Why do children all over the world like to play hide and seek, and what secrets does it hide?

For children aged 2-7, there is a very strange phenomenon. One game they particularly like to play is hide and seek, and this hobby is not only shared by children in our country, but also by children all over the world. This hobby.

Parents can also recall whether they often played this kind of hide-and-seek game when they were children.

I remember that when I was a child, I often played hide and seek with my friends. Sometimes in a house at night, turn off the lights and hide. Then we used some light outside to hide and seek; sometimes we played hide and seek outdoors. At that time, there were many piles of corn stalks. I hid under the corn stalks and was not afraid of bugs or dirt.

My daughter also likes to play hide and seek since she was a child. She often hides when she hears me or her mother opening the door and lets us look for her.

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Why do children like hide and seek?

There is no doubt that hide-and-seek can bring joy to children. I don’t think any child will cry while playing hide-and-seek.

Why was it so fun to play hide-and-seek when we were children, but now we don’t like playing hide-and-seek, but think it is childish?

Because whether we can be happy has a lot to do with our cognitive ability.

The reason for this result is that according to Piaget's cognitive theory, children in grades 1 and 2 have just understood the "conservation principle", so they will think about it before they understand the point of the joke. For fifth graders and college students, they see the punchline without thinking, and think it's too simple, too childish, and therefore not funny.

Likewise, in the game of hide-and-seek, children’s cognitive levels make it interesting to play hide-and-seek.

Children all over the world are keen on playing hide-and-seek. It must be something that hide-and-seek has brought to the children, so that human instinct makes all children go through this stage.

The biggest feature of hide-and-seek is hiding. In children's perception, they hide and cannot be seen, as if they have disappeared.

A research team led by James Russell at the University of Cambridge conducted an experiment on a group of 3- to 4-year-old children, blindfolded them, and then asked them if they thought researchers could see them. Most of the children's answers were negative. Many children also believe that adults wearing blindfolds cannot be seen.

The conclusion of the experiment is that children believe that if you cover your eyes, others will not be able to see you. In other words, blindfolding achieves the "invisibility" effect.

Let’s take a look at a set of pictures:

The children in the pictures are very cute, and they are playing hide and seek with their heads and tails ignored. They all think that if they cannot see it, others cannot see it either.

This may not be understandable in the eyes of adults, but it seems to them that young children have great flaws in their thinking.

According to Piaget's cognitive theory, children aged 2-6 are in the pre-operational stage. They are self-centered and only think about problems from their own perspective. Their way of thinking is relatively simple. Has great limitations.

Therefore, when a child's eyes are covered, because he is self-centered, he will only look at the problem from his own perspective: I can't see, so others can't see as well as me. Those who cannot put themselves in others' shoes look at problems from multiple angles, and do not realize that they cannot see because their eyes are covered and others do not.

If you still can’t understand it, let me give you another example.

Piaget once designed a classic conservation experiment, which is to prepare two identical cups A and B, then fill them with water, and then pour the water in B into a thin and tall cup. of C cup. Then ask the child, between A and C, which one has more water. Most children aged 2-6 years old will think that there is more water in C because it is taller. They cannot see that C cup is thinner and cannot think about problems from multiple dimensions.

Similarly, when children face the problem of hide-and-seek, their self-centeredness and single-minded thinking make them think that when they hide, they disappear and others cannot see them. Therefore, they are very happy once others cannot find them.

This kind of hide-and-seek game is conducive to children's decentralization. Children will think about how to hide things from other people's perspectives, prompting children to think about problems from more perspectives, thus promoting the improvement of children's cognitive abilities.

Of course, hide-and-seek does more than just that. It can also promote children’s communication with other children, understand the rules of interacting with others, and is conducive to children’s socialization.

Therefore, when children ask their parents to play hide-and-seek with them, parents must satisfy them as much as possible, which is conducive to the growth of the child.