Teaching lateral thinking to children.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

I couldn't help laughing when I heard this item:

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20091008-1128-Psychologist_and_parenting_expert_Nigel_Latta-048.mp3 (http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20091008-1128-Psychologist_and_parenting_expert_Nigel_Latta-048.mp3)

This from a man who considers that people who don't vaccinate are stupid.

[magical1]

mailto:nigel@goldfishwisdom.co.nz (nigel@goldfishwisdom.co.nz)

I would love to write to him but I've never heard his comments on vaccines but I can see exactly where you are coming from MT. :LMAO:

What a COMPLETE contradiction.

[MinorityView]

Sorry, after listening to a couple of minutes I was really bored and I hated his voice, so I turned it off.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

My husband had the same initial reaction MV, but I made him sit still and hear it through. In the end, he was glad he did... primarily because...no, I won't say. :ride:

[MinorityView]

Oh, all right, I'll try again. Wish I had speakers on this computer so I could do something useful...oh, I'll get out some knitting. Tonight.

[MinorityView]

Okay, I listened. All the stuff about people mindlessly following one another like sheep was pretty funny.

Does anyone have an example of his recommendations on vaccinations? I did a little searching but wasn't able to find anything specific, just blogs with pages and pages of stuff.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:g7q_H0eYgU0J:www.listener.co.nz/issue/3610/features/13652/confessions_of_a_bad_parent,1.html%3Bjsessionid%3D 9846AE81BD59BF984C50CDDC80CCA823+Latta+vaccines+He rald&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz



they can’t even manage bowel or bladder control, so what could they possibly have to say that is of any significance?), or the fact that we’ve got rid of bullrush, or the current angst over the latest “boy crisis” (you might be interested to know we’ve been having variations in the boy-crisis theme since the Industrial Revolution), or the “childhood-vaccinations-are-an-evil-medical-conspiracy” lobby, or any one of a thousand other examples of the myriad hobby horses people jump on and chase the rest of us around with.

[MinorityView]

Lord, the guy is such a bad writer! Incoherent, disorganized, sloppy and he jumps from idea to idea without even bothering to connect the points.

Thanks for finding that! Definitely not a lateral thinker himself.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

No... I suspect he has ADD on a pogo stick...

[MinorityView]

ADD--wonder if it is brain damage from his own vaccinations as a child--sad.

[3monkeys]

Yet so many people listen to him like he is the parenting guru............:(

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Which goes to show the dearth of intelligent voices out there...