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September 2011 Moms
SusieBW
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Longer attention span?
SusieBW
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I noticed this weekend that it seems like lately DD has a longer attention span for playing with individual toys. Before, she would play with everything all at once, and hop from one thing to the next constantly, but I noticed this weekend that it seems like she'll pick one thing and play with it for quite a while before moving on. She also seems to create games for herself more now than she used to - like, move all the animals from the puzzle on the play table to the kitchen chair, one at a time, then move them all to step stool, then back. She did that by herself with no suggesting from anyone else, and it held her attention until all of the animals had been moved a couple of times. I feel like, a month ago, one or two animals might have gotten moved before she lost interest and moved on to something else.
Has anyone else noticed this?
I was thinking maybe it's because her motor skills have improved, so she can manipulate all the parts of stuff better and make them do what she wants them to more easily, so now it's more fun for her. I also feel like she has a longer memory than she used to. But maybe I'm making all of that up and reading more into this than I should. WDYT?
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Re: Longer attention span?
We do this too. I ask her if she wants to color & she'll get the crayons out & dump them on the floor. I color in the lines & she colors all over the place & stops from time to time to taste the Rainbow. LOL!
As for making up her own games, it's funny you mentioned that. Yesterday, C was taking all of her animal magnets off the fridge one by one, bringing them to the coffee table and laying them out in a line, and then once she brought them all over, she took them back to the fridge one at a time. She did that 3 or 4 times.
We've started with crayons too.
He definitely has a longer attention span. He is also starting to have quite the imagination. He will crawl around and woof like he's a dog. When I ask if he's a dog he just woofs and laughs. It only lasts a couple minutes.
Me too, I love it!
The only time we color is when DD is in her high chair waiting for breakfast or dinner. She seems really against coloring on the page, and would rather color on anything else, so I'm not ready to trust her with crayons on the floor just yet. They're still very much a supervised activity, even with the washable crayons I got her for Christmas.