Frozen, Ratatouille, Gru, my favorite villain, Looking for Nemo? Kids like to watch the same movie over and over again without getting tired and sometimes even without blinking. It’s always a good time to put a movie and leave the child in front of the TV. They are hypnotized, ecstatic with pure pleasure and pleasure. Exhausted parents love the moment, but often wonder what’s behind this strange obsession.
Just a few months ago, many people were surprised with a very curious news: a Netflix user had seen the same movies 357 times in a year, most of them longed for an answer to two questions: what movie were they talking about and who was this obsessed person about . Finally, the famous film platform got in touch with the user to meet him and then be able to publicize his story.
- A child may have seen a movie that has a great predilection more than 100 times.
- However.
- No matter how many times you’ve watched it.
- Your level of attention will be the same as the first time.
The film in question was nothing more than Bee Movie, a funny animated film in which a newly graduated bee leaves her hive to form a beautiful friendship with a human florist, whose user who had seen this production almost daily was Jaxson, a newborn baby. one year old.
As her mother explained, the little one was just two months old when he became fascinated with the images of this animated dream work, at this point that since then there has not been a day when he has not been in front of the TV to watch According to her, during the duration of the film Bee, Jaxson is more relaxed and attentive than at any other time , he is aware that his son does not understand anything, but given the satisfaction that the child has had, he has not hesitated to offer this daily moment of pleasure and entertainment as a gift.
The story of this Netflix user and her children may surprise us, perhaps because of the age of the protagonist, we know that today’s children have contact with the audiovisual world from a very young age, moving images, colors, music and voices are very attractive stimuli for the brains of the little ones. However, when children watch the same movie over and over again, there’s more than just a sensory attraction.
We forgot for a moment to look back on our own childhood. We also had our favorite movie, and so did we, how to forget, our new favorite. The one we always wanted to read or expected from our mom or dad every night before we went. We also liked our grandparents to tell us a story or story every time we went to visit them. Are we happy to be close to family, predictable, and family stories?
The child’s brain learns and consolidates information through repetition, so it’s not strange for children to watch the same movie multiple times and ask us to sing the same song over and over again, or to always want the same book or story at bedtime. In this sense, studies such as the one published in 2011 by the University of Sussex in Brighton, UNITED Kingdom, show that children are integrating these stories as a norm, they are chains of meaning that are getting better.
Over time, the child improves his language, discovers new words, better understands the arguments, deciphers more and more details, thus achieving greater personal satisfaction.
Children need habits, rules and routines, so not only are they able to organize the better to discover their world, but they are also able to do so on a stage marked by a sense of security. Surprised when children watch the same movie several times and still experience a lot of pleasure and well-being.
Knowing what will happen next allows them to validate their expectations, strengthen their brain and bring relaxation, there are no unforeseen events that need to be treated immediately, there is no conflicting information to alert the child, to have before them this already known film, this story or this book that has been read or heard so much, what happens is an aid to achieve that pleasant security and the feeling of being under control.
Logical thinking refers to the relationships we establish between two or more objects or situations, makes comparisons, infers information, combines and draws conclusions from separate elements, this important cognitive process that Piaget speaks of in his theory is a key point for children’s intellectuality. Development.
In this way, being able to have a framework, such as a film with a specific story, will allow the child to find those same relationships, helping him to establish relationships of cause and effect, links between factors, between stimuli, news, gestures, words, characters, behaviors, etc.
In conclusion, even if we, as adults, consider these repetitive experiences to be agonizing and even tired, we must know that children need them, when they watch the same film over and over again, they mature, not only benefit, but also grow up.
They feel competent to make predictions, they love to face these family stimuli, which they then enjoy their favorite movies, because the time will come when they will want new experiences, in addition to those they already know so well.