Clever Kids
I've been working with a client this week on a project involving the Habbo Hotel.
My son Max and his buddies are regular visitors to Habbo, so of course I discussed a few of my ideas with him.
He loved most of the stuff I showed him, as did the client.
When I came home from work today he showed me something he'd won in a Habbo competition.
It was a pretty naff prize to be honest, but what he'd done with it was just brilliant.
I kept an eye on him as he wandered around the hotel chatting.
His chat lines were so funny. Sharp barbs and one liners.
Much funnier than a lot of the stuff I'd written.
Suitably impressed, I asked him what his Habbo name was.
It was heaps better than the selection of names I'd come up with for our character.
I'm now contemplating bringing the brief home for him to work on over the weekend.
Thing is, he's only 10 years old.
Bloody kids!
posted by Stan Lee at 12:15 am
4 Comments:
Great narrative Stan. I worked in education for many years and it doesn't surprise me that kids can arrive at great ideas. The thing is however they need to be equipped with language to express and to form concepts and not all kids are given those gifts.
Kids are of course in the thick of their cultures. I completed a research project some years ago that called for me to construct very brief narrative excerpts that would then be utilised to garner comments from teens. I composed and then took the drafts to three tens and asked them to basically edit - change words, names etc to give them better sense to you (was the essential brief).
They were quick, honest and the excerpts were raised appropriately.
I would do the same thing if I was working similarly with miners or techheads or nurses.
I spent way too much time on Habbo Hotel when I was 15...
Stan, I'm glad you're working on something so apparently stimulating at the moment. Especially for such an online institution like Habbo. I hope you're Habbo dance moves live up to the concepts you showed the client!
Interesting idea Stan. I know the Habbo Hotel guys over here in the UK. One of them said to me once that as soon as an adult goes onto the site the kids rat them out within seconds because the language they use is totally different...
Sometimes I think kids can think more clearly than adults because they don't have the experiences we do. Some of the best marketing ideas I've had have come from my 2 boys.
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