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| • Teenagers aren’t dumber than preschoolers Posted: 25 Mar 2009 04:06 PM PDT
The comments button is at the bottom right of this post. This is from Sideswipe: Why are teenagers so lousy at chores? A University of Minnesota researcher says they have “cognitive limitations”. [Teenagers'] brains can’t multitask as well as their parents … The part of the brain responsible for multitasking continues to develop until late adolescence, with cells making connections even after some children are old enough to drive, according to a new study in Child Development. The frontal cortex figures out (or doesn’t) what to do when a person is asked to juggle multiple pieces of information. Imagine, then, how “make your bed and bring the laundry down” might befuddle a 13-year-old. (Source: Neatorama.com) So I went to Neatorama, which had a link to what appears to be the original article at LiveScience. Before describing the research the article starts with Finally researchers have come up with a reason other than pure laziness for why teenagers can’t shower and brush their teeth or unload the dishwasher and wipe down the counter. Blame it on “cognitive limitations.” Their brains can’t multitask as well as those of the taskmasters. Trust, however, that they’ll grow out of it. The part of the brain responsible for multitasking continues to develop until late adolescence, with cells making connections even after some children are old enough to drive, according to a new study in the May/June issue of the journal Child Development. The frontal cortex, which starts just behind the eyes and goes back almost to the ears, figures out (or doesn’t) what to do when a person is asked to juggle multiple pieces of information. Imagine, then, how “make your bed and bring the laundry down” might befuddle a 13-year-old. As far as I can tell the line “Imagine, then, how “make your bed and bring the laundry down” might befuddle a 13-year-old” is not from the researchers at all, it’s just a snappy line made up by LiveScience. It is common these days for people to justify laziness and disobedience amongst children (”Johnny has Oppositional Defiance Disorder” Translation: Johnny has been raised to be a disobedient brat) by giving a medical reason for such character flaws. LiveScience does this and Sideswipe perpetuates the myth: Sideswipe needs to be more careful in future. I personally know preschoolers that are capable of following instructions far more complex than “make your bed and bring the laundry down”. It’s a matter of training their minds: I also know a 12-month-old who has been trained to pick up toys and put them in a box. Preschoolers weren’t dumber than teenagers when I last checked. Related post: Mother expects police to control her 10 year old son What do you think about the points that I have raised here? ~~~~~~~~~~ Tagged: child, children, classical liberalism, media, new zealand, oppositional defiance disorder, teenagers |
| • Big Brother using planes to spy on UK citizens Posted: 25 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PDT
The comments button is at the bottom right of this post. The Daily Mail is reporting that the Broadland District Council hired a plane for five days to find out which houses were “wasting” energy. The plane had thermal imaging equipment, and those houses which showed up as leaking a lot of heat received a visit from council officers. How long before the visits switch from so-called education to enforcement? Then there’s this quote from a council officer: ‘We were also able to look at very cold properties and think we might have picked up people on low incomes who are not heating their homes because they cannot afford to.’ So they’re already going beyond environmental issues and into social issues. Will they send a social worker to knock on the door of these cold houses and prosecute people for not keeping their children warm? Such actions by the nanny state are probably legally feasible right now. There’s no mention of how much CO2 the plane generated. Much evil is done under the banner of environmentalism. Related posts: • Turn *on* all your lights during Earth Hour • The Emissions Trading Scheme: global Socialism • Pure evil: social workers give children to gay couple for adoption despite wishes of grandparents What do you think about the Broadland District Council measuring heat loss from houses? ~~~~~~~~~~ Tagged: big brother, broadland district council, civil liberties, civil rights, classical liberalism, climate change, environment, environmentalism, global warming, nanny state, new zealand, spy plane |
| • Turn *on* all your lights during Earth Hour Posted: 25 Mar 2009 07:00 AM PDT
The comments button is at the bottom right of this post. Earth Hour is at 8:30pm Saturday March 28 2009. This is more propaganda intended to perpetuate the lie of anthropogenic (human-created) climate change* and justify the carbon trading schemes that are global socialism in drag. This comes from the Earth Hour website: Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action. I advise you to turn on every light in the house and open the curtains. If you’ve got any searchlights turn those on as well. This is how you can send a powerful global message saying that anthropogenic climate change is a load of bunkum. ********** * Click here and here for more information. ~~~~~~~~~~ Tagged: anthropogenic climate change, carbon trading, classical liberalism, climate change, earth hour, new zealand, socialism |
