I'd like to see a real world experiment that doesn't involve watching a screen and identifying popular cartoon characters. A child's degree of exposure to those two characters and past experience with screen time could influence the outcome.
My explanation for disobeying instructions is far simpler. What is important to you is not important to toddlers. They don't share your sense of priorities and often need the threat of repercussions (punishment) or verbal cues (Daddy getting upset) in order to understand urgency or importance.
My kids have no trouble understanding directions or anticipating how to fulfill my wishes. Sometimes they just don't feel the need to do what I say. There's a big difference between the two.
Having never encountered an out-of-control family at a restaurant, I have wonder where Mr. C eats. It sounds made up. Maybe one incident... but enough incidents to merit whining about it in a book? Nah, I don't buy it. I won't buy it.
It's a Toddler Tug. Pass the loop through your child's arm and cinch it up at his armpit. No more leaning down to yank young Caleb by the elbow. Just grab his handle. Those Puritans sure knew how to raise kids.
I don't know what Forrest is talking about. I have the configuration of a See's Candies box (milk chocolate collection) burned to memory. Don't leave anything to guesswork.
Another good book is The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
Device complexity is a primary consideration in my purchases. The worst culprits are all-in-one gadgets where you'll never use half the functions... like a boom box that has a cassette deck, clock, alarm for the clock and a remote control for the (hello???) hand-held boom box.
A primary function of whiskers is to indicate to a cat whether its body can fit through an opening. Cats don't grow obese in nature. Lack of exercise indoors and overfeeding cause obesity. Shame on the cat's caretaker.
It's a Barbie Defabricator. Insert Barbie into the nozzle, click, and 90 seconds later her clothes appear freshly washed and dried in the collection chamber.
The Defabricator is usually pink though. This one was owned by a perv.
It's a bug catcher. Bugs get sucked into the clear collection chamber which detaches so your kids can view the critters. Do not use on daddy longlegs or crane flies because their legs tend to get ripped from their bodies.
My explanation for disobeying instructions is far simpler. What is important to you is not important to toddlers. They don't share your sense of priorities and often need the threat of repercussions (punishment) or verbal cues (Daddy getting upset) in order to understand urgency or importance.
My kids have no trouble understanding directions or anticipating how to fulfill my wishes. Sometimes they just don't feel the need to do what I say. There's a big difference between the two.
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Device complexity is a primary consideration in my purchases. The worst culprits are all-in-one gadgets where you'll never use half the functions... like a boom box that has a cassette deck, clock, alarm for the clock and a remote control for the (hello???) hand-held boom box.
The Defabricator is usually pink though. This one was owned by a perv.