A thing about a thing

[laurahendrix]

One of the most challenging things about working with kids, I think, is figuring out what they could possibly be trying to say to you at any given moment. They just can't articulate things yet. I'm not saying it's not cute, or even that it's frustrating to deal with. More that it's a terribly difficult (and often rewarding) communication

Comments

[aphextwins]

Wow! What an interesting insight into a fully developed and equipped mental processing unit ill-equipped with developed tools for complex communication. It is a far greater exercise in creativity in expression than we are accustomed to. I guess you get to be creative with your interpretation as well!

ditto on the M's, kid.

[lydiajane]

oh geez. Kids are dub. Do you know Piaget's Stages of Development? They're contested and rightly so, but I still think they're useful when talking to those little weirdos.

Soething fun about a lot of your kids is they probably can't conceive of conservation of nuber, ass and weight. That never ceases to ause e. You can explain/deonstrate that the tall thin glass and the short squat glass have the sae aount of chocolate ilk in the all fucking day long. Does not copute.

Re: ditto on the M's, kid.

[the_bache]

Nuber, ass and weight! HAHA!

Re: ditto on the M's, kid.

[enjoy]

"Piaget's work on children's intellectual development owed much to his early studies of water snails"

hahaha

[poogus]

I want something, too.
I don't know what it is, but I have want - big, big want!

Have you heard the new song that you are writing, "Big, Big Want"?

[laurahendrix]

I have not heard it yet, but I look forward to that! Please let me know when I'm done with it, so that I can sing it! I want to!