It’s good for you, especially at an early age.
That’s a relief. I talk to myself, and answer myself, all the frickin’ time.
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It’s good for you, especially at an early age.
That’s a relief. I talk to myself, and answer myself, all the frickin’ time.
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I am really glad to hear that.
Me too!
Talking to yourself: healthy.
Arguing with yourself: not so much.
The problem with talking to yourself is that half the time you know what you’re gonna say next.
While I also talk to myself, I’m curious about the breakdown of the result. The writeup says:
 but I didn’t see any other percentages.
So we know that 22% did worse, x% did better, y% were unaffected and x + y = 78.
If we assume that like most things in life, for most kids it made no difference, then let’s assign a y = 50%, which makes x% = 28%. In this case, private speech helps 28% but hurts 22% – a result I would interpret as "generally doesn’t hurt or help". However, it may be the case that it does help, such that x = 45%, y = 23% and 22% did worse.
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Dean, rest easy….I not only have conversations with myself, but a close friend once told me I was the only person he knew who could have arguments with herself!
Hrrmmm…
Makes me wonder if doing away with the "Blab Schools" in the 1800’s was a bad idea. They basically did just that, made the kids talk out their answers. In fact they got in trouble for being quiet.
My 3 yr old has long, funny sounding conversations with himself. He sings to himself too. My wife and I love just standing out of sight and listening to him talk, explore and just comment on what he is seeing. Makes the whole world seem new again.
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No doubt its excellent preparation for blogging too.
As long as it’s not this kind of conversation (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DLvIFRNbqOs), then I think it’s quite natural, normal, and healthy.Â
Jaymaster: you have no idea how often a blog post starts with a dream or a running argument with myself. %-)
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