Why do young children watch videotapes over and over again?

Children love to know what's coming next, so many things are new to them and it gives them a sense of security to see/hear things they already know. It'll be like this with anything, they will want the same jokes again and again, and still find them funny. They can sing the same songs with you beacuse they love being able to get it right, they know the words, they understand whats happens, they know what movements to do. In a story they will often point out things to you that you showed them when you first read them the book, like, eg, that's an elephant isn't it? Theyre big aren't they.

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Interesting, it's because they get a deeper level of understanding at each watching. There was some research done on this. It's described in the book "Tipping Point" byMalcomn Galdwell. He talks about how they research kids shows. He points to "Blue's Clues" as a good example. They actually run the same show 5 times! The clues get progressively harder throughout the program and by the end of the 5th show, the kids are solving the tough clues. Very interesting reading.

I used to have near total recall, so I could remember every detail of anything that I watched. Still, if I had some favorite shows I would want to watch them again and again. That's because there is a big difference between remembering it and going through the experience of actually watching it. And you get to comment on the things you like as they happen to whomever you're with at the time.

There are few reasons. The main reason though is that each time the kid watches it they absorb and process more of it, especially if it is a show with many layers.

In his book "The Tipping Point" Malcolm Gladwell traces the creation of Sesame Street and the lessons they learned about a child's willingness to watch the same episode over and over and how this was applied by the creators of shows like "Blue Clues" and "Dora the Explorer".

LOL! I totally know how you feel. When I was a little kid I would sit and watch a movie over and over and over again...like I would watch the chipmunks (lol) like 5 times over and not be bored of it! Now if I watch the same movie twice, I sometimes about die of bordom. I think the reason that younger children do that is because unlike adults, they dont always follow the story line to the movie. For them I guess its more like temporary intertainment to watch the funny animals bounce around on the screen - not follow the whole story. I dont know, but I think that really makes sense as to why!

They do this for the same reason that they make their mum read the same story over and over. It is to slowly drive their mother mad, insane and tipped over the edge. My youngest made me read a horrible book that a friend had given him about harvesting potatoes and vegetables with tractors and things called boom crops. I still have nightmares about that book. Three times a day or more. I can still recite the blasted thing ' and the farmer uses the potato sorter to sort the potatoes' Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Now he is older and totally into racing motorbikes he watches the same motocross videos over and over until even I can tell you were Chad Reed is going to drop the bike or what place he will come in the race. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Study just recently says the average is about 17 times before they get fed up with a tape/dvd. I have to agree, I still know the entire script of the Care Bear Movie and my two girls are in their late teens/early twenties.

Because it is the one thing at that moment that we know we like. I could still watch some of those tapes over and over.

Attention span, and they enjoy watching them over and over, they are fun to watch. My son could basically memorize the videos he watched. I still enjoy watching certain children's videos, they seem to be the best made for the majority of films.

When i was young i would watch Land Before Time over and over i would actually watch it and rewind it and play it again...................to tell you the truth i think when we are young our minds dont have much room so we forget things like we remember our 12 birthday but i think when we are young we have short term memory loss and its like we arte watching the movie for the first time over and over hahahahahahahaha.