Take the old Jesuit saying
Give me the child until he is seven, and I will show you the man.
and make it intersect with Brenda Laurel’s finding, from interviews with over 1,000 children, that of the categories of play, the largest category for girls aged eight to twelve is narrative construction
Stories were made up about existing narratives or from whole cloth. Stories could be told, written, drawn, theatrically performed, or improvised.
(Brenda Laurel, “Narrative Construction as Play” ACM Digital Library, Interactions-Funology Vol 11 No 5 (2004) pp 73-74.)
and extrapolate and universalize: after seven there is the mad liberty of make believe intersecting with reality.
And so for day 251
22.08.2007