Comments on: Talking To Yourself

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:35 +0000

Jaymaster: you have no idea how often a blog post starts with a dream or a running argument with myself. %-)

By: cardeblu

cardeblu — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:29:11 +0000

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

By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:23:53 +0000

No doubt its excellent preparation for blogging too.

By: Kristian H

Kristian H — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:41:53 +0000

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. Kristian H's last blog post..I often wonder what he is thinking?

By: jrogge

jrogge — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:16:10 +0000

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. :)

By: La Ventanita

La Ventanita — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:57:52 +0000

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!

By: jodyneel

jodyneel — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:50:58 +0000

While I also talk to myself, I’m curious about the breakdown of theÂ result. The writeup says:

78 percent of the children performed either the same or better on the performance task when speaking to themselves than when they were silent.

Â 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 makesÂ x% = 28%. In this case,Â 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 =Â 23% and 22% did worse.

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By: Maniakes

Maniakes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:49:56 +0000

The problem with talking to yourself is that half the time you know what you’re gonna say next.

By: kenmccracken

kenmccracken — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:28:55 +0000

Talking to yourself: healthy.

Arguing with yourself: not so much.

By: Snippet

Snippet — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:55:27 +0000

Me too!