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In article <BzDrGA.Lwr.2@cs.cmu.edu> mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis) writes:
>...  I don't intend the game to be completely silly,
>but I do think that it must be somewhat light-hearted.  Children are not
>very serious, and I think a game played in a purely serious manner would
>not do them justice.
>

Hmm.  Are we trying to dream up a game about children-as-viewed-by-adults or
are we trying to get closer to how children view themselves and the world?  I
don't think children, even small ones, view themselves as 'silly' much more
often than adults do.  My kids are serious (but kid-serious) a lot of the time
- it's just that what they're serious about isn't so important to many adults.
We think of kids as having a 'short attention span' - but my daughters can
spend hours doing whatever's important to them: drawing picture after picture,
for example.  When the older one was two and we gave her a bunch of Duplo
blocks, her first project was building a tower taller than she was.  The
younger one has an eagle-eye for animals; it's tremendously important to pet
the neighbours' cat whenever she meets him.  I recall a 1.5-year old who loved
to take shoes out of the cupboard and line them up in a row.

My point in most of these examples is that kids can be *very* serious about
things that are important *to them*.

On a somewhat different topic: There's lots of evidence that kids, especially
small ones, (a) learn faster (b) react more creatively, than adults.