11/30/2022
Toddlers take their role as explorers and scientists seriously because that's how they learn about their world and what's in it. Too much of "No, don't touch that" "Leave that alone, you'll break it" "Look with your eyes not your hands" and the children learn. They learn to dampen down their superpower when it comes to learning, their curiosity. Their world becomes a 'No World' instead of a 'Yes World'. We can avoid that by putting the treasures up or away when of little scientist is just getting the hang of this three dimensional world and all of the interesting things in it. It's only for a while, yet it makes the world of difference to how the toddlers come to see themselves as explorers and scientists.