Why do children have more curiosity than adults?
Children has less experience than adults so they are eager to know all things that comes new to their sight.
How can I regain the curiosity I had as a child?
I did some soul searching and I thought if I change some aspects in my life I could be as happy as I was back then! Things are changing for me, and I hope I regain my curiosity along with it. Here are some observations and changes I've made in my life:Whenever something catches your eye never think that it might not be perceived as cool. We fall victims into how we're judged by the society and we tend to ignore things which don't garner attention. When you look at kids, you see that they don't think twice before asking you about yucky things.Another thing we do as we grow up is we start processing information faster and faster. To keep up with the new influx of information your mind stops asking questions and just accepts the facts which come into your brain. Start doing one thing at a time, unless your day job asks for multi-tasking. When you start doing things one at a time is when you think deeply about it, and you start asking questions.Start explaining things in layman's terms to someone (or kids). This really helped me a lot. I personally started understanding things better and this really leaves some open ended questions in your mind at the end of your explanation. But don't forget to note those questions down. at least I know that I used to forget such things, I found an app just for that: Flava. I use this to note down all the questions I get, I go back to the app and I google them one by one during commute. If you don't have many opportunities to explain something in layman's terms, follow the Layman's Explanations topic here on Quora. Try answering them when you have some free time.Start watching Discovery and National Geographic channels along with your kids/nephews instead of primetime nonsense (yes including news). At one point in time, we lost interest in these things. If you're worried about not keeping up with the News, I personally feel skimming through Google News is far more than necessary if you're not into journalism.There are other things I'm trying to change in my life, but I've listed ones I felt were relevant here. Hope this helps someone.
I don’t have a child, but out of curiosity would you let your children play with fake guns and baby dolls?
Some background/context first.I have two sons.I live in Australia, where gun ownership is limited to people who can show a need for a gun.And now, my answer.Children learn about the world through pretend play. When they play with a toy, they're learning about the world in some way. When my sons were preschool age and younger, I was fairly particular about the toys they had.They didn't have toy guns. Guns are used for one purpose only: to kill. Play guns are used to play kill.They did have toy dolls. Dolls represent people, either little adults or babies. They’re used to play out social scenarios of various kinds. Sometimes that's play based around nurturing. Sometimes that's play based around armies attacking each other. Either way, that's the child's choice.You can't use guns to learn about nurturing.That didn't stop my boys building guns out of Lego or sticks or spoons, and I didn't discourage them from doing so. I simply didn't provide them with toys that only had the single purpose of causing death at a distance.Now that they're a bit older (10 and 6), I'm less restrictive. They're still learning about the world through their play, but they have a stronger grasp on the difference between stories and reality.
Just out of curiosity how do jewish parents get their children so well behaved?
While I can't speak for all Jewish people, I was raised in a very Orthodox home (my parents let me join the Reform congregation when I turned 13), in a neighborhood of other very Orthodox families, and it is generally accurate to say that people looked out for each other. There was never a moment when children were playing in the street without a parent watching (anyone's parent, it didn't matter, if you did something bad your friend's mom told your mom, so it was like she had been there herself) and that we didn't feel safe. Another tactic employed by my parents was to very early on teach me that G-d was always watching, and it was much worse to disappoint Him than to disappoint them. ("Even if we don't know... G-d will!") Jewish parents are very aware (again, I apologize for speaking on behalf of all Jews, but here goes) of how their children act in public when the entire family is out. Many of them don't want to be embarrassed, and it was an issue with my Orthodox parents (who dress very "Jewishly," like most Hasidic Jews) that when we were out of our neighborhood, we were like ambassadors of Judaism or something, so people who did not know any Jews would judge future Jews by our behavior. In the home, my parents taught me to be inquisitive (not insolent, that's a different story), following the teachings of Maimonides who said that Jews have the right to seek answers to their questions about Judaism. They taught me that the most important things in life are respect for G-d, respect and love for others, respect for myself, responsibility to do the best I possibly can for myself and for others, in a religious and real-world setting, and a solid work ethic - in that order. I can't say that I've learned all of those things, but they sure tried to teach me, and I still try to do as they taught me in my everyday life. So, the short answer is: by starting young, by being actively involved in the child's life, and by encouraging a healthy degree of respect.
Do all children have a tendency to kill insects out of curiosity or is that a sign of psychopathy?
I'd say curiosity but also fascination. Empathy skills are not fully developed in children and certainly not for insects. I've done all of these as a kid: cut a worm in half to see if it became two worms; sprinkled salt on slugs to watch the fascinating way they withered up; used a magnifying glass to burn an ant to death — the curiosity here was about the magnifying glass not the ant; when I lived in Malaysia for a few years, I'd have to drown hundreds of ants in the sink before I could wash my face in the morning, so my sister and I would lay bets on the last one to survive; we’d also stomp cockroaches in the laundryroom. But death is one thing, torture another: I don't remember pulling wings off flies or legs off spiders — I hope I'd have felt bad about the immobile blobs that were left — but if I was young enough I might not have.Anyway, I’ve never hurt an animal or a person, and rank high in empathy now. So don't be too quick to diagnose!
How do you deal with too much curiosity?
Curiosity is a good thing, even if your curiosity ranges over many things. Isaac Asimov (or was it A.C. Clark?) wrote that his curiosity about diverse things made him like a child walking through an orange grove. He saw so many juicy oranges, and grabbed one to hold. But there were so many juicy oranges! He’d no sooner grab one than another would catch his interest and he’d grab that one. He picked so many that he couldn’t hold them all. That’s what his curiosity was like.It is important to control your curiosity, though. If you try to learn about too many things, you won’t learn much about any of them. I know, because I was that kid in the orange grove too, and I’ve dropped a lot of oranges!It is important to find a few things that you’re curious about and focus on them. Find out all you can about them, and once you’ve mastered them you can move on to other things. But never, never regret being curious. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it is what makes (and keeps) life interesting!F��G"
How do you satisfy YOUR curiosity?
LOL! My curiosity! Tall order, Patz, as I am endlessly curious! I was always one of those children to whom a simple answer to a question was never good enough! I always had to know WHY? :-)) My Mom was wonderful. She permitted an awful lot of exploration and experimentation, and always seemed to have time to say, "Well, let's go look that up!" My parents were the kind of people who would answer a question with "Well, what do YOU think?" My parents had a great, huge dictionary, and an encyclopedia, and kept magazines like National Geographic all over the place. These were all well-used, let me tell you! And, this brings me to the main way that I satisfy my curiosity - I read! I love my Mom dearly, and owe her a great debt, for making my sister and I (Each of her four children, actually!) into voracious bookworms! She read to us. She read with us. There was ALWAYS time for a trip to the library! How much time we spent there, and what huge armfuls of books we brought home! How many hours I spent reading! (And yes, I have thanked her! Many times!) To this day, when there is something that I wonder about, I read! Books! Newspapers! The Internet! Look it up! Read up on it! Find out! And, LOL sooner or later, I wonder about almost EVERYTHING! One of my favorite quotes is by William Butler Yeats: "Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire." My parents certainly lit a fire under each of us! I also still ask a LOT of questions! All of my friends know that I am VERY nosy (um, curious!) but that there is no harm in it; no unkind intent. I simply want to know Why? and find out all about it, whatever "it" may be! :-)) Done? Never done! :-)) Always something new to learn! Funny how an open mind always seems to hold so much, and a closed one contains so little!