How about a rabbit?

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Stephen Dubner. And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, do brady kids become brady adults? When I was growing up, if anybody asked me, who are the popular kids?

I would say, well, Meredith is popular.

And which prison is she in today?

Also, what makes a good friendship?

We remember the same commercial for aluminum siding.

Angela, I have a question here from a listener.

Would you entertain that?

Of course.

This is a listener named Sydney,

and she writes to say,

it's an ongoing debate I have with my husband.

We don't have kids.

But do shh-y kids make shi-adults? She continues, I don't like to. But do shi kids make shi adults?

She continues, I don't like to be around brady kids,

but is there any research that brats actually make worse adults?

Or does society mold them into likable humans?

So, Angela, I find Sydney's question compelling,

not just on the specifics of whether, quote,

shi kids become, quote, shi adults, whatever that might mean, but really the bigger question of how much of our adult selves was evident and perhaps foreordained by our child selves.

I think it's a great question, and it is one of the big questions in all of social science.

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