{"id":2409,"date":"2012-04-06T05:47:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2012-04-06T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T19:11:46","slug":"impressionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Impressionable"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 1 mile with the dog]<\/p>\n

The other day I was remembering an LP record that I used to listen to when I was a child.\u00a0 Remembering the plot of the thing, I did some googling and found it.<\/p>\n

The story is a combination of music and\u00a0 reading.\u00a0 The main character is a kid named Sparky.\u00a0 He is supposed to be learning a musical instrument.\u00a0 But he gets tired of the first selected instrument and goes on to another, then another.\u00a0 He never sticks with one and in the end he doesn’t learn a thing.<\/p>\n

The recording is called Sparky’s Music Mixup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought of this from long ago because I was reminded how children pick up on events in a different way than adults do.\u00a0 Looking back, I remember that I overreacted to the Sparky story.\u00a0 I was genuinely worried about being flighty and not concentrating enough on one thing at a time.\u00a0 But I also saw the implication that you might pick the wrong thing at the beginning and be stuck doing something that was not a good fit.\u00a0 Wow, talk about pressure!<\/p>\n

So I think back now to my children’s younger days and wonder what things they remember, what off-hand remarks found lodging in their mind or what nap-time story in kindergarten (something I never even knew happened) may have been pivotal in forming the way they operate.\u00a0 It’s a daunting prospect.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe its only a daunting prospect from the aspect of control. Things happen that a parent cannot control.\u00a0 Most<\/strong> things that happen a parent cannot control.\u00a0 So you try to keep events below the level of life-danger (“Don’t run with scissors!”) and do a lot of praying.<\/p>\n

Oh, another lesson from the Sparky record?\u00a0 A lot of commercial stuff\u00a0 “made for children” really hasn’t been well thought out.\u00a0 Poor old Sparky’s life was ruined by being flighty.\u00a0 Look out kids or you will also destroy your life beyond redemption.\u00a0 Looking back, I think the thing was mostly a vehicle for the music with a bit of half-baked morality tale added on.<\/p>\n

(You too can listen to Sparky ruin his life.\u00a0 It is a few minutes into this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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