Rebecca

Children understand that their parents, for instance, are powerful in all sorts of ways that make them very different from children.

Now, from a child's point of view, knowing where those powers begin and end is pretty tricky.

I mean, think about all the things that your parents can do that you can't do.

And think about the fact that there isn't any obvious explanation about why your father can use a Visa card, for instance, which is something that you can't do.

The power to be a tooth fairy isn't all that much more impressive.

And it turns out another thing they're very interested in is human beings and how they work.

We are actually the lab rats.

They're actually doing experiments on us to see how we tick.

So when you play Drop the Spoon, you get two for the price of one.

You get an experiment about gravity, you get a little physics tutorial, and you get a psychology tutorial.

You can see about how that person will do something over and over again.

There's a wonderful experiment about this, actually, that Paul Harris in England did, where he got children to imagine that something was in a box.

So he would say, okay, now here's this box.

We're going to open it up.

We're going to close it.

Now let's imagine that there's a puppy in this box, or else let's imagine that there's a monster in the box.

And he asked the children, you know, is there really a monster in the box?

Is there really a puppy in the box?

They said no.

They were just imagining it.