Monkey Junction Day Home

Young children repeat the same thing over & over again (i.e., reading the same book, acting out the same play scheme) because they are strengthening the connections in their brain that are learning from that repeated experience.

"In addition to whatever they're learning from the experience they're repeating, they also learn valuable information about how to predict what's going to happen next, and how changing small variables affects the outcome.

For example:

From your point of view, your child gravitates toward running water in the sink as often as possible. From their point of view, one time they might be thinking about the feeling of the water running over their hands, and another time they might be listening to the sound of the water running, and another time they might be watching the visual of the water and how it cascades over any object it touches, and then they might be thinking about the temperature of the water, and then they might be thinking about the results of touching the water -- how now their hands are cold and wet and the cause-and-effect that went into that...and then they might start branching out in their experiments with how the water runs over spoons or cups in the sink, or how the water drips slowly or gushes depending on how they've opened the faucet...

There are a million million things to learn from repeated experiences. Especially when you are very young!" - The Occuplaytional Therapist

Exploring Wanuskewin

The snow feels like an early Christmas gift to these kiddos! So much white stuff to play in!