Reverse Psychology

I was published on the lovely and talented Vanessa Van Petten’s site, thank you for the traffic, the plug, and the chance to have my voice heard elsewhere than just my blog.

http://www.onteenstoday.com/2008/07/08/reverse-psychology/#more-864

I got this email from Mark Wiland and thought I would throw it up on my teen tuesday as he is a young 18 year-old writer and blogger at Fly on the Wall.  I don’t know, if my parents told me not to mow the lawn, I probably wouldn’t, it might take a few years of reverse psychology for this to work = )

KID THEORY

Parents, let’s face it, kids are going to do things behind your back. I’m 18 and I never did anything super bad behind my parents back, but here’s my proposition. I’ll make you a deal, parents. I’ll give you a few tips on how to keep kids intact, and sell out on my own kind. Not like they were ever nice to me anyway.

 

So parents, why do kids do things? Well, people say celebrities endores products or are just immitatible, and kids will do whatever they see them doing. No, that’s dumb. A kid isn’t going to play Basketball because he watched a Knicks game. He’s going to do it because he WANTS to. He’s going to think it’s fun and he enjoys it. There’s another theory that they see parents acting wrong, and they emminate that. That’s dumb too. They do it for the learning experience.

 

Here’s a short example.

I got dumped recently by the girl of my dreams, and I’m not dating anymore, that much intimacy just frightens me. But she was my world, and as scarred as I am from it, I realize it was a very good experience, because it taught me a lot about myself, and the opposite sex. So here’s my theory.

 

Kids are told not to smoke because they are told it’s wrong, and that’s called reverse physchology, and it works on EVERYONE, no matter what YOU think. You ever see those youtube bulletins that say “DON’T READ THIS!” What do you do? YOU OPEN IT! Because you’re INTERESTED, AND they told you you shouldn’t! Kids do things they aren’t supposed to because they’re told NOT TO.

 

So my proposal.

 

Let’s use this reverse physchology to our advantage, and tell kids to do things that are good, but say it like it’s BAD. Let me explain. Don’t say “Billy, don’t ever smoke, it’s bad for you.” Because they’ll want to. Say, “Billy, don’t go mowing the lawn, you could hurt yourself on those blades.” What’s Billy going to do? He’s going to mow the lawn, because he was told he SHOULDN’T! Being told we can’t do something drives teens and kids CRAZY!

 

We feel, well, I’m an adult now, but THEY feel they should have the right to do whatever they want. So more examples. Tell a kid, “You shouldn’t wash your own clothes, let me do it!” They’ll wash their clothes. Or tell them, “You shouldn’t speak kindly around me and use words like ’sir’, ‘madam’ or ‘please & thank you’, you should curse at me!” They’re going to start being kinder.

 

It’s only a theory. But hey, who knows? Now, DON’T read my blog.

 

Mark Wiland is a young 18 year-old writer and blogger at Fly on the Wall.

Sonography

So I have a friend named Dani. She married her sweetheart Rob, and she has been a great friend of mine for years now. I met her on livejournal while basically starting The Passion Of The Jew. Anywho, we’ve been playing e-mail tag for the past couple days because of what went down in my family and the great loss I suffered recently, and she told me in the last one she sent that she was finally heading back to school to achieve the goal of becoming an ultrasound technician. Sonography and the like. Basically, here’s the ultrasound definition:

ul·tra·sound Audio Help [uhl-truh-sound] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. Physics. sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, approximately the upper limit of human hearing.
2. Medicine/Medical. the application of ultrasonic waves to therapy or diagnostics, as in deep-heat treatment of a joint or imaging of internal structures.

Basically, it’s what they use when they wanna check out a pregnant woman’s baby, when it’s still growing in her womb. I realized she could have so much fun screwing with the parents on this. She could be in the ultrasound room, with the fetus up on screen, and everybody is laughing, smiling, cheerful, having a good time, grandparents are there, and then she could just go blank, and say something like, “Oh my god….OH MY GOD….THIS BABY HAS A THIRD LEG!!!!” Just to freak them out. So much fun could be had. Or, if she wasn’t married, and she liked the husband, she could look at the screen and say, “Oh my god! This kid is AFRICAN AMERICAN!” And he’d storm out, because he’d think the wife was cheating on him, and then she could go after him.
Actually, this goes for ANY ultrasound technician.
So much fun to be had in the hospital.

Besides, not like you KNOW these people personally.

m@rk