Me: "It's not lunch time, it's breakfast."
Kadie: "Mom, last year I went to Aunt Dani's house."
Me: "Sweetheart, we were there yesterday."
Kadie: "Mom, what's today?"
Me: "It's (insert day of the week)."
Kadie: "Does that mean it's splash pad day?"
If you've ever tried to help a young child
understand how many days it is until a certain event or activity, you've
probably been met with confusion and frustration that it's not
happening right now. This is because small children live in the
present and they have a hard time thinking abstractly. Time is a very
abstract and intangible concept, which is why it is difficult to grasp
until they get closer to age 6 or 7 and their brain starts to develop in
a way that they are able to begin to understand things such as time.
