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 Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:34 am
Graceangel hey guys.... um, i hope it's ok for me to say this here.... but, my gaia family is hosting a major halloween event... on oct 30th. we're doing it the day before so noone has to miss out on the gaia halloween stuff.... but, it's pretty much all day. some members have already agreed to help me with something there. wink But, i am inviting all the guilds i'm in. there are contests that are gonna go on. and, it's a costume event. so... try to come dressed up and and stuff... and when i say dressed up, i mean something you wouldn't normally wear on gaia. unless you're like dirt poor.. then we'd still like you to come... but, what i mean is... if you're a wolf or a fox every day.. maybe be a cat.. or... the hat shop has loads of freaking masks.. just throw on black clothes and a mask or something. sweatdrop That sounds fun Grace. I probably won't be there though cause me and my hubby are having our annual Halloween party/event thingy IRL on the 30th. smile I'm sure it'll be fun though.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:52 pm
Here's something kind of interesting that my hubby read in an article just now for one of his classes. I didn't know exactly what it was talking about but I can guess: Quote: If there was one thing we were wary of it was what Kaplan calls the law of the instrument which he formulates as "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding," the point being the easy temptation to master an instrument and use it indisccriminately in research. I got a great laugh out of the part about the child with the hammer. It was a great mental image followed by one of academic researchers running around with figurative hammers.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:05 pm
Wow! This thread has reached 100 pages!
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:51 pm
KasumiAngel Here's something kind of interesting that my hubby read in an article just now for one of his classes. I didn't know exactly what it was talking about but I can guess: Quote: If there was one thing we were wary of it was what Kaplan calls the law of the instrument which he formulates as "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding," the point being the easy temptation to master an instrument and use it indisccriminately in research. I got a great laugh out of the part about the child with the hammer. It was a great mental image followed by one of academic researchers running around with figurative hammers. I'm unsure of the pretense of the article, but what it refers to by Kaplan's law is that if you give a child a tool, with no prior knowledge of its EXACT intent, he/she will use the tool on everything in a way to interact and experiment with said tool in his/her environment. You can't give them a tool/toy and expect them NOT to use it in this fashion. Take one of those bright ball popping push-cart/lawnmower toys. After a little experimentation, they will realize that when you push it, it pops and makes the balls in the bubble bounce. Soon they will learn they can pull it too. They will drive it everywhere to see what surfaces work (rug floor, tile floor, wood floor, grass, stairs, etc). Its the very nature of a child to do such things. On a bit less serious note... when I was a wee toddler, most other toddlers had action figures, or stuffed animals, etc that they brought everywhere with them. I had a plastic red hammer 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:10 pm
Heh, I think anyone with children doesn't need that "law" to tell them how kids' thinking skills work!
Sorry, I think psychology is quack, there's an opposing theory and law that goes to every single thing in life! xd
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:55 pm
I was just clarifying for Ms. Kasumi, in case she was still vague about the matter is all, nothing more sad
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:11 am
Not really vague. I was mostly amused that some academic out there actually put that in a paper... usually they stick to more dry metaphors and comparisons...
It could just be me... I spend way too much time any more reading this stuff. I really need a break from it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:05 am
For some reason, the talk about psychology and children and such, has led me to remember a short story a friend of mine told me about her son.
She had two daughters and one son. She and her husband weren't big fans guns and war toys and the like for their son, so instead, they got him peaceful play toys and dolls. They also prohibited him from watching any type of fighting cartoons. They did their best to raise him 'anti-aggresive'.
One day, during lunch, as the children sat at the table eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, said mom turned her back to put things away, and upon looking back, finds that her son has bitten the sandwich into the form of a gun and was aiming it around the room 'shooting bad guys'.
She laughed as she told me this and said, "So much for that.".
xd
What I think is cool though, is that they didn't completely freak out. They just accepted defeat and let it all ride. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:28 pm
I think kids are both products of their environment as well as a little bit of their own personal wiring, at least to the point that they themselves determine (consciously or not) how they will react to a situation. This is my theory at least. There are tons of people out there who have their own ideas about how kids work. ...
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:22 pm
I agree with you Kasumi!!
As for the guns things, it's really weird how that works. I remember watching this study being done on 20/20 about kids who never were allowed to play with guns and those who parents had educated them on guns, telling them if they saw one to tell them.
The study put an unloaded gun in the toy box and both groups of kids pulled it out and started playing with it and didn't tell an adult.
It's a weird thing, I tell ya.
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:30 pm
There are so many studies on what kids do under certain circumstances out there. In my educational psychology class a few years ago, I read a study that said that if you put child and his/her mother in a large field with the mother sitting in a chair in the center and the child being given free reign of the field that no child would stray more than 50 yards away from the parent. xp They should have put my youngest in that study. He has no fear and happily wanders off without much of a care as to where we are. sweatdrop It makes it rather difficult to keep up with him. We've considered using leashes for when we know we're going to be in crowds where we might lose sight of him.
On a similar note, a toddler in our church actually managed to get the front door to his home open, went outside, out of the front yard and just wandered off; they finally found him almost a mile from home several hours later completey unperterbed... His mom was of course in a quite different state of mind.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:00 am
sad sweatdrop i hate nightmares....
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:54 am
I babysat for some very religious people. Their kids weren't allowed to watch certain things. Mostly they were only allowed to watch their Veggie Tales tapes and some disney cartoons. I got admonished because I let the 6 year old girl watch SailorMoon one day (US dubbed DIC sailor Moon).
Anyway, I thought it was too funny, because she didn't let them watch the "violent" cartoons. But those two kids would wallop on eachother playing David and Goliath or Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Anything where there was a bad guy and a good guy.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:59 am
but.... There is bad guys in Sailor Moon....?.. COOLER ONES! xd i dont get some people... disney cartoons are as violent, if not more so that most childrens Anime.
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:33 pm
I'm just not one of those censoring type of parents when it comes to TV. As crazy as it sounds, Logan LOVES his horror flicks. I hate them and won't watch them, but my husband loves them. House of 1000 Corpses was too creepy for me, but it's one movie Logan will watch and be so quiet and cuddle with his daddy. He's a hoot.
I think Sailor Moon is an awesome cartoon. I mean, I admit, I rather liked the bad guys!
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