Goddard Shorts and Kerry Tribe video

Immediately upon watching these videos I thought of the Freudian theories of when the ego and the superego are fully formed, which I believe he theorized around the age of 10.  I also remember being told that the idea that personal identity doesn't start to manifest until the age of 10, these could be the same theories and apart of the same memory but I'm a little confused on it now.  Anyway, these notions started to affect the way that I was watching the Goddard shorts.  I began to think of the subjects he was interviewing as in some strange way unaware of themselves.  I don't interact with young children very often, but somehow their responses seemed apathetic.  As if they didn't have the capability of understanding Goddard was pining for their viewpoint on identity.  This was very interesting because I cannot remember myself before I was truly aware of my identity.  Then I thought that maybe to a young excitable child the questions were just boring, tricky questions that they didn’t want to put energy into. 
I thought that the children acted differently from the children that I have interacted with.  Most children that I have interacted with are excitable and proud.  They seem to generally enjoy talking about themselves and their daily actions.  In my experience, once you get a child talking about something at school they go into every single detail and haven't learned the notion of highlighting the interesting parts for who ever they are speaking with.  The Goddard children seem quite and humble.  I began to relate these differences to cultural differences.  American children seem narcissistic where as these children were anything but.  I wondered if I was projecting and making illogical connections due to my limited interaction with children.
Some of the questions that Goddard was asking seemed inconsequential to the notions of self-image.  Like the question if the children thought they should get paid for being in school, if school is working to them.  I wondered if he was equating the level of importance in working to a paycheck, and if he was digging to see if the children thought the work they were doing in school equated to the work of their fathers.

The Kerry Tribe video was interesting because it gave me the chance to see the responses of an american child or so I assume.  The child was much more confident in her responses and willing to expand on her viewpoint of the question.  The child is also the daughter of the questioner, which that level of comfort with the interviewer could explain the confidence in the response.  After watching the Kerry Tribe video, I realized that maybe I just have an allusion about the way in which children act and think.  The dual video projections were nice and some of the images were serene, but I didn't really see the connection with the interview footage.  Like the landscape images and the image of a chair in a hallway, they exist and they are images but why those particular images were lost on me.

Both the Goddard and the Tribe piece left me a little unimpressed unfortunately.  It’s possible that I'm too stupid or cynical to see the weight of the videos.  I attribute some of the importance of the Goddard work to the rise in interest in existentialism in the 50's, 60's, and 70's.  So Goddard asking questions of existence to young children is quite a profound idea.  I think the main reason that I am a little disappointed is because the responses of the children are simple and unentertaining.  So many of the responses were "yes" "no" "I don't know".