Friday, October 10, 2008

Aimless Wanderings

An interesting experiment/experience is to allow your children moments of Aimless Wanderings.  It allows them to spend time with their best educator they will ever know.  

The urge of the parent is to see their children really focus on something, but what many parents do not realise is that children may not be interested in focusing on what is being offered.  A child could learn more in five minutes picking grasses and flowers than available in a battery's life of "tickles"

Brightly colored poly-vinyl-carbonate toys painted in countries that may not have the same standards you might expect for your teething child really cannot teach anything more than a well built wood block stained with natural non-toxic pigments.  

A young child is given the ability to not care about a goal, but instead to simply explore, yet often parents of children as young as five years old ask their children to perform goal oriented tasks at the end of their day when their ability to explore aimless wanderings reaches a peak.

It is at the end of these wanderings where the child achieves an answer they were seeking.  Some of these questions being answered develope quickly while others grow with the child.  

Peace

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