I had this basic idea as pertains to having kids...through my own experience, I came to think of the saying that parents have eyes in the back of their head comes from having to predict what kids will do. I've walked out of a room they were in, and it clicked that they were going to get into trouble/do something self-destructive with what was in the room, or that they'd be heading toward something breakable, etc. I've walked back into the room to catch them just in time.

So my thought is that having eyes in the back of your head is being able to think about 5 seconds into the future for what the kids will do.

Dave