As Annie and I have been banished to the computer room while Jake and his friend play, I thought I'd take a minute to write about Jake's brain development...
Okay, not really. But here's the thing I told some of you I'd blog about. Today Jake was part of a study at the Center for Cognitive Development at UNCG. We have a friend who worked there for awhile, and we signed away our children for science, saying that yes, they could study our children's perfect brains to help figure out the brains of other children.
Or anyway, we said that yeah, cool, we'd participate if it came up. So that's how Jake ended up on the 5th floor of the Psych building at UNCG, hanging out with a girl my sister's age. Jake was immediately comfortable with her, I think for three reasons: 1) He got to play games, 2) Annie didn't get to play those games, and 3) He likes pretty girls.
While Annie and I played in a different room, Jake played a memory game with a Winnie the Pooh and a Tigger. I was worried the study would be too...you know, little kiddish (Pooh??) for him until the girl brought out the Transformer-ripoff robot for him to color. He was way into that. He told her all about his Halloween plans, his sister, his dad...and all he said about me was, "I don't know my mom's favorite color." (WHAT? It's PURPLE! It's always been purple and you do too know that!)
The study is focusing on how children learn and remember things about the world around them. He remembered everything about the Pooh, some about the Tigger, and not a darn thing about his mom.
He got a kazoo as a prize for playing along. I wonder if there are places that would pay us money for a peek into our kids' brains...
Now Annie and I will attempt to leave the room and cross through the living room without bothering the boys... It's tough to be the little sister...
Okay, not really. But here's the thing I told some of you I'd blog about. Today Jake was part of a study at the Center for Cognitive Development at UNCG. We have a friend who worked there for awhile, and we signed away our children for science, saying that yes, they could study our children's perfect brains to help figure out the brains of other children.
Or anyway, we said that yeah, cool, we'd participate if it came up. So that's how Jake ended up on the 5th floor of the Psych building at UNCG, hanging out with a girl my sister's age. Jake was immediately comfortable with her, I think for three reasons: 1) He got to play games, 2) Annie didn't get to play those games, and 3) He likes pretty girls.
While Annie and I played in a different room, Jake played a memory game with a Winnie the Pooh and a Tigger. I was worried the study would be too...you know, little kiddish (Pooh??) for him until the girl brought out the Transformer-ripoff robot for him to color. He was way into that. He told her all about his Halloween plans, his sister, his dad...and all he said about me was, "I don't know my mom's favorite color." (WHAT? It's PURPLE! It's always been purple and you do too know that!)
The study is focusing on how children learn and remember things about the world around them. He remembered everything about the Pooh, some about the Tigger, and not a darn thing about his mom.
He got a kazoo as a prize for playing along. I wonder if there are places that would pay us money for a peek into our kids' brains...
Now Annie and I will attempt to leave the room and cross through the living room without bothering the boys... It's tough to be the little sister...
4 Comments:
Well I think its great that you agreed to be a part of the study. I mean, who would they have to make comparisons with if no one would let their kids be studied? Good for you! You'd think you would get more than a kazoo out of the deal though ;-)
Ok, duh it's tough to be the little sister.
That's awesome!!! Ohhh, you know I want to know all the details. (Do you know who's running the study?) I hope Jake enjoys it. Do you guys get to see any of the results?
So you didn't find out his IQ or anything??? LOL Sounds like a neat thing to do! But yeah money would be good!
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