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Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told
Hugh Pickens writes "New cognitive research shows that 3-year-olds neither plan for the future nor live completely in the present, but instead call up the past as they need it. 'There is a lot of work in the field of cognitive development that focuses on how kids are basically little versions of adults trying to do the same things adults do, but they're just not as good at it yet. What we show here is they are doing something completely different,' says professor Yuko Munakata at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Munakata's team used a computer game and a setup that measures the diameter of the pupil of the eye to determine mental effort to study the cognitive abilities of 3-and-a-half-year-olds and 8-year-olds. The research concluded that while everything you tell toddlers seems to go in one ear and out the other, the study found that toddlers listen, but then store the information for later use. 'For example, let's say it's cold outside and you tell your 3-year-old to go get his jacket out of his bedroom and get ready to go outside,' says doctoral student Christopher Chatham. 'You might expect the child to plan for the future, think "OK it's cold outside so the jacket will keep me warm." But what we suggest is that this isn't what goes on in a 3-year-old's brain. Rather, they run outside, discover that it is cold, and then retrieve the memory of where their jacket is, and then they go get it.'"
I don't know what cognitive deficits you suffer from, but I didn't even talk about parents. I was talking about a general understanding of the human brain and how it develops.
I suppose you're the type that denies global warming is at all occurring because "it shore feels cold here, Jethro!"
Yea I agree with the other poster. My 65 year old uncle doesn't understand such things.
Some people literally never grow up. that or they regress do to drugs and alcohol abuse. Actually it might just be the later. drugs, and alcohol retard a person to the point they retreat into their 3 year old mindset.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
They learn faster when you punctuate their lessons with the back of your hand.
Objectively, however, the punisher is just conditioning him- or herself to hit the kid more.
Man I wish I had mod points for you! Can you point to any articles that back this claim up? I'd love to send them to some of my Bible Believing Christian acquaintances who think that hitting their kids is a good thing. It wouldn't convince them, because I know from experience that their certain aspects of their belief system is impervious to facts, but it might make them uncomfortable, and less critical of non-violent parenting.
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
What a bunch of idiots. Three year olds don't have strong cognitive responses to language. Don't you remember being three? I remember being in the womb (especially when the water broke, hard to forget that one). Talk about a different mode of thought. As long as people think that the way they think is the only way to think, they'll never really figure anything out, beyond social rote.
Doesn't apply to me. I have better things to do than chase after and cajole the little snotlings.
The media likes to portray childrearing as nothing but Precious Kodak Moments when any parent with a drop of honesty will tell you that it's anything but. It's nothing but tedious, thankless work.
Oh, and did I mention that children are one of the main tools The Man uses to keep you in line? Can't risk getting fired from your job when Sprogulina needs braces, can you?
Parenthood: Just Say No.