“Intelligence Design” in children, no FSM needed

Now here’s a very vindicating piece from NPR this morning about child development. Despite the audio version requiring the inferior Real or Windows players, it is very delightful to see research proving how much you can do by encouraging children which then helps them learn, grow and demonstrate their potential. There are no details as to how the encouragement was delivered to the children that showed the improvements. I can only take an experienced guess that it wasn’t done by the same means my parents employed…nagging (“c’mon, you’re smarter than that”), berating or threatening. Well, the last one did work when my concert-going privileges were taken away yet I don’t think I would’ve fared any better on getting tickets to either of the two Police concerts in Houston when the Summit was the venue. I do hope more comes of this study. I can already imagine the naysaying on Fox News and other enemies of Education (wrapped in the guise of reform) claiming the researchers believe in mollycoddling children with Liberal claptrap. Personally, I feel this will help out with the nieces, nephews and other kids in my life who know me by name, then again, they’re all pretty intelligent based upon my interactions with them so I’ll only be positive reinforcement; if you don’t use your brain and make your brain grow, you’ll end up like Uncle Maggi.