Kids and Other Stuff in one of those books about the Visibility of Trends and Perception of the World

People talk of trends when a trend becomes "visible" and overwhelming. People account their effects and their causes to and from all sort of things. Each account have their own studies and records, all attempting to explain the observable trends.

I read one of the books that contain such accounts. In one page there is a paragraph stating something about that kids can watch a kiddie show while playing at the same time... Isnt that familiar? Isn't that the line that kids used to say before being admonished and programmed by grown-ups?

    "But Dad, I can watch TV while doing my homework"
    "I can do both, Mommy. I can listen to you admonish me while Im playing"
    "But I can brush my teeth and make my bed at the same time"

Kids can multi-task and grown-up people can multi-task. It maybe that in their part of the world, the grown-ups have lost that ability.. and most probably didnt know they had that.

"Grownups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always forever explaining things to them"
- The Little Prince

In another chapter, I read some bunch of psychologists allegedy say that small kids because of something called principle of mutual exclusivity, have difficulty understanding "that any one object can have two different names".

Perhaps the psychologists were referring to the kids in their population. It was an erroneous statement. A generalization made on the part of the author to include something scientific as an explanation of certain circumstance, or worst, a generalization by the psychologists he was using as a reference.

It is silly to say that what MIGHT, JUST MIGHT be true in one place would be immediately be a universal truth.

Kids here in our place, because of the wide usage of mixing constructs from two or more languages/dialects, can identify multiple labels for a single object. Kids here know that a dog can be called/referred to as "dog" in English or by the equivalent words in our local dialects.

It's a shame really that editors in the author's part of the world dont know anything about reviewing something that they have published for international reader consumption. Or is it perhaps they have assumed everything written from their end to be universallly-applicable truths or do they just like to ride on international-bestseller trends while it's hot?

It's funny that most international bestsellers that deal on trends contain little or no discussions at all about the trend basis for making international bestsellers.

But nonetheless, despite its flaws, the book was still worth reading. If anything, the book was good source - a great reference on how other people view the world and yet another example of trends - on how easilly the readership can accept and indulge in the author's way of thinking.

If I may be bold to comment, the author should add another type of personality in his book: "Drone". This would basically be the category where most of the people in the author's part of the world would fall in.

Everyone is a drone, one way or another; some at times, and most people, all the time.

Drones: Buzz. Buzz. Buzz