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What is Renovation Psychology
Who is Dr Debi Warner? |
Introduction:Why castles at the beach? The beach provides an ideal environment for personal expression. The child at the beach may play with the elements in any fashion, without inhibition. Other than making sure to honor other people's space and safety, the child is free to play for long periods of time, to explore, to experiment, to discover and to invent.
In this relaxed and generous situation, the children may pursue many spurts of action. Exploring movements and materials until they sense they are pursuing a satisfying mission in the sand. A child may spend minutes exploring a construction
technique for a particular section of their wall. They place the sand, pat
it, it crumbles. Again, it crumbles. They look, they feel.
They try again and again.
The minutes and hours pass; they pour their creativity into the hole they dig. They receive back satisfaction. They continue on with action-motions that are rewarding to their eyes, hands, senses, drives, and evolving goals. They become lost in time as they enter into a harmony with their sand project. It may be difficult to get their attention if you are not one of the elements they are handling ~ sand, water, tools, or playmates. They are oblivious to parents' calls, neighboring play, and the tide water advancing until it touches their feet, or their castle. By the time they are done with their play, their castle reflects their most sustained efforts and interests, as well as by absence, the avoidance of those techniques they could not master. They play until they are satisfied. At that point, they usually go and find someone to admire their project. Then the tide comes and they must handle adversityHow does the child deal with the onslaught of nature's force? At young ages, tears are likely (and at older ages too). Yet the desire to survive, for one's creative project to endure, will emerge and fuel some kind of saving action. How much scrambling will take place? Will additional structures be tried? Will cooperation be sought to make hasty tidal walls with many hands to help? How much drive will the child use to combat the threat to their castle? What does this say about their vision, drive, and ability to muster cooperation for a goal? . |
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There is no waste of time, since time is ample;
there is no waste of sand - it is ample too. They make mistakes many times
over until they stumble onto a new method - perhaps using a twig as a tool, or
wetter sand, or another child suggests a new way. Or perhaps they abandon
that aspect and go in another direction, digging instead, or building a moat.
