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I’ve never spent much time with toddlers. What do they make up things about? Their own actions, other’s actions, claims about the environment?
by selestify 6y ago
I’ve never spent much time with toddlers. What do they make up things about? Their own actions, other’s actions, claims about the environment?
- Scarblac 6y agoMy six year old will just continue as long as he has people's attention, and if that means he has to make things up, so be it. Freely stealing phrases from other recent conversations. So this morning he heard about an animal, it was kind of a lion. But with bat's ears, it lives in Africa. It looks like it's a rock, but it's actually not, it's rock shaped but has tiny legs. And it's gray and hard. Its face... It doesn't really have a face. It lives up in trees where it eats bamboo and apples. It has these huge fangs like sabertooth tigers, you know? It's glorious.
- riffraff 6y agoAll of those, in my experience. My smallest kid has a habit of telling stories about himself that actually come from whatever he heard recently, e.g. "once I was Godzilla..", or claims about things in reality that come from stories or misunderstandings all mixed up "did you know, there are three pigs, but they are not pigs, they are wolves and a hunter came and killed them but they weren't wolves they were dragons..." It's actually very GPT-3-ish now that I think of it.