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My kid use to drop things and look down at them from his chair. I didn't understand what he was trying to do. I learned that it was his way of trying to underst
by smusamashah 2y ago
My kid use to drop things and look down at them from his chair. I didn't understand what he was trying to do. I learned that it was his way of trying to understand how world works. That if he dropped something, will it remain there or disappear.
That contradicts this contradiction, unless there is another explanation.
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- simplify 2y agoA child doesn't always a mental "why" reasoning for their actions. Sometimes kids just behave in coarse playful ways, and those ways happen to be very useful for mental development.
- sepositus 2y agoMy (much) older kid still does ridiculous things that defy reason (and usually end up with something broken). I don't think it's fair to say that every action they take has some deeper meaning behind it. "Why were you throwing the baseball at the running fan?" "I don't know...I was bored."
- tim333 2y agoI'm not sure that stuff dies out fully with adulthood. I imagine part of Musk doing iffy salutes or Trump doing weird tariffs is a curiosity - what is I do this odd thing, I wonder what happens. I can think of examples with myself too - I'm kind of learning short term trading and the behaviors can be counterintuitive.
- wongarsu 2y agoIf it's a round thing it might well disappear. Even with full understanding that things don't cease to exist when they leave your field of view, "where do things end up if I drop them" is a pretty big field to experiment with. Youtube is full of videos of adults doing the same, just from more extreme heights or other unusual scenarios (since as adults we have a solid grasp of the simpler scenarios)
- AIPedant 2y ago> I learned that it was his way of trying to understand how world works. That if he dropped something, will it remain there or disappear. I don’t understand how you learned this. Who told you that’s what was going on in his head?