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   Treon Verdery to All   
   Things that fill children with happiness   
   06 Sep 22 10:01:24   
   
   From: treon3verdery@gmail.com   
      
   Most children like their names, perhaps software could take their favorite   
   songs and say their names, psychologically quantified as fun, happiness   
   causing and being beneficial or harmless    
   The wheels on the bus go round and round song is software modified to "when   
   Treon's in the car we go go go, go go go, when Treon's in the car we go go go   
   all through the town" or "head, shoulders knees and toes" is software modified   
   to "head shoulders    
   knees and toes, head shoulders knees and toes, Serina's eyes ears mouth and   
   nose, head shoulders knees and toes"   
   The software encourages the child to sing along, perhaps listening through the   
   microphone, cortana child advisor or amazon echo dot,   
   Also they could reconfigure the alphabet song to letter along with the   
   person's name, pqr s,e,r,I,n,a tuv or qrs t, r, e, o, n, uvw or also a   
   friend's name, or their crush's name if it continued to be popular all the way   
   to junior high (tween) age   
      
   A couple of the children liked speaking from knowledge and certainty, one of   
   the children liked telling me about things in his life, some of them were just   
   naturally social   
      
   Teach children to navigate towards things that make them happy, I think   
   children do this some already but maybe it can be learned,   
   Activation energy compared with habit or convenience   
      
   Things that move around on their own seem to attract enjoyment and comment,   
   rats in 4th grade got lots of comments and attention, perhaps some self   
   righting roomba like robots that you can give treats, or see see o playmate   
   props   
      
   Hands in the air actually does lift up the fun at raves, it is possible that   
   they could find physical motions that quantitatively make children happier   
   like skipping, hands in the air, a certain kind of accomplished feeling when   
   wiggling ears, moving    
   hairline back and forth or curling tongue, happy running can be fun for some   
   children, dance and gymnastics could have more of that   
      
   Optimizing the interval between taking turns could optimize fun for some   
   children, in kindergarten we did a thing where everyone formed a circle, the   
   group floated up the parachute and a person ran under the big white floaty   
   thing and it was fun, it    
   seems possible there is a middle of the distribution of how long between   
   different children's turns it is to cause the most enjoyment and even   
   happiness, when they find that interval out then they can utilize it at live   
   amusements, voluntary dance and    
   gymnastics components of choreography, and the intervals of activity at   
   software and toys that entertain children; they could have utilized a   
   plurality of parachutes and each child would get to go more times; also   
   children amusing themselves practice    
   their own intervals of fun, I might notice the same child running, walking,   
   looking at something, and sometimes skipping at their own pace, an average of   
   the changes of activity of children doing things at their own pace could be an   
   interval to vary    
   durations around, although I perceive most people like things slightly faster   
   than their natural change of pace because it makes things more engaging and   
   exciting;    
      
   They could also ask children what they look forward to and then make a list,   
   and then do some of the things and find out if the children have fun   
      
   at Blossom Gulch Elementary school the children I share and teach reading with   
   often look forward to activity changes, (the beep that says change groups, or   
   the class going to lunch) there is something about this that is different than   
   looking forward to    
   the next activity, or non conscious behavioral reinforcement (I think a   
   scientist might tell me people look forwards to lunch, automatically, without   
   a rationalized version in their mind because of previous often pleasant   
   reinforcements), perhaps having    
   a transition between activities occur twice as often would cause enjoyment,   
   also to benefit children that liked what they were doing each station could   
   sometimes include the option to do what they were previously doing   
      
   Czickmenhalis  flow idea, alththe children's version   
      
   A handheld light up bar graph where you tried, and usually succeeded, and   
   sometimes made it into the "way to go" range when singing would give children   
   singing in groups something more to do; I sang along enough to qualify as   
   singing but not so much as    
   to get noticed, it is possible that singing louder, but still in tune with the   
   group, for some children, is more fun, a volume meter might provide feedback   
   and rapt attention that replaces self consciousness, sort of like a pilot   
   flying with their    
   instruments, the meter could also sing in harmony with you, it could have   
   in-tune width and vertical volume   
      
   Acoustic node quietization speakers on schoolbuses, children conversing on   
   school buses is awesome, school bus noises are not, although electric school   
   buses may instantly solve this   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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