Yeyow

Yeyow

Categorization further emerges in a three-year old…

Robert: You know, besides his categorization skills, I've noticed he's also getting better at recognizing colors on those toy vehicles.

Laura: Yes, he's been telling me which ones are "yeyow" for yellow, “boo” for blue and "ed" for red. It's like he's discovering a whole new world of colors.

Robert: It's fascinating how their perception of colors evolves. I remember when he used to call everything "yeyow."

Laura: And his fine motor skills seem to be improving too. He's quite good at pushing his toy cars and trucks around.

Robert: He's getting the hang of it. And I've noticed he's also starting to build simple structures with his blocks, like little garages for his vehicles.

Laura: That's great! It sounds like he's developing his spatial awareness and problem-solving abilities. Who would have thought stacking blocks could be so educational?

Robert: Kids can turn almost anything into a learning opportunity, can't they? And I love how he's starting to ask "why" questions about everything.

Laura: Yes, the never-ending "why" phase. It's a sign that he's curious and trying to understand the world around him even better.

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Voice-over

Watching cognitive development in a child is a journey of surprises.

These are these and those are those

These are these...

Categorization emerges in a three-year old…
Robert: Have you noticed when he’s playing with toy cars, he organizes them into groups of cars, trucks and buses? 
Laura: Yes. He says, "Leaz are leaz and loze are loze."
Robert: His categorization system. A cognitive skill.
Laura: Trying to make sense of the world in his own way. That’s our little organizer.
Robert: He's starting to notice the differences between cars, trucks, and buses.
Laura: Seems our job is to encourage his curiosity and help him learn and grow. Our responsibility as parents.
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Voice-over
Some kids succeed in life without any parents or even much in the way of parental management. But mostly nudging by parents is a plus.

The Appeal of Falconer's Olivia

A paean but is it lit crit...

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Kylie (6): I want to visit Venice.

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Elderberry (70): Olivia wrote a guide on what to do there.

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Kylie (6): Read it already. I’m going to follow her footsteps.

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Olivia Goes to Venice

Elderberry (70): Sighing bridges to San Marco?

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Kylie (6): Zack same route.

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Elderberry (70): What’s the attraction of Olivia?

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Kylie (6): I like all her books. She likes to bargain. Play tricks. She’s funny.

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Elderberry (70): Pulling a brick out of San Marco was a bit of extreme mischief.

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Kylie (6): Olivia’s extreme.

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Elderberry (70): Hmm, maybe she appeals to the extreme in all of us.

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Voice-over

I’m an Olivia fan. Who wouldn’t be, whether you were six or seventy.

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The Cat in the Hat Somewhat Deconstructed

Collaborating on a children’s book...

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Roy: A story about the weather...like...

“The snow swirls about,

Hear how the wind blows.

Rhythm and Rhyme

We sit by the fire

Toasting marshmallows.”

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Theodor: Even simpler...

“The sun did not shine.

It was too wet to play.

We sat in the house

All that cold, cold wet day.”

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Voice-over

Start with the beats, five for the first line, six for the second.

Character and costume off-beat, rhyme every second line.

Throw in a bit of reduplication.

Cat in the Hat overthrows Dick and Jane.

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Harry Potter as a cultural orientation text

A Japanese returns to Japan from six months at Cambridge…

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Cholmondeley: How did you prepare for it?

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Murakami: Since I don’t speak or read English well and I needed to be ready to answer questions at high table, I used Harry Potter as my cultural orientation.

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Cholmondeley: JK Rowling, eh?

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Murakami: You think a little too easy to prepare for six months on sabbatical?

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Cholmondeley: Well, you might have done worse. Like wading through the repetitive plots of Enid Blyton. There again, you could have taken on the

challenge of reading Roald Dahl.

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“Words are in my not-so-humble opinion, the most inexhaustible form of magic we have, capable both of inflicting injury and remedying it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Three best-selling children’s authors in the Top Ten, all English. Comparing their merits is difficult; Enid Blyton wins total sales, JK Rowling wins speed of popularity ascendancy. Roald Dahl wins the creativity award. But as cultural orientation texts?

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Children Asking "Why?"

Boy goading his mother…

Boy: Why do you have so many pumpkins?

Mother: To make pumpkin… oh, to make pumpkin marmalade.

Boy: Why did Franklin fly a kite in an electrical storm?

Mother: He wanted to become… to become a lightbulb.

Boy: Why did Lady Godiva ride on a horse with no clothes?

Mother: She wanted to… become a chocolate.

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Voice-over

Children’s "why" questions sometimes never end. Some children are merely curious. Others use the “why” question to provoke. Parents need reserves of inventiveness and even flippancy to preserve their sang froid and to send the child away to puzzle over why they answered as they did. Or perhaps ask, “What do you think?”
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