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Skriven 2006-05-22 16:46:12 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton
Ärende: A Different Drummer...
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Ardith Hinton wrote James Bradley on 05-20-06 22:36

 AH>           Oops!  No doubt you meet all kinds in
 AH> the music business.  I enjoyed dance gigs...

Two things I noticed the more I traveled with the job. People are the same
wherever you go, yet distinctive somehow. That's the best I can explain it. You
could always spot the tough guy, and the timid in a minute, but it was the
intangible I found most interesting.

Listen, I have to post this as it stands. I'll try again to get to the rest
later. Saturday, I bought two vehicles at auction, (One being a beater truck.)
and I have tons of yard work to sort. I think I'm going to have another
absentee stretch again this summer.


 AH>           He didn't use the word "correct"
 AH> there... but I used it the way I've heard other
 AH> SJ's use it.  (The first time I heard this my
 AH> reaction... although unspoken... was "Huh?")  It
 AH> often comes across as a milder version of
 AH> "should" in friend-to- friend interactions.
 AH> When Nora was three, for example, the five-
 AH> year-old daughter of a couple we'd known for
 AH> years grabbed a crayon out of her hand & said
 AH> "Let me show you the correct way to play with
 AH> crayons!"  We hadn't realized until we became
 AH> parents ourselves how [SJ/type "A"] these people
 AH> were and how our parenting style differed.  I
 AH> was aghast at the reverberations from my
 AH> childhood which they elicited.  IMHO play is a
 AH> method of learning about the world & sharpening
 AH> one's skills.  Mother Nature, in her wisdom, has
 AH> programmed it into the young of our own & other
 AH> species and has made it fun so they'll be
 AH> intuitively drawn to it.  Nora didn't try to eat
 AH> the crayons or write on walls ... and she
 AH> devised good learning strategies for herself.
 AH> Why would I want to interfere, if no humans or
 AH> precious possessions were harmed in the
 AH> experiment? To many SJ's, however, learning &
 AH> fun seem to be mutually exclusive... (sigh).



Shoot... I have the best tagline for the subject, along the lines, "If
something speaks for itself, why interrupt?" Out of curiosity, is there a
statistical favor for a style, in the order of siblings? I think you mentioned
something about only children being XYZ.


... James
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