Happy Halloween!!!
So this post is basically me posting some pics of our halloween party last saturday, cuz if I go into
too much detail I'll be writing, and you'll be reading forever.
Okay let the photo mini marathon being...
This was by far my favorite costume.
Here is the view from the side. Doesn't it look like's he's humping that thing?
Here is W as a bunny...
which turns out to be a perfect complimentary to my costume. Psycho Alice.
Here are the two pirates of the night Y and Y (yes both their names start with the same letter)
This is L as a sexy black devil.
And the bull's crazy eye
The bunny scratching the cowboy,
and the cowboy riding his bull
This is Y as a sexy nurse hugging me
and Y taking the bull by the horns
Me sitting with my gigantic knees... (omg my legs are huge)
AND... my favorite part of my costume
At the end of the night we went to my friend's Yvonne and Josh's concert. It was the first
time I heard their band play, The Octopuc Project.
I will go into details about their killer concert in another post, because they took my breath away.
Happy Halloween!!!
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Heinz Dilemma
In Europe, a woman was near death from cancer. There was one drug the doctors thoght might saver her.
A druggist in the same town had discovered it, but he was charging ten times what the drug cost him to
make. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only
get together half of what it cost. The druggist refused to sell it cheaper or let Heinz pay later.
So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.
Should Heinz have done that? Why or why not?
This dilemma comes from Kohlberg, who asked children of varying ages what they would have done and why.
Kohlberg believed the important thing was to understand "an individual's reasons about the dilemma"
and not
"the content of the response".
And important tool in understanding how morality develops.
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And important tool in understanding how morality develops.
Coffee Readings
Yesterday we went out to my friend V's bachelorette party. We didn't do any strip tease dancer cuz
we all agree they are nasty. We did share some horror stories of past bachelorettes... I'll share some
another day.
After dinner at Miyako's, a nice japanese restaurant, we headed to Byzantio's. It's a cozy greek coffee
place. The building is actually a house in the city which the owner turned into a restaurant.
My friends and I have been going there cuz they have an excellent array of wines, drinks, and coffees.
The one I always drink is the greek coffee, a small (expresso like) cup but without the heavy dose of
caffeine. And the plus to drinking that is my friend Y can read coffee cups. And... yesterday she read
mine. She saw me in a new path (I'm thinking it's my career change), she saw a woman laying down
and a heart. Wanna see?
I thought I had taken a picture of the sleeping woman but looking through my phone's photos...I didn't.
Too bad cuz she had long hair like me and everything, it was really amazing.
Her past readings have come true... It's gonna be interesting to see just exactly what that heart means... Oh,
she saw a rabbit at the bottom part of the heart (it didn't come out in the pic) and rabbits are good
luck.
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My friends and I have been going there cuz they have an excellent array of wines, drinks, and coffees. The one I always drink is the greek coffee, a small (expresso like) cup but without the heavy dose of caffeine. And the plus to drinking that is my friend Y can read coffee cups. And... yesterday she read mine. She saw me in a new path (I'm thinking it's my career change), she saw a woman laying down and a heart. Wanna see?
How can I be cross at work
When I'm looking at this little cutie all day long?
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Bilingualism
Some people have made it known to me (when they learned that I grew up bilingual),
that bilingual children had cognitive and linguistic deficits from growing up with two or more
lanuages in their early developmental years.
They believed that having a kid learn 2 languages put him/her at a
disadvantage, and limited their ability to focus and learn either one
successfully. Thanks to my child psychology class I can now (being a child
that learned both english and spanish at the same time) say that theory
is complete bullocks. (aren't plp mean? Cuz they knew that I had
become fluent in both english and spanish by the age of seven, implying I had some sort
of language deficit)
It is now known that although teaching a child two or more languages in
their younger years makes their immediate learning (language
communication) development a bit slower than a child learning one language, the
difference is miniscule. A child using one language more than the other
while communicating. or mixing both languages together does not
indicate any language deficit. It's just a temporal language imbalance
in which a toddler unconsciously communicates the fastest way possible
without filtering his/her speech, which results in mixed
languages. This is temporary and as the child grows, so does their
control and understanding of each language.
Actually the benefits of speaking two or more languages is lasting and
beneficial for the child.
For instance, bilingual children have shown that they are advanced on cognitive development. They do
better on selective attention, analytical reasoning, concept formation, and cognitive flexibility.
Their metalinguistic skills are well developed, being more aware that words are arbitrary symbols,
realizing grammatical and meaning errors in speech... among other things.
