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Confirming Perceptions When I find myself in a "tell the truth" situation with my own kids, I often start with these words:____ happened. You (C were right to notice that." This is critical. Our children are deep sensors and perceivers of their environment. They simply haven't amassed enough life experience to differentiate what is dangerous from what is merely annoying from what is safe. In fact, research has found that children notice more details in their environment than adults. We often tell ourselves stories such as "My child is too young to have noticed that," or "There's no way he picked up on that," but... no. If you've noticed something in your environment, your child has too. Children are, generally, helpless-they are keen observers because noticing changes (i.e., potential threats) is what allows them to seek safety.
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"We don’t want freedom and we don’t want to take responsibility for ourselves. Medicine, religion, government and basically all institutions, exist to allow us to abdicate responsibility for ourselves to others so we can relax in our safe, cozy little cells and feel content.
~Jed
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Keith Johnstone, in his classic work on improvisation in theater,15 offers actors a simple principle: to improvise a scene, the only thing you really need to know is what status to play. This principle requires surprisingly few modifications when it comes to real life. At the heart of this book is the idea that only a few variables need to be managed to control a stream of decision-making. We’ll encounter some of the most common variables later in this chapter.
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