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Andrew Phelps is a WBUR reporter and the host of Hubbub, a new blog about Boston.
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Dante
This is Dante.
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Dante is so adorable; he’s having such a good time. I absolutely love these pictures.
Dante is awesome! What’s his story?
Dante is a little boy that was playing at those fountains that spout from the ground in downtown San Diego, near the Convention Center and the entrance to Gaslamp Quarter. He was so curious and so energetic. We never met, but he was aware of the camera.
Andrew,
These Dante pictures are great. I was just emailing Kimmie about this study one of my professor’s explained to me that I think connects to Dante, so I’ll cover it here. A few years ago or so, these behavioral scientists wanted to know why little kids always make up rules for a game and then continuously change the rules mid-game. They thought it was because the kids cheat to win, but they discovered that it’s really because kids don’t want the game to end. Adults stumble across a puzzle or a question and they want to solve it or answer it. The second they’re confronted with something, they want to put it behind them. But kids aren’t like that. They’re the opposite. They make up more rules because they want the puzzle to keep expanding in its levels of complexity. The want the question to lead to infinitely more questions. That’s so beautiful. Kids don’t need games to have a point. They don’t pay attention to rules that require resolutions. They just let their games expand and continue forever (or until mom says it’s time to go home). They just play for playing’s sake. Anyway, it seems like you caught Dante testing this out, doesn’t it? Lovely job.
How adorable!!