Have you ever noticed after watching a comedian, say John Steward or Seinfeld, that you have their canter of joke telling in your mind next time you say something witty. The pauses and the head motion or eyes.
Or the last time you watched a love movie with your partner, how you may have sat a little closer, or hugged them longer before falling asleep that night.
Or maybe you modified your garden after reading a french novel that detailed out beautiful landscaping within a scene of the book.
Wrote a note to yourself about a holiday tradition after watching or reading about a lovely idea you think your family would enjoy.
Watch a professional game, and try some of the strategies we saw next time we're on the field.
This list could go on, but also what about books of fables, prayers, jakatas, proverbs, Berenstain bears, and other books with virtuous plots that help teach your child life's examples through story. And if we're reading a book that isn't directly for this purpose, do we pull out notable events of human interactions: "gee, that boy was mean, how do you think the other person felt." "That girl used a bad word, in our family, we choose not to use that word."
At what point in our child or adult life do we stop learning from the content we ingest and consume something purely for the purpose of entertainment. I'm bringing to awareness the justification adults make for themselves or for their children about watching/reading something that is violent, aggressive, mean, discriminating, or any other adjective to describe behavior we ought not mimic. "It's just entertainment, [it doesn't effect me]".
Is that possible?
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