Human Behavior
Introduction
I have always found the study of human behavior
vary exciting.
Games Kids Play
The Shopping Game
While shopping for food, the mother goes to the shelf and
gets the items off the shelf and puts them in the basket. She is very careful
in selecting the items that the family needs. When she is done with the list,
she goes to the check out, with coupons, and the cashier checks out the items.
As the final total come up, the mother is shocked, and frustrated. Instead of
coming to $100.00, the total comes to $700.00. One of two human behaviors
arises from this situation. First, the mother screams and shouts at the casher
the casher is wrong and made a big mistake. The second, is this, the mother horrified,
walks out of the store, rushes home to unload the groceries, then checks the
family budget to see were they can do without. The next week is spent with the
mother looking for a full time job, seeing what kind of job her five year old
can do, and what tricks the dog needs to learn to end up in a movie.
The reality of all this is quite simple. While shopping, the
mother is to busy getting the food for the family, that she dose not notice the
five year old putting items in the cart while she is shopping. The solution to
the problem is to bring another adult along. So when the mother is shopping,
and the child is putting the food into the cart, there is the third person
taking the items out of the cart that the child originally put in.
Now, if you have two kids in the cart, you really need
another adult with you. While the child sitting in the seat is putting unwanted
items into the cart, the child in the cart is getting buried. And the kid in
the cart would think that this is fun at first, but after a short while, the
cart child will start throwing the items out of the cart, hitting the floor.
Just be careful in stores with you break it you buy it policies. Now with three
children, one putting items into the cart, one throwing items out of the cart,
the third child will step on the item, and watch the contents go all over the
floor.
Solution, call a baby sitter. Or better yet, a friend who
owes you a favor, or a grandparent, or a relative. If you are still having
troubles, plead with them, beg them, take them out to eat, but not with the
kids.
Chapter 3
This chapter is a short chapter. It is a well know fact that
people do not read books that have all long chapters in them. They start
counting pages and always wondering how many pages they still have to read to
get through the book. Likewise, all short chapter books have the opposite
effect. The reader looks at the chapters and say, “That’s it! Why didn’t they
write more.” That is a very common complaint for the short chapter books. That
means that there must be variations between chapters. Some chapters must be
long, while other chapters must be short. If a writer does not have these
different lengths of chapters in their books, then people will become board and
not read the book.
That is why I am writing this very short chapter in this
book.
Chapter 4
No wait, this chapter is shorter.
Chapter 5
