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Here's a crazy idea: What if we raised our children to process their difficult emotions instead of suppress them and stay active and move freely while working a

Here's a crazy idea: What if we raised our children to process their difficult emotions instead of suppress them and stay active and move freely while working and studying (instead of sitting in a chair at a desk)

maps7 6y ago
I feel I would thrive in a movement based work environment. I think and articulate much better when walking.
- dageshi 6y ago
  If I had infinite money, I'd build an office on an entire floor, with the desk in the middle and a kind of walking track around it that I could do circles on, sometimes I just really have to walk.
  - paulcole 6y ago
    Thinking you need infinite money to go for a walk is peak HN.
    - dageshi 6y ago
      No, it's peak UK, the chances of the weather being agreeable for me to go for even a 5 minute walk without it pouring down are not good for much of the year.
      - paulcole 6y ago
        I live in the Pacific Northwest where it’s a similar climate. I know we don’t get much right here in the US but we have invented raincoats!
  - megameter 6y ago
    Try floor sitting. It's not perfect in the summer months since you get less airflow around the legs, but it lets you move a little and stretch as you think which is very healthy. Dozens of postures possible. It can be done cheaply, cheaper than a "normal" desk setup: 1. Folding floor desk(ideally taller and wider than a breakfast tray so there is leg room) 2. Lap desk for peripherals. This makes computer interactions ergonomic, no more hunching or reaching. 3. Floor chair/backrest so you can recline and get some back support in long sessions. Plus all of it can fold compactly so it works well in a limited footprint.
nickff 6y ago
It's not what teachers are used to or desire, and the educational system is primarily designed for teachers.
- vkou 6y ago
  The education system is primarily designed for controlling costs, and making children easy to manage.
toper-centage 6y ago
Unfortunately that is incompatible with 30 children in a classroom being managed but a single underpaid teacher.
- trhway 6y ago
  so, who is up for a startup - an AI-agent as a teacher, each child gets his own teacher, or several simultaneously, basically personalized Muppet show guiding the child through the intricacies of 1+1=2 and how to write "mom". For the older students - some FPS (multi-played by the whole class or school against school) with math and other problems to unlock new more powerful weapons/etc. should work too - anybody who didn't do the homework and thus fails to solve the problems fast naturally becomes a bad teammate and the peer pressure is the king at that age.
  - tsimionescu 6y ago
    Oh sure, we'll just get some AI capable of teaching children, I'm sure GPT-3 with a little prompting is more than enough for that. And of course, what else could maths education value other than speed of figuring out problems? After all, Cauchy was famed as the fastest differentiator in the west, wasn't he?
  - olyjohn 6y ago
    Not sure if serious...
  - throwaway45349 6y ago
    Lol if you think kids will peer pressure other kids into doing their "FPS maths homework" then you're seriously out of touch.
marta_morena_25 6y ago
Here is a crazy idea that needs to come before this: What if we taught our adult population to process their difficult emotions instead of suppressing them and stay active and move freely while working and studying. Actually, this already falls flat in the first section. At least 90% of adult fail on that one. How are they supposed to teach something to their children that they themselves don't even understand? And teaching is usually much more difficult than understanding something yourself. Which brings us to "school should teach that". But schools are not designed for that and teachers are not qualified for that. Hell, it's already an exception to meet a teacher who can properly convey the meaning of "1+1=2", not to mention a teacher who can teach children, who are not their own, how to process difficult emotions. Good luck with that
- dstick 6y ago
  Is there some deeper meaning to 1 + 1 = 2 you could enlighten us on? Most teachers I’ve met seem perfectly capable at getting at least that across.
  - marta_morena_25 6y ago
    "seem perfectly capable at getting at least that across" yeah, that's part of the problem. They already know that 1+1=2, or so you'd think. But you would be hard pressed to find a teacher who can actually explain WHY 1+1=2 (which is based in how our number system was created and using proof by induction). Anyway, that is besides the point, since you won't teach children math with college approaches, but the important thing is that most teachers don't understand what they teach, they just "say what they remember". And that doesn't pair well with children's insatiable "why" requests, even if they don't utter them. Teaching children is actually harder than teaching adults, because most adults largely gave up on the "why" and just settle on "I gotta remember that, if I want to pass the next exam" (school did a good job with them I guess). So why 1+1=2? There is a lot of depth in that that is left unanswered and children are forced to memorize the answer. From then on, a sharp decline of cognitive ability follows as they "graduate" through our excellent school systems...
    - 6y ago
pwinnski 6y ago
Good luck!

