One thing parents know that most non-parents don't: how much more kids can understand than you'd guess. You can talk to a 9 or 10 year old almost like an adult and they'll understand most of it.
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Occasionally people accuse me of inventing the conversations with my kids that I post on Twitter. What this tells me (besides that they're super nasty) is that these people don't have kids.
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Incidentally, I don't talk to my kids like peers just for their sakes. I'm not trying to turn them into little prodigies. I talk to them this way because it's much more interesting than talking down to them.
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if you talk to people like they are X, they will act like they are X. This is true of children, teammates, directs and the guy at the DMV... You set the ceiling for their participation with how you engage them.
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Agree. Kids understand more than they are given credit for. Speaking to them, rather than AT them, inspires confidence in them and helps them grow.
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Same here. It’s made them much better and equipped to observe the world around them; in addition, they’ve been raised on 3 different continents (deliberate choice on our part) which helps as well.
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my mom is the same, we talk the same way since I can remember the difference between adults and kids in the majority of cases is attention span, unless they see activity as a game
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I have no evidence whatsoever but am a full believer in talking to kids like adults
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I 100% believe that your kid conversations are authentic. I also 100% believe that your kids are exceptionally bright and hilarious.
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Yep. At this rate, we might have to rethink the blank slate hypothesis
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unfortunately I think there are a lot of parents who don't realize how much their kids can understand because parents seem to have a way of conditioning their kids to not say what they think, because it gets the kids in trouble
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kids also tend to have simple interesting logic- like problem solving with kids is kind of fun because the way they see things is unique
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