ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 29 October 2014 11:26:42AM 2 points [-]

How did you deal with the prospect of one of the kids being emotional hurt by the whole process of being explicit about relationships?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 October 2014 11:53:05AM *  1 point [-]

I of course have an eye on the emotional wellbeing of the children. But I'm not really clear what kind of emotional hurt you mean. Being exposed to e.g. be the loner possibly? I probably wouldn't try it in this relatively direct way if the group weren't that small (4 children) when I can keep the discourse inspirational and playful at all time.

Comment author: ChristianKl 29 October 2014 11:57:06AM 2 points [-]

Being exposed to e.g. be the loner possibly?

Yes. Getting children to openly state: "We can't be best friend because you are best friends with X" seems to ask for trouble but if you have enough presence in the room to keep the discourse inspirational and playful it might be fine.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 29 October 2014 12:14:52PM 3 points [-]

Ah yes. "We can't be best friend because you are best friends with X" wasn't literally said with respect to someone in the room. Something like that was quoted by a girl as an example thus it wasn't personal in that moment but I assume that it is a real statement too.