REPETITIONS IN CHILD REARING
Repetition reinforces.
Repetition reinforces the ability to recall, reinforces recollection in music, in speeches, in commercials, in child rearing , bonds between people, in work assignments, in nature, in mathematical and scientific algorithms, studying of anything.
Review is one word for repetition. Other synonymous words with repetition are reproduction, replication, duplication, even amplification.
Repetition reinforces everything, be it good or bad ; base or noble. All.
We gain by repetition . Each round of repetition is a gain. Thus, as we gain from repetition, each gain is another gain. Hence "again" means repetition. Repetitions leave deep impressions, sometimes indelible.
The body has redundancy, which is another example of repetition. The legs, eyes, ear, arms, hands, feet , testes, ovaries, lungs, chambers of the heart and brain are repeated .
One stick may be easily broken. But other sticks that repeat, that are added to, that reinforces, the first makes breaking more difficult.
Learning to say our scripted parts for Easter Sunday programs at church as children, was , for our family at least, a formative part of childhood. We had better learn to repeat our parts correctly at home, without faltering, first, well before the church recitations, without embarrassing our selves and, as importantly, our parents; or else the stick of correction would be soon swinging low, less than charitably !