Have you ever noticed how different ideas stand out during different seasons of life?

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Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Young children spend the first five or six years of their lives busily making sense out of life around them.

Their brains are on overdrive, observing, categorizing, comparing, discriminating, problem

solving, experimenting, testing.

For example, let's say you hand your child a spherical object and tell him this is a ball.

Over the next few weeks, you show him other spheres, white and black ones, small ones, large

ones, rubber ones, plastic ones, and they are all balls.

So your child starts to form some brain connections about balls.

They are sphere shapes.

Then your child encounters a round Christmas tree ornament.

It's a spear shape too.

Is this a ball?

No. Why not? What's different about it?

His brain is hard at work.

He's trying to figure out what might be the difference between those two spheres.

So he connects the ornament to spheres in his mind, but not to balls.

And he tucks that idea away to explore further and clarify more as opportunity arises.

Later, he sees a football. Now he has more categorizing, comparing, discriminating,

testing, and assimilating to do, and new ideas to explore. This thing's called a ball, but it's a different shape. Does

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