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From the babycenter.com website on 12-14 month old kids:
"Your child probably thinks it's fun to push, throw, and knock everything down. They're not being deliberately destructive. Rather, they view the whole world as one big science experiment: What happens if I do this? And this? And this? It's exciting to be able to make things happen, whether it's unrolling all the toilet paper or yanking books off a shelf – again and again. Games that involve putting objects in containers and dumping them out again are likely to appeal to them."
I remember this phase with our little lass. Yes, she got the toilet paper. Once. And she pulled books out a couple of times. But mostly she liked to put things into containers: Magnets into purses. Chalk into buckets. Money into piggy banks. Shapes into shape-blocks. That sort of thing.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh BOY! Same principle; COMPLETELY different application with our dear son. In this past week, the "empty out and put things into containers" principle has resulted in:
his socks being sneaked into the diaper pail:
Ready.... Aim....
FIRE!
the home phone dropped in the toilet bowl (the first time I had to decide whether to take a picture or rescue the phone. I chose the phone, and took the picture on this, his second attempt):
opening the dishwasher, climbing onto the lid, and then unloading the cutlery drawer (knives first, of course):
I need to get my game on. This kid is FAST!
"Your child probably thinks it's fun to push, throw, and knock everything down. They're not being deliberately destructive. Rather, they view the whole world as one big science experiment: What happens if I do this? And this? And this? It's exciting to be able to make things happen, whether it's unrolling all the toilet paper or yanking books off a shelf – again and again. Games that involve putting objects in containers and dumping them out again are likely to appeal to them."
I remember this phase with our little lass. Yes, she got the toilet paper. Once. And she pulled books out a couple of times. But mostly she liked to put things into containers: Magnets into purses. Chalk into buckets. Money into piggy banks. Shapes into shape-blocks. That sort of thing.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh BOY! Same principle; COMPLETELY different application with our dear son. In this past week, the "empty out and put things into containers" principle has resulted in:
his socks being sneaked into the diaper pail:
Ready.... Aim....
FIRE!
the home phone dropped in the toilet bowl (the first time I had to decide whether to take a picture or rescue the phone. I chose the phone, and took the picture on this, his second attempt):
opening the dishwasher, climbing onto the lid, and then unloading the cutlery drawer (knives first, of course):
I need to get my game on. This kid is FAST!
posted by Bronwyn at 2:56 pm
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Back in one of my American Studies classes, we had a discussion one day about toys and gender differences. "Was it possible," we were asked, "for a gender neutral toy to result in different gender behaviors?" "Sure," I replied. "I loved building stuff out of LEGO as a kid. My brother loved to blow it up, break it, and generally dismantle anything in sight."
Isn't it fascinating to see how personalities provide unique lenses for viewing generalized principles??
Good luck! Just wait until he's tall enough to discover the front door knob and deadbolt.
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