maps7 6y ago

I feel I would thrive in a movement based work environment. I think and articulate much better when walking.

dageshi 6y ago
If I had infinite money, I'd build an office on an entire floor, with the desk in the middle and a kind of walking track around it that I could do circles on, sometimes I just really have to walk.
- paulcole 6y ago
  Thinking you need infinite money to go for a walk is peak HN.
  - dageshi 6y ago
    No, it's peak UK, the chances of the weather being agreeable for me to go for even a 5 minute walk without it pouring down are not good for much of the year.
    - paulcole 6y ago
      I live in the Pacific Northwest where it’s a similar climate. I know we don’t get much right here in the US but we have invented raincoats!
- megameter 6y ago
  Try floor sitting. It's not perfect in the summer months since you get less airflow around the legs, but it lets you move a little and stretch as you think which is very healthy. Dozens of postures possible. It can be done cheaply, cheaper than a "normal" desk setup: 1. Folding floor desk(ideally taller and wider than a breakfast tray so there is leg room) 2. Lap desk for peripherals. This makes computer interactions ergonomic, no more hunching or reaching. 3. Floor chair/backrest so you can recline and get some back support in long sessions. Plus all of it can fold compactly so it works well in a limited footprint.

nickff 6y ago

It's not what teachers are used to or desire, and the educational system is primarily designed for teachers.

vkou 6y ago
The education system is primarily designed for controlling costs, and making children easy to manage.

toper-centage 6y ago

Unfortunately that is incompatible with 30 children in a classroom being managed but a single underpaid teacher.

trhway 6y ago
so, who is up for a startup - an AI-agent as a teacher, each child gets his own teacher, or several simultaneously, basically personalized Muppet show guiding the child through the intricacies of 1+1=2 and how to write "mom". For the older students - some FPS (multi-played by the whole class or school against school) with math and other problems to unlock new more powerful weapons/etc. should work too - anybody who didn't do the homework and thus fails to solve the problems fast naturally becomes a bad teammate and the peer pressure is the king at that age.
- tsimionescu 6y ago
  Oh sure, we'll just get some AI capable of teaching children, I'm sure GPT-3 with a little prompting is more than enough for that. And of course, what else could maths education value other than speed of figuring out problems? After all, Cauchy was famed as the fastest differentiator in the west, wasn't he?
- olyjohn 6y ago
  Not sure if serious...
- throwaway45349 6y ago
  Lol if you think kids will peer pressure other kids into doing their "FPS maths homework" then you're seriously out of touch.

marta_morena_25 6y ago

Here is a crazy idea that needs to come before this: What if we taught our adult population to process their difficult emotions instead of suppressing them and stay active and move freely while working and studying. Actually, this already falls flat in the first section. At least 90% of adult fail on that one. How are they supposed to teach something to their children that they themselves don't even understand? And teaching is usually much more difficult than understanding something yourself. Which brings us to "school should teach that". But schools are not designed for that and teachers are not qualified for that. Hell, it's already an exception to meet a teacher who can properly convey the meaning of "1+1=2", not to mention a teacher who can teach children, who are not their own, how to process difficult emotions. Good luck with that

dstick 6y ago
Is there some deeper meaning to 1 + 1 = 2 you could enlighten us on? Most teachers I’ve met seem perfectly capable at getting at least that across.
- marta_morena_25 6y ago
  "seem perfectly capable at getting at least that across" yeah, that's part of the problem. They already know that 1+1=2, or so you'd think. But you would be hard pressed to find a teacher who can actually explain WHY 1+1=2 (which is based in how our number system was created and using proof by induction). Anyway, that is besides the point, since you won't teach children math with college approaches, but the important thing is that most teachers don't understand what they teach, they just "say what they remember". And that doesn't pair well with children's insatiable "why" requests, even if they don't utter them. Teaching children is actually harder than teaching adults, because most adults largely gave up on the "why" and just settle on "I gotta remember that, if I want to pass the next exam" (school did a good job with them I guess). So why 1+1=2? There is a lot of depth in that that is left unanswered and children are forced to memorize the answer. From then on, a sharp decline of cognitive ability follows as they "graduate" through our excellent school systems...
  - 6y ago

pwinnski 6y ago

Good luck!