Dreaming in process

Friday, November 10, 2006

Sadness

Today, I managed to catch the show "Child of Our Times" at 10.20pm, missed a bit though. This episode is featuring a cute girl named "Rhianna". It's about how father and mother roles affect a child's development.

Rhianna

It is an interesting show and one experiment done with the girl surprised me, and even the researchers. The kids were given a picture of a happy face and a sad face. Then, they were asked to listen to a radio where a woman read out her speech. The kids were asked to identify whether the woman sounded happy or sad.

Most kids had difficulties identifying. When it's Rhianna's turn, she said that the happy face was her mum's face and the sad face was his dad's. Later, when she heard the radio with the woman speaking in a sad tone, Rhianna pointed to the happy face.

She was asked to give a reason and the reason she gave was, "People usually show their happiness, they don't show unhappiness. Sadness are hidden." Therefore, she felt that in public, a person will not show his sadness, that's why she chose the happy face.

Mmm, dun you find it amazing that the words came from a child under 5 years old? A young kid knows that humans tend to hide their feelings, keeping their sadness inside their hearts, not telling to anyone. It'a a bit mature for kids to think that way and rather unhealthy cos they will bottle up their feelings and in the end, they will grow up being emotionally unhealthy ba...

However, sadly, we adults do the same thing too, aren't we?

dreaming @ 12:07 AM

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