Do you know any kids that narrate their lives?

I used to do this constantly! I guess it is a little odd; no one else ever says, "Hey, me too!" when I mention it...heehee. I don't think I did it out loud, but it was pretty much a constant track running in my mind for most of my childhood, even, if I'm gonna be way honest, into my teens-- what?! Don't look at me like that!

.....she snapped, then stomped off in a huff, hoping all the while that she looked okay from the back...

Yaya is just going through a stage.....it'll pass.

My 9 year old is doing this now..."I gotta question...." every five minutes. I have a 10 year old niece doing it also....DRIVES ME BATTY!

I just smile, let him ask his question and then answer him. I know it'll pass soon too. But you put both of them together, and LAWDY!

Plus he's narrating alot of the shows he's watching...lmao

I still do it.....

I was just reading something about how this narrative stuff is really important, cognitively.

Sozlet did it for a bit, forget what age. How old is Yaya now?

I can't imagine it being a social problem at this point...

Well, and now that I think about it, why not? I'm always imagining how I'd paint or draw things as I walk around, so why not be imagining how I'd write a description of it? It's just a kind of mental rehearsal, isn't it?

I'd imagine that YaYa will stop doing it out loud, but I bet continuing to do it as an internal thing might just lead to being a good writer...

I don't know nothing about it, but it sounds awfully dang cute.

There was a comedy called "Eat and Run" about 20 years ago where the main character (played by Ron Silver) does that throughout the movie. After watching it, from time to time my wife would start it.

In the movie, alien Murray Creature arrives on Earth, and devolops a taste for Italian (people, not food). It's best seen when you've had a few.

apparantly none of you have been watching that smash hit, "The Chai Tea Show"

It's on every day at, well, all the time.



I can't recall what age yaya is either, but I'm betting it's normal at her age.
I'm thinking of a little girl I knew, I'm betting she was yaya's age at the time....I was meeting with her dad, so we set her up in the conference room with the whiteboard and colored markers. When we came back in, she'd drawn a detailed picture of her family....if it had been to scale, she would have been about 7 feet tall, her mom and baby sister were equal size at about 5 foot, and dad....well....when I first saw the picture I asked "Is that your baby brother"?

Something about seeing yourself as the center of the universe....I think that goes away for awhile, and reemerges in a more annoying fashion during the teen years.

To say nothing of those who see themselves that way forever...

The first time I realized I had been doing something like what you've described was when I heard Bill Cosby talking about how one of his characters was always humming the background music of his life.... then he went up the stairs..dah dum dah dum dahdum...

It may be part of the modern condition but we, everyone, sometime see our lives as movies or tele-plays or one-acts, sometimes with music, sometimes without, sometimes with narration ---- now Joe Nation has the ball, the clock is ticking down..... he fakes to his left and lets it fly!!!! ... OH!!!!! JUST SHORT!!! but HE GETS THE BALL AGAIN and and and

(who knows how that great season ended???)

The kid probably will become a fabulous screenwriter.


Do you remember in the movie "Almost Famous" where the kid imagines himself being interviewed?

Joe(he preparing for a life in the spotlight.)Nation

Perfectly normal--one of the symptoms of a child who has been read to and who has enjoyed being read to.

Too bad you named a kid after a hard boiled egg.

Four.

Do you recall where you read the article?

I've been trying to remember that. I'll look around.

Chai sits back, waiting for soz to find the information.

Concept Map

"self-narration is a complicated process"

(lots of interesting reading on self-narratives through Google - one especially interesting one suggesting that ability to self-narrate is a crucial developmental marker - it's a Googlebook (who knows how to link those properly?)

Oh, goodie, I'm way developed..

Encouraging, isn't it.

I thought that when I walked from the living room to the kitchen saying, "Beth is going to turn down the oven and check the broth, Beth is turning down the oven AND checking the broth", that I was just working a senior moment. Now I know, I'm self-narrating and that is a good thing.