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Princess Soraya
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| tomato wrote: |
[Hello, Princess Soraya!
Desmond Morris might say that you have more maternal drive than you are consciously aware of.
He argues that most domestic dogs and cats are comparable in size to babies, so they serve as surrogate babies. |
Mr Morris can say all he likes.  The only drive I have is below the belt.  |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| I thought I loved kids... until I became a teacher. Some of them I look forward to seeing my classes. But there are those "others". |
I had the opposite reaction. I didn't really like kids, then I taught elementary, and loved them! Kindy, though, I think I could never teach. Way too young. I actually prefer the ages of the kids in grades 2-5. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I am uninterested in babies. Kids don't bother me at all, but babies do. Nothing but little screaming secreters. People think I'm so rotten when I say that I don't want to raise a child for the first two years, but it's not because I hate kids. I just don't get excited about babies and they make me a little uncomfortable! |
heh. My fiance says the same thing. Except he says he'll take the child-rearing over when they are 7  |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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You can't win either way.
Back home, people thought I was a bad person because I loved kids.
According to them, that could mean only one thing. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| I hate kids some of the time--but that's when I'm in my adult logico-mathematic, problem solving, arrogant mindset. When I start playing with them, and by playing I mean mock punching them, putting them in headlocks, making silly faces, tricking them, singing and joking with them, I can't help but love em. If you forget where you came from, you can't go back. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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The mods threatened to kick me off the forum the last time I tried to start an argument between the Evolutionists and the Creationists.
I hope the mods will bear with me long enough to analyze what The Gipkik just said in Evolutionary terms.
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| I hate kids some of the time--but that's when I'm in my adult logico-mathematic, problem solving, arrogant mindset. |
That is because Gepkik is in a role which nature never intended.
In prehistoric times, adults were responsible for children, but they shared that responsibility with other adults.
A person was never surrounded with beings different from himself except when those beings were wild animals or enemy warriors.
Here, Gipkik, as well as the rest of us, is surrounded with beings different from himself.
So here, Gipkik, as well as the rest of us, receives a message from his inner brain telling him that those beings are wild animals and enemy warriors.
The one disciplinary technique which is most effective, most often emphasized in education class, but most often neglected in the classroom is positive reinforcement.
This technique is neglected in the classroom because it is inhibited by the inner brain.
Would positive reinforcement work on a battlefield full of enemy invaders? Of course not!
Would positive reinforcement work in a wilderness full of wild animals? Or course not!
So our inner brains tell us that it will not work in a classroom full of feisty children.
That is why we become engrossed in defending ourselves from the 개구쟁이's in the class and forget that there are students in the class who are trying to behave and trying to learn.
That is why we forget to recognize the 개구쟁이's when they are NOT being 개구쟁이's.
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| When I start playing with them, and by playing I mean mock punching them, putting them in headlocks, making silly faces, tricking them, singing and joking with them, I can't help but love em. |
That is because Gepkik is in a role which nature DID intend.
For proof of this, we see adult animals play-fighting with juveniles.
The adult animals nip at the juveniles. They could bite them to death, but they don't.
The adults animals paw at the juveniles. They could claw them to death, but they don't.
This is because adults have to rehearse the juveniles for an actual confrontation with an actual enemy or predator.
You know and I know that all the physical fitness in the world will do us no good if North Korea drops a bomb on us.
But it is only our outer brains which know that. Our inner brains don't know about bombs, because bombs weren't around a million years ago, and our inner brains are a million years behind the times.
Consequently, the children's inner brains go right on telling them to go 메에에에롱 at male teachers and the male teachers' inner brains go right on telling them to mock punch children and put them in headlocks. |
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Loudog
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
Location: Shiheung
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I wouldn't say you are a bad person. I would never say that retarded people are bad, they are just different and special. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
I hope the mods will bear with me long enough to analyze what The Gipkik just said in Evolutionary terms.
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I'm not sure if this supports evolution so much as primate behavior--but thanks for your analysis all the same. |
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aboxofchocolates
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| I thought I loved kids... until I became a teacher. Some of them I look forward to seeing my classes. But there are those "others". |
I had the opposite reaction. I didn't really like kids, then I taught elementary, and loved them! Kindy, though, I think I could never teach. Way too young. I actually prefer the ages of the kids in grades 2-5. |
Me too! Especially the ones who act up a little. They have spunk and don't mind standing out to get a little attention. I discovered quickly if you give them chores and responsibilities they follow you around like puppies. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| It's evolutionarily natural for us to think kids are cute and hence love them, but at the same time for kids to be complete selfish brats and hence make us hate them. As for maternal or paternal drives, I don't know: perhaps if I produce my own kid as a result of certain other drives that very definitely exist, I may find the paternal instinct kicks in. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Never trust a person who doesn't like children or animals... |
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