- What images of childhood come to mind when you look at these photos?
- If you have children or grandchildren, what memories do these pictures awaken?
- What makes you laugh?
I do not have any children of my own or grandchildren but I have a host of nieces and nephews who I love dearly. The photos, especially the first one, reminded me of late nights staying up with them as newborns and catching naps in between feedings. For some reason it's hard for me to find a movie that makes me laugh, but life itself is very funny at times. Perhaps, I'd rather laugh then lose my mind at times because the most ironic things happen. My nieces make me laugh all the time. One of my youngest nieces , Bri (3 years old) looked at an ant hill this weekend and asked her dad,
"what that dad?
That's an ant's house Bri, he answered
Where's their car?" Bri asked.
Everyone laughed.
1 comment:
Wonderful example of the human capacity to map-by-analogy from one context to another; analogical mapping is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows us to think and create and invent and survive. As soon as someone gave Bri the concept of "house" in relation to the ant hill, Bri was able to retreive the concept of car from her already-existing associational network with "house" and map the car concept to the new "house" concept and ask, well, where is the car in this new context ... because, as everyone (even Bri) knows quite well, car goes with house. She used what she knew of house in an ordinary context and mapped it onto the new context of the ant hill. This is just one of the ways, and a powerful one, in which just talking with a child is a powerful force in the child's development. Keep it up.
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