jerryc41 wrote:
My Duncan 1955 Tournament yo-yo will arrive in a few days.
We expect you to post a video of your demo tricks!! Maybe that will keep you away from those events, eating and doorways!
Mark
burkphoto wrote:
This illustrates what I call the "candy dish concept."
"Johnny, don't you climb that bookshelf to get that candy dish. YOU KNOW you're not supposed to have candy. It'll rot your teeth out."
What the parent does not realize is that little Johnny has been CHALLENGED. Suddenly, what the Mom deemed "unobtanium" is verrry eenteresting! So Johnny waits for a minute or two and then climbs the bookshelf... [CRASH!!!]
[Mom screams in horror]
[Dad:] "HONEY, CALL 911! I'll try to get this thing off of him!"
Instead of removing the temptation altogether, Johnny's Mom failed to explain the laws of physics to her kid, and her husband failed to attach the bookcase to the wall to prevent such accidents, and both of them failed to understand that kids have to know WHY they should avoid climbing bookcases or touching hot stoves or whatever else it is that they've been told not to do.
ADULTS behave this way, too! As a corporate trainer, I always took time to explain the WHY. Without it, people often have zero incentive to do as they are told. They take shortcuts and leave steps out of a process. Or they find a different way to do something that results in problems downstream in the workflow.
Without a benefit, a feature is useless.
This illustrates what I call the "candy dish ... (
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Say to a kid "you're eating too fast, you will throw up", the kid will throw up.
Say to a kid who says they feel like throwing up; " you're not going to be sick", they won't throw up...
unless the cause is dire of course.
And as you say sir, explaining the consequences of an untenable action
works far better than saying "dont do that".
Also explaining the whys and hows of avoiding negative consequences works well too.
Apart from that, engaging a child this way puts them at a level closer to you...
which kids love.
markngolf wrote:
We expect you to post a video of your demo tricks!! Maybe that will keep you away from those events, eating and doorways!
Mark
Don't hold your breath. They yo-yo will probably wind up in the drawer with the juggling sacks, penny whistle, and other things I thought would be fun.
jerryc41 wrote:
Don't hold your breath. They yo-yo will probably wind up in the drawer with the juggling sacks, penny whistle, and other things I thought would be fun.
No Captain Midnight secret decoder ring?
😃
I had one of these when I was a kid... good and heavy.
My favourite trick was "Walking The Dog".
Photo lifted off ebay
Yo-yos, marbles and spinning tops. I remember when we would buy different tops and do tremendous tricks with them. The tip was a hard plastic one that you could replace once they wore out. Winding the long sting and throwing them to make them land in specific areas like table tops, chairs...many different surfaces including your hand.....
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