Monday, April 28, 2008

Management problem?

It was a commonplace, when being left-handed was deemed to be bad for you, that children who were made to write with their right hand stammered. Not all of course.

How does this fit with my theories?

Well, I think that trying to manage too much is the big issue for PWS and that this mostly applies to how PWS think about what is important about other people. So I don't have a problem with it.

I came across a paper earlier today which described a child who stammered badly in two languages http://fla.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/36/255. The child stopped stammering when the second language was dropped.

Trying to do too much at one time or more than is required is one of the biggest problems we have in getting things done well. How the child was thinking at the time is what interests me.

I mentioned in an earlier post that when writing is extraordinarily important my hand stammers. Eh? I hear you say. When I am signing a passport application form for someone and the signature has to be legible and be contained within a box and if I get it wrong the form will be sent back and it will delay their processing and it will be my fault and they have left the application late - all of this is happening at the same time in my mind - not sequentially. I have to step back mentally and and carefully attend to altering my normal scrawl which I have difficulty reading at times.

So to mentally step back and ask ourselves 'What else do I need to know?' before launching could be a start in managing how we deal with situations or people.

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