Posted 12.06.2007 at 12:09 pm
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Parents, be on guard, because your kids are watching very, very closely. A new Yale University study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that kids learn how to perform certain actions or tasks through a very dedicated form of imitation. They tend to copy all the motions or steps an adult uses to perform a given manipulation task, rather than just the important ones. The three-to-five-year-old kids in the study could tell which actions were unnecessary, such as tapping a box with a feather before opening it. Yet they still copied superfluous actions when mimicking adults in other tests.—Gregory Mone
(Image credit: Yale Department of Psychology)
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This is Why I have always said That We put the Wrong Meaning Behind What a Parents In Fluance Is & Should be . Like the Artical says Kids Follow thier Parents mistakes , They also follow their Sucsess, So What I say is That Parents Are Not Here To Teach us whats Right ,But rather kids Should Reconize What there Parents do Wrong & then do Show them The Right Way ...
If We as Childern only Learned to Do Good At What are Parents fail at , then we would Stop The Passing Down Of Bad Habit's ...
I'm Ace Banger, the Guru ... & Thats What Kids Should Do