{"id":26808,"date":"2015-03-03T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/with-insight-informed-but-not-dictated-by-her\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T10:38:16","slug":"with-insight-informed-but-not-dictated-by-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/with-insight-informed-but-not-dictated-by-her\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With insight informed, but not dictated, by her psychoanalytical training, McFarland understood just how hard children work at learning to control their bodily fluids. Potty training is no picnic for parents, but imagine it from the point of view of the child. It\u2019s a pretty big, anxiety-laced deal. So Rogers created segments where he examined the everyday flow of water in bathtubs, and he showed films of children damming up streams\u2014a way of manipulating and controlling fluids\u2014and looking at waterfalls (which can be both scary and exciting at the same time). \u2018And then, finally \u2026 a tiny fire\u2014and I mean tiny\u2014in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe,\u2019 Rogers said. \u2018We didn\u2019t show flames, just some smoke; and the fire was put out in half a minute by the make-believe fire people.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><i>Sally Ann Flecker<\/i> at <i>PittMed<\/i>. When Fred Met Margaret<\/p>\n<p>The attention to child development in the Mister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood program is under-appreciated. In general, and in everyday life, most of us don\u2019t notice how hard children work at learning. Play is serious business.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/protoslacker.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">protoslacker<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With insight informed, but not dictated, by her psychoanalytical training, McFarland understood just how hard children work at learning to control their bodily fluids. Potty training is no picnic for parents, but imagine it from the point of view of the child. It\u2019s a pretty big, anxiety-laced deal. So Rogers created segments where he examined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Yo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}