Have you found that almost all baby boys like excavators, toy excavators, real excavators, as long as they see it, they can't walk.
Let's start with something interesting.
A 2-year-old cute baby in Hunan, when going out for a walk, accidentally encountered an excavator under construction, he couldn't help but look at it intently, his eyes were straight, and his family couldn't leave.
The next day, I came to see the excavator again, and when I saw the fun, I couldn't help but sit on the ground and watch carefully, like a small overseer.
On the third day, he came again, this time bringing a small bench, really witty! But the excavator did not come, and Meng Wa couldn't help but cry. Shouting "Mom, I want an excavator". Mom said, "Mom can't afford it, can't afford it, can't get a job!" ”
What is the magic of this excavator that makes boys so obsessed?
In fact, it stems from the psychological development needs of children at the corresponding age stage.
Alyssa Wilkins, a child educator and music therapist, said that children have a natural affinity for those big, big, and mobile objects, and these factors can bring babies a rich sensory experience.
The excavator has all three things, to have a sound, to have a head, not only can ordinary movement, excavation arm can also move fancy.
Moreover, in childhood, children's interest in things will show a stronger intensity than in other periods. Usually between the ages of 2 and 4, children will show a crazy liking for a certain type of item.
Psychologically, there is a proper noun to describe this period of the child - the period of strong interest, or EIIs for short. Moreover, EIIs are more commonly presented in boys.
Yale University and the University of Virginia conducted in-depth research on this period of intense interest in children. The researchers collected interviews and questionnaires from 177 parents of children between the ages of 11 months and 6 years.
The results showed that "motor vehicles" ranked first in all the interest categories of EIIs, and the number of children who liked motor vehicles was almost twice as many as the second place! The excavator, which is large and varied, can be called the "top stream" of the motor vehicle industry.
The experimental results also showed that children not only liked motor vehicles, but also showed crazy enthusiasm for objects containing "motor vehicles".
The psychological reasons behind the child's obsession with the excavator
1. The child's desire to create and destroy
Children almost like to play with soil and sand, use building blocks to mess around, and use pens to scribble some things that we can't understand, because children are born with a potential desire to create.
At the same time, pushing down the built blocks and squashing the sand of the fortifications is also something that children especially like to do, so the child has both a desire to create and a desire to destroy.
The excavator just cleverly combines these two abilities, which can not only dig out the soil and pile it up, but also push the mound down and flatten it, which is especially in line with the image of the "perfect tool" in the child's heart.
2. The child's yearning for power and the desire to be controlled are driven
There is a psychology in psychology called "road rage", which is simply that when people drive a car, they will have a desire to possess and control the lane, so there will be behaviors such as lane grabbing and drag racing.
The excavator is larger than the ordinary car in terms of size or strength, and when the child sees this kind of "big guy", the heart may also be attracted by the power of the excavator, and the big shovel of the excavator seems to be able to release the power "at will", and everything around must be avoided and controlled by it.
Children who are driven by the yearning for the power of the excavator and the desire to control everything will pay attention to and love the excavator.
3. Curiosity
Children's curiosity is strong, and when they see an excavator, they will be curious: How does the excavator work? Why is the "arm" of the excavator so flexible?
These questions will attract children to want to find answers from watching the excavator work, and some children will even ask parents to take him to drive an excavator and buy an excavator to satisfy his curiosity.
Do tapping into opportunities have a negative impact on personality?
Some parents may worry that the "destruction" and "power" of children liking excavators will have a negative impact on character development. Should the child be allowed to continue to be exposed?
Don't worry!
Children's love for excavators is partly against the power of the excavator, and partly against the curiosity about the excavator.
When satisfying their children's curiosity and "destructive desire", parents guide their children to think about the inner nature of the excavator, such as how it works, its weaknesses, and what it can help to accomplish...
While satisfying children's curiosity, popularize some other common sense to cultivate children's habit of thinking about the essence through phenomena.
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