Only americans are silly enough to actually ask: Does bilingualism in America threaten the English
language?. Honestly...
And just to kick more sand up their (the plp who indirectly told me I
would never know either english or spanish fluently) rear, I am learning
italian, after that I might take a stab at french.
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Actually the benefits of speaking two or more languages is lasting and beneficial for the child.
Blame it on my persistent headache
but I have been walking around town, talking to people with my sweater on backwards... and no one notices, not even me. Only until I gave up and scratched absentmindedly on the base of my throat that I felt the tag.
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Ok...
So I am blogging, even though I said I wouldn't until saturday but what the hell.
I'm on my lunch break, it's hot and muggy in here. The air conditioner refuses to work below 80 degrees.
I'm exhausted, but I mean really exhausted. I woke up today feeling like a freight train had dragged my body through 5 states. It doesn't help that I have had very erotic dreams for the past few days. The kinds of dreams where you wake up during the night all disoriented, blinking in the dark. Only to fall right back to sleep and continue the dream right were you left off. Ever happened to you?
I'm not really complaining, just wish I could control them a bit more, maybe put Johnny Depp in there somewhere. ;P
And for the past three days I have had a constant headache. It refuses to die even when I take three tylenol. Maybe it's the downside to my super erotic dreams?
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I'm not really complaining, just wish I could control them a bit more, maybe put Johnny Depp in there somewhere. ;P
Focus focus focus
I have two psychs back to back on friday AGAIN.
I'm gonna focus focus focus on studying for the rest of the week. That means no:
1. Chatting
2. Coffee breaks at Starbucks
3. no T (only till night for an hour)
4. no T.V.
5. No blogging
6. No long bubble baths that make me sleepy
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2. Coffee breaks at Starbucks
3. no T (only till night for an hour)
4. no T.V.
5. No blogging
6. No long bubble baths that make me sleepy
WTF?
I don't know what to say anymore... except
he should have gone with Clark.
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why oh why?
why is it when i make up my mind to go on a diet and my will is strong and unbreakable that people literally trip over themselves to give me candy?
And in candy I mean delicious, imported chocolate from Switzerland.
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Interesting game time with your 3-6 year old
Developmental child psychology class has me wishing my 3 year old cousin lived in the same country as me... so I could see how far along she is cognitively speaking.
I thought it might be fun if any of you having 3 year olds tried it. There are no wrong or right results, no genius kids or dumb ones. It's just a test to see centration.
Ok. What you do is get two tall glasses and setting them side by side, you fill each of them with the same amount of water. Then you get another, shorter but wider glass of water, (Make sure the water from one tall glass will not overflow the shorter wider one. If it does, there is no need to fill to the brim the top ones, just so that they have the same amount of liquid.) You set the shorter glass aside.
Call your kid and ask him/her to describe the two glasses. Ask him/her if the two glasses have the same amount of water and why.
Once they answer you yes (they will) you pour water out of one of the glasses to the shorter, wider one in front of your child. then setting the short glass and the wide glass beside each other ask him/her which glass has more water.
Don't try to rationalize with them or give any sort of hints. There are no wrong or right answers to this. If the child answers that the tall glass has more water ask him/her why they thought this. If they answer that they are the same ask them why they thought this.
What does this all mean either way? Just how far along the child is in understanding reversibility and centration. In other words, little children are not able to focus on more than a certain characteristic at a time, in this case being the height of the glass, which in their mind means more liquid.
I saw a little girl 4 and 6 months of age being asked this and she failed the first time. The second time she was tested she was 4 and 9 months old and she was able to understand exactly why the shorter glass had the same amount of liquid.
Cognitive development varies from child to child, so that's why I say a kid from roughly 3-6 years of age. If the kid gets it at 6 or a 3 it is not indicative of their intellectual capacity as a lot of parents dread to think.
If you decide to do this experiment, let me know what happened ;P
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Call your kid and ask him/her to describe the two glasses. Ask him/her if the two glasses have the same amount of water and why.
Once they answer you yes (they will) you pour water out of one of the glasses to the shorter, wider one in front of your child. then setting the short glass and the wide glass beside each other ask him/her which glass has more water.
Don't try to rationalize with them or give any sort of hints. There are no wrong or right answers to this. If the child answers that the tall glass has more water ask him/her why they thought this. If they answer that they are the same ask them why they thought this.
If you decide to do this experiment, let me know what happened ;P