Parenting on a Rollercoaster
It’s a sad day when your child destroys a beloved book. And it poses a dilemma: put the books on a higher shelf and limit your child’s free access to them OR leave the books lower, within their reach, but risk their destruction? The good news is that there’s another option.
Halloween and associated activities can get the adrenaline pumping in any of us but it can be especially scary and real to young children. Kids between the ages of two and four are still learning to distinguish between what is pretend and what is real. They have not yet developed the cognitive capacity to differentiate that on their own. Everything that enters their brains is treated equally at this age. And that can spill over into their dreams.
What about our young kids makes them programmed to love repetition? Why is this a universal characteristic? Should we be redirecting them to other, more novel, tasks and entertainment? Or should we cater to their preferences for sameness? Let’s take a look at some of the science behind this and perhaps we can take the edge off at the same time.
This time of year is the one time of year that even those who never decorate for any other holiday pull out at least a…