{"id":6894,"date":"2004-12-08T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/08\/where-was-this-research-during-the-game.html"},"modified":"2004-12-08T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T14:04:09","slug":"where_was_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/where_was_this.html","title":{"rendered":"Where was this research during the game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surely this would have been handy during the Grimm Therapy<\/a> game. A study of childhood “imaginary friends”<\/a> (which 65% of all kids seem to have at some point or another) reveals:<\/p>\n

* While preschool girls were more likely to have an imaginary companion, by age 7 boys were just as likely as girls to have one.<\/p>\n

* 27 percent of the children described an imaginary friend that their parents did not know about.<\/p>\n

* 57 percent of the imaginary companions of school-age youngsters were humans and 41 percent were animals. One companion was a human capable of transforming herself into any animal the child wanted.<\/p>\n

* Not all imaginary companions are friendly. A number were quite uncontrollable and some were a nuisance.<\/p>\n

You got that last point right, brother …<\/p>\n

Katherine does not have any imaginary friends. That, of course, we know about.<\/p>\n

My imaginary friend was Munga, and I remember having very long conversations with him. I don’t recall him as being particularly human or animal (he was, after all, invisible), and I sometimes wonder where he wandered off to.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surely this would have been handy during the Grimm Therapy game. 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