Kids provide some of the best inspiration for Iterative living. Kids iterate without even trying. As they play, learn, and explore the world around them kids naturally refine ideas, actions and just about everything they do on a minute to minute, day to day, month to month basis.
I am so inspired as I watch my two young children explore and discover through play. The things they create and the pace at which they refine ideas blow my mind.
I wonder why they do this so well? As a general rule it seems that this innate iterative ability decreases with age. I wonder why this is? Could it be that we actually train this ability away or at least we suppress the skill as we “grow up” into adulthood. As we attempt to fill our brains with facts and discipline ourselves to follow directions, plan and execute tasks, are we actually suppressing our ability to discover and live fluidly in the way young children do so naturally?
Some people are better at maintaining this iterative approach into adulthood, but it takes a conscious effort to maintain this inquisitive and creative mode of discovery. I encourage you to observe young children and let them inspire you.
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I firmly believe that our educational system is unfortunately unwittingly moving to suppress this ability sooner and sooner. YOur children, besides being my exceptional grandchildren, do this with such ease at least to some extent because they have been exposed to thinking things through for themselves, given the materials, the TIME and the encouragement. This ability should increase, not decrease with age.
I’ll try to write some more on this later. I’m thinking of the early “writing workshop” movement and the current movement that talks about the value of play in learning. I’ll send you some resources plus, I’d like to share this blog with a few folks who write about this sort of thing.
Thanks Mom, I am looking toward to getting the resources on these topics. Please do share this post with anyone that would have interest and input. As I get into the rhythm of this blog I hope to write about a huge range of topics inspired by self discovery. It won’t always center on childhood development and education, but I imagine this will be a reoccurring theme of future posts. I appreciate you enhancing this blog with your comments.