How have you told your children about clock, week days or seasons?
What I have realized is that people see abstract concepts very differently. This affects how time related concepts are visualized for a baby. Consider following concepts and how you would visualize them?
- Year: For me a year is a round circle going anti clockwise, starting from New year on top, summer in the bottom and ending to Christmas in one o'clock.
- Week and month: For me a week is a straight line starting from Monday (as it is marked according to ISO standard and German notation) and month is 4-5 weeks on top of each others as in calendar.
- Day: For me day is like a clock
Here are some other concepts which people tend to visualize differently in their minds:
- Life: For me life is an arc which is starting from the left, ending to the right, rapidly raising before age of five to half way, peaking at the age of 40 and rapidly dropping at 75-80.
- Phone number / pin codes: I see phone numbers as series of three or four or as visual forms like a pyramids or squares
In an ideal world, I would love to have a board with following information included: a clock, a weekday, a date, a year showing all months and seasons in pictures to teach these concept to our baby.
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