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<\/a>History<\/strong> But the one thing they couldn’t do before they started writing was communicate over time and distance. If you wanted to tell someone something, that person had to be standing in front of you. People created oral traditions, where they transmitted knowledge through stories, songs, and poems, but still, there had to be at least one person standing with another person communicating.<\/p>\n But then someone figured out writing. In fact, lots of people figured out writing, so it was pretty much inevitable that writing was going to happen. Once people could write, they could record their ideas, questions, observations, and history. And once they could do that, they could read other people’s ideas, questions, observations, and histories.<\/p>\n That’s what we call civilization. Writing is pretty much at the center of modern civilization.<\/p>\n So what?<\/strong> “Hey, maybe I don’t want to be civilized.”<\/p>\n OK, then go live in a cave, but not until you’re eighteen!<\/p>\n Before then, learn to write well and communicate and find out what being a good writer can do for you.<\/p>\n What writing can do for you<\/strong> Writing helps you figure out what you think about things. Sometimes when you write things down and organize them, you’ll find yourself finding out what you don’t know about a subject, or changing your opinion on an issue.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> “Why can’t I just record a Youtube video?”<\/p>\n Well, you can. And that’s a form of communication. But writing is still the fastest, most efficient, most widely accessible mode of communication there is. And writing is behind a lot of the other ways we communicate.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> They’re both different and important.<\/p>\n Other important things about writing<\/strong> I will be that you’ve heard this before: it’s really important that you learn how to write well. But why? What’s the point of writing when we have so many other ways of communicating in modern times? History First, I’m going to give you a little history. Human beings tramped around the Earth for many … Continue reading Why do we write?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/sukiwessling.com\/kidblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/KidsLearn-UseYourTools.jpg","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ksqd-talks-music\/id1703111686","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/sukiwessling.com\/kidblog\/feed\/podcast","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7DuOuT1jXWSctSexcdC97s","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"tunein":{"key":"tunein","url":"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/KidsLearn-p3854634\/","label":"TuneIn","class":"tunein","icon":"tunein.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mECGrb_UsoA&list=PLhcbiKBzJvJLnU2R4q1eSNuE_jBTCm6Iu","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/sukiwessling.com\/kidblog\/feed\/podcast\/kidslearn","embedCode":"
\nFirst, I’m going to give you a little history. Human beings tramped around the Earth for many years before they learned to write. They figured out how to make stone tools, hunt animals, and even farm before they learned how to write.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThat’s probably what you’re saying next.<\/p>\n
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\nThe main thing writing will help you do is organize your thoughts. You might think you know your opinions about global warming, pet mongooses, or Minecraft. But until you start writing your ideas down and organizing them, they’re going to be all hazy and confused inside of you.<\/p>\n
\nThe second main thing writing will do for you is to allow you to communicate with others.<\/p>\n
\nThe third thing I think is important about writing is that it’s a great way to be creative. They say “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but I think making pictures and writing about things are really different. If you wanted to draw a picture of a beautiful tree, you would draw it very differently than you would describe it in words. Neither way of communicating—drawing or writing—is better than the other, and neither way is “more true” than the other.<\/p>\n
\nI’m not going to go on. I’m going to let you think of them: What have you done with writing that has been useful or entertaining in your life? Think of some of the ways you use writing…and write them down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why do we write?<\/a><\/blockquote>