{"id":1836,"date":"2014-12-29T01:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T06:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T14:32:34","slug":"kids-do-the-strangest-things-so-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/12\/kids-do-the-strangest-things-so-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids do the Strangest Things\u2014So Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>People with no experience in a situation do the unthinkable. Often, the unthinkable leads to the impossible, and we want to know about the impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kids do things that are just, well, I struggle to describe them as they are out of the ordinary. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My oldest son once chipped a tooth with the knob end of a baseball bat while hitting a baseball. I still don&#8217;t understand how that is physically possible.<\/li>\n<li>College students write and submit long papers, but don&#8217;t write their name on the paper.<\/li>\n<li>A big brother is given a &#8220;time out,&#8221; and his little sister punishes herself because she always imitates him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on. The point is that kids do things that make no sense. Their inexperience leaves a void in knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>No knowledge is often the best kind of knowledge. It leads to discoveries, to knowledge that no one has.<\/p>\n<p>My advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spend time around kids and other inexperienced people and learn from them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips People with no experience in a situation do the unthinkable. Often, the unthinkable leads to the impossible, and we want to know about the impossible. Kids do things that are just, well, I struggle to describe them as they are out of the ordinary. Here are a few examples: My oldest son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,43,106,20],"tags":[110,165,220,142],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-systems-thinking","category-ideas","category-knowledge","category-learning","tag-general-systmes-thinking","tag-ideas","tag-knowledge","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}