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I read this as I watched my 2 year old daughter joyfully scrub the shower with a nylon brush. She's demanded the brush ever since she watched me use it months a
by jkoudys 7y ago
I read this as I watched my 2 year old daughter joyfully scrub the shower with a nylon brush. She's demanded the brush ever since she watched me use it months ago.
I think finding lovely things tedious is something most of us learn, then unlearn.
- viraptor 7y agoIt's still new and exciting when you're 2. I don't think you're unlearning loving the tedious. Things are just not tedious at that point, but fun, novel, and optional. If she didn't want to scrub the shower, she wouldn't. But we have to do it.
- jkoudys 7y agoOh no, little kids absolutely love familiar, boring, repetitive things. They also like routine a lot and can get upset when given too much choice. Look at how often toddlers want to re-watch the same cartoon over and over.
- cerberusss 7y agoJust give them a different spoon with their morning porridge and watch the drama unfold :D
- pushpop 7y agoSo true. So very true. I wish I could up vote this more than once.
- indemnity 7y agoJust finished bath time with new toys...I didn’t think the old, mouldy, janky beyond repair toys would be missed. Oh boy, was I wrong.
- tripzilch 7y agomaybe we do have an instinctual aversion to disposable culture? :)
- iamtheworstdev 7y agoSemi related but there was an article on here or slash about that re-watching thing. Part of it is because they "miss" so much when watching it that it is almost like "watching it again for the first time". I wish my Google fu was working because it was a neat article about young brain development and such.
- mrmonkeyman 7y agoYou are right and we all know it. It's just painful. Let us believe that childhood is magical please.