
If you have never had a kid before, you probably know less than you think about raising one. There are few realms of life in which that distinction becomes more poignant than childrearing. If you have declarative knowledge, you can explain it if you have procedural knowledge, you can do it.

Procedural knowledge is the more practical, hands-on, how-to kind. It’s the kind of knowledge that serves you well on Jeopardy or other trivia games if you have enough of it. When you possess declarative knowledge, you know about a thing.

Wherever your small pockets of knowledge about life may reside, most can be sorted into buckets of declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge.
