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Monday, April 27, 2015

Fairies, Witches and Non Verbal Reasoning

When children become involved in endless computer games and watch, by choice, mindless Youtube videos, then we may feel that they being insidiously corrupted. Why can't children just play?

There was a game played in Gloucester, according to Opie, many years ago – about `Fairies and Witches’. The girls seemed to be playing games with the fairies flapping their arms and witches holding their fingers as if they were claws. The witches seemed to come out of dens while the fairies had a palace for safety.

`There is a witch and she catches you.’
`And then?’
`Takes you to her corner.’
`And then?’
`Stews you.’
`And then?’
`Eats you.’
`And then?’
`Throws the bones away!’

Just think if your child started playing a rather strange game.

`There is a teacher and she teaches you Non Verbal Reasoning.’
`And then?’
Similarities and Analogies’.
`And then?’
`Series and Matrices.’
`And then?’
`Hidden pictures and Odd one out.’
`And then?’
`Reflections and Codes.’
`And then?’
`Series and Nets.’


Will children ever be the same again?

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