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In PHQP-0011 Continuity Matters, Jeff highlights the power of stable caregiving for kids’ wellbeing and learning. Plus, he marvels at a kid’s trash bag STEM play, revisits actor-observer bias pitfalls, explores fostering iterative learning, hunts for a string game collaborator, and more. Episode Video Watch Now: PHQP_0011 Continuity Matters Episode Notes Continuity Of Care Continuity Of Care The Hidden Impact Of Actor-Observer Bias In Early Learning 6 Helpful Ways To Support Self-Directed Learning Through The Iterative Process The Continuity Matters Transcript Welcome to the Playvolution HQ podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson. Thanks for pushing play on with the show. So, trash bag play, trash bag stem play. I teased this at the end of the last episode. Again, this is something I observed recently. A kid, probably 11 years old, he's doing his after-school chores. His job is to go carry the trash out. In his walk from his front door to the trash receptacle, he's got this white hefty trash bag. I don't know if it was a hefty brand. It could have been another brand. He's got this trash bag, and he's doing all this stuff with it. He's lifting it up high with one hand and lifting up it as high as he can with the other hand. And then he's doing this thing with his wrist, moving his wrist back and forth, and the bag will spin one way and then unwind and spin the other way. And then he's doing this full loop, his arm swinging around in a circle and looping the bag up in the air. And I'm just waiting for it to hit the ground and splatter everywhere, but it doesn't. And this is delightful to see because what this dude is doing, and he might not know it specifically, he's doing STEM experimentation. He's practicing with the physics of trash bags and the laws of motion. And that's kind of cool to see because kids are wired for this kind of stuff. It's built into them. And so instead of creating lessons, even for kids of that age, to push these ideas on them, we might be better off creating environments that support their exploration and discovery of these ideas. So there's that, something to think about. The trash bag STEM play observation was a lot of fun. Topic number one, this is our penultimate core value, part 11. I think next week will be the last one, at least for a while. Number 11 is continuity matters. So what we're talking about here is continuity of care. There's some links in the episode notes about this. Familiarity breeds confidence. Young children need a stable set of caregivers, optimally. And I know that's not always possible, but best practices is we want to have kids with the fewest amount of caregivers as possible because children are emotionally dependent on the people taking care of them. And if there's too many of them, they get kind of confused and their behavior expectations between one and another is kind of hard to understand and navigate. And if people are always coming and going in their lives, it can get emotionally confusing. But when we're with a core group of caregivers in our early years, we build confidence in them because we build these deeper relationships. And this is one of the tragedies of high turnover in early learning programs is that it doesn't allow children to build these long-term relationships with their caregivers. Trust fuels learning. And so if you have a caregiver that you have a solid long-term relationship with, you are more likely to learn because it's lower level Maslow stuff. First, we have to feel safe, secure, nurtured, loved. We have to eat. We have to have the right amount of sleep and all of that before we're ready to take a learning risk. And if we don't have a dependence or a comfort level with our caregivers, it's really hard to take that learning risk as a young person or even as an adult. It's easier to learn from somebody you trust. When stress rises, learning drops.