learning is a deeply social activity. What you see in toy preferences is the social subtext of our culture.
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my wife and I homeschool our kids, don't have a TV, and see few stereotypical preferences that we can't trace to our own influence.
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with exp with 4 yo f and 3 yo m, toy preferences are certainly learned. Limiting screen time is key. Online branding has influence.
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although kids observation of their peer's choices and actions is also strong influence. Spend more time playing with them yourself.
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'boy' is a gender pronoun, so your statement here is really a tautology.
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don't mn to snark. I mean to point out that by first specifying the gender you're unwittingly revealing the "teaching."
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Perfect situation to apply the behavioral teachings from https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553380397/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_D4OvybC25SH3N …
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Which ones? There are men who cook and sew...
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Better words than “learned” or “innate” in this situation: “Network Effects”
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When you become a parent you learn how much is innate
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start by avoiding toys in general, but especially those in marketing-saturated packaging.
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you can probably control the home environment for that objective, but not the inputs/queues at school and while with friends.
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@joelgrus wouldn't it be easier to exploit that quality if it were hard-wired rather than learned?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's nature and nurture. People don't like admitting how much nature is involved though
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I don't know. There seems to be an inherent desire to throw hit and smash no matter what toy you give them.
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Have no good answer for you... grad school convinced me we know a lot less about ed. than we pretend we do.
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Your intuition is prob. as good a first-order guide as any.
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