Again
Tell me that story again! Read the book again! Let’s play it again and again and again! As much as adults find repetition frustrating and boring, children thrive on revisiting favorite books, stories, games, and activities. Often in our haste to provide the next thing, we forget how important it is to stay with something over a period of time, to go an inch wide and a mile deep rather than an inch deep and a mile wide. It frustrates me when I hear a teacher say, “We already did the color blue.” How can you ever know everything there is to know about blue? Trust children to tell you when enough is enough: the whiny tone of “not again” is very different from “hooray!” It is our job to find the new in the old, the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the possibilities in revisiting favorites again and again and again.
In loving memory of Gryphon House author Leanne Grace, MEd, we are sharing pieces of her inspirational writing every Wednesday.
Leanne was the director of professional development at Hildebrandt Learning Centers and a lifelong advocate for early childhood education. She inspired the early childhood community to prepare children as lifelong learners with her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. One person can make a difference, and Leanne did just that. She will be sorely missed.
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