Several months ago I wrote a weird 15-minute thing about a woman traveling south in the winter. Then it bugged me until I worked out a more coherent background for it. This is part of that background.
( Ata of the Bloody Hand )
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In other news, this morning I did my naturalistic observation of children for my Child Psych project. Except it kind of got skewed because the kids kept coming over and talking to me, so I wasn't a neutral observer. Oh well. I think I got a lot of good stuff anyway.
And man, 5-year-olds really don't think the same way adults do. I can't reconstruct my own thinking back that far; I can only get to about age 7 or 8 most of the time. What little I do remember suggests that I was in some ways weirdly precocious -- read on a 2nd or 3rd grade level in kindergarten -- but in others right in line with everyone else -- not quite grasping the rules of certain activities, and being unable to quietly line up and follow group instructions.
Also, I couldn't tie my own shoes. (I learned that halfway through kindergarten -- they came untied during class, and I reached down and tied them, though I'd been completely unable to do that the same morning. I learn like that a lot -- the eureka moment.)
( Ata of the Bloody Hand )
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In other news, this morning I did my naturalistic observation of children for my Child Psych project. Except it kind of got skewed because the kids kept coming over and talking to me, so I wasn't a neutral observer. Oh well. I think I got a lot of good stuff anyway.
And man, 5-year-olds really don't think the same way adults do. I can't reconstruct my own thinking back that far; I can only get to about age 7 or 8 most of the time. What little I do remember suggests that I was in some ways weirdly precocious -- read on a 2nd or 3rd grade level in kindergarten -- but in others right in line with everyone else -- not quite grasping the rules of certain activities, and being unable to quietly line up and follow group instructions.
Also, I couldn't tie my own shoes. (I learned that halfway through kindergarten -- they came untied during class, and I reached down and tied them, though I'd been completely unable to do that the same morning. I learn like that a lot -- the eureka moment.)