Scott Alexander
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Give them a task from this list and they'll be the most zealous students you've ever seen.
Ask them to learn something else, like that pills aren't food and you shouldn't eat them, and it's back to, I'm just a little baby, how can you expect me to remember facts?
Here's a photo of Scott's two kids.
One of them is smiling and looking mischievous, and the other one is frowning and looking intense.
It's captioned, If vehicle equals animal, what do toddlers think of being inside a vehicle?
Here, Lyra's just enjoying it while it lasts.
They seem to be on a model train, some kind of train at an amusement park.
Scott writes, This leads me to propose, I don't care what the anthropologists say, we all know modern hunter-gatherers aren't representative of our hominid ancestors, that our forebears used toddlers as some kind of lookout.
Their job was to sit on top of a tree, scan the savannah, and when they saw something, inform the tribe.
And not stop until another family member closed the loop.
Antelope acknowledged, over and out.
Books can be an emergency too, although my children have different ways of relating to them.
Lyra relates to books by sitting in my lap quietly while I read them to her.
Kai relates to books by tolerating this for one page, then grabbing it, yelling, MY BOOK, flipping the pages until he finds the best page, then holding it open to the best page and defending it against anyone who might try to flip it to other, inferior pages.
The best page varies by book.
but it's usually whichever page has one of the following on it.