[HN Gopher] 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
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8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
Author : sharkweek
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-02-10 21:27 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| msoad wrote:
| I'm not a parent yet. For the parents out there: is there a way
| of making sure my future kid will like dinosaurs? I have so much
| to discuss with that kid!
| aok1425 wrote:
| I have the theory that if parents push an interest too hard,
| the kid will actually dislike that interest. So hopefully you
| can strike that balance / get lucky.
| a3n wrote:
| Often they'll like what you like if you talk about it and play
| with it. But you can't force it.
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| Just as fun is to like and play with what they like.
| sharkweek wrote:
| My oldest, a three-year old, is obsessed. I have done nothing
| to cultivate the interest early or specifically, he just
| gravitated toward them and now all we do is play dinosaurs.
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| That or firefighters.
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| Or sharks.
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| Or race car drivers.
| polka_haunts_us wrote:
| I was cleaning stuff out recently and found a bunch of papers
| my mom saved from like 1st grade. What I learned about myself
| is I really, really wanted to be a car mechanic. Also made me
| realize that I don't really give a hoot about what 6 year old
| me thought, these days I don't even want to change my own
| oil!
| abakker wrote:
| This is the good stuff.
| epa wrote:
| The young child has some fair merits, NPR has heavily moved its
| programming toward progressive political ideology compared to day
| to day life.
| bpodgursky wrote:
| I'm absolutely sure NPR would be happy to run a story on racial
| disparities in paleontology dig crews and the moral challenges
| and ownership rights when digging up fossils on historically
| Native American lands.
| ch4s3 wrote:
| I'm not sure that's how I would describe it, but they have
| really narrowed their focus in a way that's becoming tedious.
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| Their narrow focus on elite media/academic preoccupations has
| really made their coverage unappealing. I mean I'm interested
| in that stuff to an extent, but no everything in the world
| needs to be examined that way.
| nexthash wrote:
| What does the second part of your sentence have to do with the
| first part?
| 1123581321 wrote:
| The second part of the sentence describes some of the non-
| dinosaur content.
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