Playing a game in the backyard with my five year old daughter and she takes a full swing and hits me across the shin with a wood stick (kind of like a hockey stick). Damn it hurt. She looked me square in the eye and said "it's part of the game Dad, it will make you tougher". The wisdom of kids..........
Fun coversations with 4 year olds
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It's fun to hear how a child justifies something that maybe completely incorrect. In psychology, we had the opportunity to test kids at various ages to see how they responded to various challenges according to Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
Examples would be the classic experiment regarding conservation, where you put the same amount of liquid in two glasses, one tall and skinny and one short and fat. The levels look different. Depending on the age of the child, they will tell you that the amounts in either glass are different (the taller having more). Even if you pour the liquid from the tall glass into the short glass in front of them, they will respond the same way. But it's fun to listen to them justify their response.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg]Piaget - Stage 2 - Preoperational - Lack of Conservation - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJdcXA1KH8&NR=1]Piaget - Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive Reasoning - YouTube[/ame]
"No, it won't!" The kid's right. It's ridiculous that a feather would break a glass.
Examples would be the classic experiment regarding conservation, where you put the same amount of liquid in two glasses, one tall and skinny and one short and fat. The levels look different. Depending on the age of the child, they will tell you that the amounts in either glass are different (the taller having more). Even if you pour the liquid from the tall glass into the short glass in front of them, they will respond the same way. But it's fun to listen to them justify their response.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg]Piaget - Stage 2 - Preoperational - Lack of Conservation - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJdcXA1KH8&NR=1]Piaget - Stage 4 - Formal - Deductive Reasoning - YouTube[/ame]
"No, it won't!" The kid's right. It's ridiculous that a feather would break a glass.
My son was three and he got money from his grandmother for his birthday. We put half in his piggy bank and I told him he could buy something at the store. So he decided he wanted a dump truck. Only being three the p was silent and the tr at that time sounded a lot like an f. So when he said dump truck it sounded like dumb f**** --- So we are in Wal-Mart and he is in the cart and we are going down the isle, he is excited asking in a loud voice where are the dumb f***** , where are the dumb f**** , one of the old dudes working in the store says to him, "Little man, they are everywhere in this place" I laughed all the way home.
I live in a typical small town. You have to pay attention at the intersections. Could be stop signs, could be yield signs, could be uncontrolled. Small town folks can be friendly to a fault, and often the folks with the right-of-way will yield it. They're trying to be nice, but it tends to gum up the flow of traffic.
So one day while driving my (then) 4-year old to pre-school and being frustrated by this, I exclaimed, "Well, looks like the bad drivers are out today."
Without missing a beat, my son asked, "Are they Hawkeyes, Dad?"
I rewrote my will the next day. He gets everything.
So one day while driving my (then) 4-year old to pre-school and being frustrated by this, I exclaimed, "Well, looks like the bad drivers are out today."
Without missing a beat, my son asked, "Are they Hawkeyes, Dad?"
I rewrote my will the next day. He gets everything.
My 2yo likes to imitate people when they sneeze. she says "blessshoo, blessshoo, I sneezed!" The other day she sneezed for real and thought that it was the coolest thing in the world. She then sat there for the next 30 minutes trying to make herself sneeze again.
My 2 year old doesn't really have any memorable things she's said yet - half the time I'm just trying to figure out what she is saying. However, I can tell she has a lot going on upstairs, especially when she gets this devious look in her eyes. She'll start looking out the corners of her eyes back and forth, grin forming slowly as if she's plotting something. Just like her daddy.
Anyway, she pulled the "sweetest" thing last night (or at least mommy thought so). You have to realize that my wife's feet are so sensitive that just implying that you are going to tickle her causes her to break down laughing uncontrollably. I just have to twitch my finger in that general tickling motion and she can't help herself. The fun part is my daughter is showing signs of being as ticklish as my wife. Even more fun is she's often a co-conspirator in daddy tickling mommy's feet. Even moreso is she goes after mommy's feet when daddy has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, my daughter was being stubborn in getting ready for bed last night. I wanted her to give me a hug and kiss goodnight, and instead was hiding from daddy. I said to her "come give daddy hug and kiss goodnight or I tickle mommy's feet!" Mommy begins laughing uncontrollably as usual, because she doesn't know what our daughter is going to do at this point. Our daughter surprises both of us at this point and shouts out "NO, NO DADDY!!!", but instead of coming over to daddy to give me my hug and kiss, she runs most of the way over, stops, and sticks out her foot, willing to take the tickling herself so mommy doesn't have to suffer. Never saw that coming, but it was one of the cute things she has ever done.
Anyway, she pulled the "sweetest" thing last night (or at least mommy thought so). You have to realize that my wife's feet are so sensitive that just implying that you are going to tickle her causes her to break down laughing uncontrollably. I just have to twitch my finger in that general tickling motion and she can't help herself. The fun part is my daughter is showing signs of being as ticklish as my wife. Even more fun is she's often a co-conspirator in daddy tickling mommy's feet. Even moreso is she goes after mommy's feet when daddy has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, my daughter was being stubborn in getting ready for bed last night. I wanted her to give me a hug and kiss goodnight, and instead was hiding from daddy. I said to her "come give daddy hug and kiss goodnight or I tickle mommy's feet!" Mommy begins laughing uncontrollably as usual, because she doesn't know what our daughter is going to do at this point. Our daughter surprises both of us at this point and shouts out "NO, NO DADDY!!!", but instead of coming over to daddy to give me my hug and kiss, she runs most of the way over, stops, and sticks out her foot, willing to take the tickling herself so mommy doesn't have to suffer. Never saw that coming, but it was one of the cute things she has ever done.
My son, about 2 1/2 at the time (holding up empty pop can): Is this beer?
Wife: No, it’s pop.
son: Can you show me beer?
Wife: No, eat your cheese.
Son: Eat my cheese so I can have beer?
Wife: No, you can’t have beer!
Son: Oh. Can I have bubbles?
Wife: No, it’s pop.
son: Can you show me beer?
Wife: No, eat your cheese.
Son: Eat my cheese so I can have beer?
Wife: No, you can’t have beer!
Son: Oh. Can I have bubbles?
My wife received an invitation to attend an awards ceremony at our first-grade grandson's school because he was receiving an award. The award was the "Honesty" award. Afterward she asked him what he had done to receive the "Honesty" award. He replied, "honestly, Mima, I don't know".
