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Why do children like to listen to stories? Why do children like to listen to the same story?

sihai.com synthesis: many parents respond that children always like to listen to the same story repeatedly when they sleep at night. To be honest, it's acceptable to tell the same story twice, ten times and twenty times in a row. Each time is the same simple plot without suspense. It's really hard for adults with rich reading experience. Of course, what we don't understand is why they like to listen to the same story so much? Don't they want to listen to more fresh and interesting stories?

Today, Xiaobian starts from the law of children's own development, and explains in detail that children always like to listen to the same story repeatedly, whether it's boring or not!

First of all, we need to find out what is the difference between children's reading habits and those of our adults. It's true that, as we can feel, no matter how wonderful a story is, it's enough for us adults to watch or listen to it once. Because our mind is mature enough, we can clearly remember all the wonderful plots after going through them, and maximize the fun or other emotional resonance from these plots.

But children are not the same. Children's experience of the world is very limited, and their ability to receive information is not as fast and effective as our adults. So, although they have heard the same story many times, in fact, each time they will have a new harvest -- the first time, they may just have a good impression on the story, the second time, They began to listen to the story carefully. The third time, they began to pay attention to the details of the story slowly. The fourth time, the fifth time, the sixth time...... It is in such a continuous process of repetition that they will gradually get all the spiritual experience we can get from listening once, which is similar to the meaning of "reading a book a hundred times, and its meaning is self-evident".

Secondly, after understanding the differences between children's reading habits and those of our adults, we must be able to gradually accept the unique 'hobby' of children. However, this is not enough, because we should not only recognize children from attitude, but also support children from behavior. This is about the need to repeat the same story for children!

In fact, to repeat the same story to children is not only to make them better absorb the content of the story. What's more, we need to support children's repeated behaviors, so that they really feel a sense of security and achievement.

Maybe it's hard for you to understand. Can a story also bring a sense of security to children? Yes, when children listen to the same story repeatedly, because they already know the characters, the pictures of the story, and even the ending of the story, they won't be in a tense state as they were when they first heard a story. It is this' known 'feeling that will protect the child's sense of security, so that children will not have so much mental pressure when hearing some tense plots.

In the sense of "known" steadiness, children's ideological activities will become more fluent, and they will secretly recall and think about the next progress of the story. It can be imagined that this sense of self-awareness and achievement will constantly bring spiritual pleasure to children in the process of story repetition, so that children's self-confidence can be constantly improved.

Finally, the editor should emphasize the rationality and importance of repetition for children from the psychological point of view. I don't know if you've heard of it. In psychology, people call children's behavior law that they like to do the same action, listen to the same story, and play the same game "often the same behavior". That is to say, repetition is actually an essential part of children's growth, and every child will experience such a process. Therefore, as parents, they should unconditionally support the behavior of their children.

So, how can we support our children? Does it mean that every time our children ask for a story, they will retell the story as usual? Of course, no, storytelling is also skilful. Only in the process of storytelling, the parents are full of emotion and devotion, and sometimes guide the children to discuss what will happen next, what the protagonist of the story will do, and why We should do that and so on, in order to really mobilize the enthusiasm of children, so that every time children listen to have a different harvest.

In a word, parents should not be tired of telling stories for their children, nor should they worry that their children will delay learning new things if they only listen to the same story. They should always remember that 'repetition' plays an immeasurable role in their children's learning and growth.