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Note to self: Communicating with kids
I reflected over a conversation I have ever so often with my oldest kid, since it resembled something I picked up when reading about GUI dialog design.
The conversation normally takes place at the dinner table.
Me: Do you want more dinner?
Villads: No
Me: Are you sure?
Villads: silence
Villads silence has many reasons, it can be that he has started to play LEGOs or watch TV.
If I continue inquiring he will most likely respond: No
Which is of course not what he means, but it is the easy response.
So I need to practice dialogue with him to I can give him a proper chance to respond correctly to my questions.
Same pattern is important for graphical GUIs where I sometimes find myself confused about a certain dialogue, where positive and negative answers are required to complete a certain action. You often click the wrong button because of this.
So I do not blame Villads for giving misleading answers - I blame myself for confusing him.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Obviously... (Score:1)
The trendier thing to do would be not to ask at all and provide an "undo" option [alistapart.com]. :)
Re: (Score:2)
Once in a while I put the plate in the kitchen in case of hunger, but eating habits is not really the issue, it is, but that is a different story. Anyway the dialogue is the problem and I need to be approach Villads differently in order to carry out proper conversations with him, instead of capturing him with weird adult non-sense, the situation simply reminded me of user experiences from GUIs.
Re: (Score:1)
A random book recommend, How to talk so kids will listen, and listen so kids will talk. I have to say from personal experience that the advice really works.
alternatively (Score:1)
like most uis, maybe he could benefit from less distractions (eg not allow legos or tv at the dinner table.)
Re: (Score:2)
That is one good solution. Focus on so many other activities around dinner, like the younger brother, cooking and setting the table - means that we often forget to turn off the TV and completely remove the LEGOs, which are then just simply moved to the end of the table.
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heh, I can relate.