This is the thing:
Kids' stuff,
No one gets hurt,
Kids are tuff,
Yet, know when to quit,
Kid's stuff,
Take and give comfort.
You see this is it:
Kids' stuff,
They'll inherit the Earth,
... continue this birth.
Though it may sound rough,
Inherit = dead parent
Get it?
Kids' stuff,
There's still time to choose,
As Jean Piaget might say,
Don't inherit their error,
Or, you, too... will lose,
Cuz adult information,
Causes mind pollution,
Generation contamination?
There's a better solution,
Starting with adult dis-convention,
Back to the simplest invention,
Then we're on our way,
To your birthday.
You can never get enough Kids' Stuff
All the children join-in.
They laugh.
They sing.
There is no problem,
At least not half,
As where they'd been,
This is the thing:
Kids' stuff,
No one gets hurt,
Kids are tuff,
Yet, know when to quit,
Kid's stuff,
Take and give comfort.
You see this is it:
Kids' stuff,
They'll inherit the Earth,
... continue this birth.
Though it may sound rough,
Inherit = dead parent
Get it?
Kids' stuff,
There's still time to choose,
As Jean Piaget might say,
Don't inherit their error,
Or, you, too... will lose,
Cuz adult information,
Causes mind pollution,
Generation contamination?
There's a better solution,
Starting with adult dis-convention,
Back to the simplest invention,
Then we're on our way,
To your birthday.
You can never get enough,
Kid stuff.
repeat chorus
NOTES
from about.com... why you do not want to become an adult --
Theories of Development: An Overview
Child Developmental Psychology
Intellectual Development
The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget also developed a stage-constructed theory of children's intellectual development. Piaget's theory, based on several decades' observations of children (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958), was about how children gradually acquire the ability to understand the world around them through active engagement with it. He was the first to recognize that infants take an active role in getting to know their world and that children have a different understanding of the world than do adults.
The question is, should a child spend a lot of time memorizing facts, as they are being fed to them by grown-ups? Jean Piaget, the world-renowned child and cognitive psychologist, would have answered "No."
Piaget had the patience and made the effort --- he had spent decades studying "errors" made by his own four children and hundreds others. His observation had formed the foundation of his theory of intellectual development, which is known as the "Theory of Knowledge Construction". According to his theory, the inquiring young mind is not a clean sheet of paper that is waiting for knowledge to be painted upon it. Instead, it actively constructs knowledge. When it comes in contact with a piece of new information, it has to understand it in a way that fits into his already established view of the world. In other words, when what kids say or do makes no sense to the grown-ups, it makes perfect sense to the kids themselves. It is when the new information does not fit into the old knowledge system that children will adjust their thinking and re-construct their knowledge so that they can understand and assimilate the new information.