"He Would Have Done This for 30 Minutes" | Professor Paul Seedhouse

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]watching who was standing up, and then he got an object. It's It's irrelevant what the object is. It can be a piece of wood or a a toy. And he looked at it, and he looked at me. Looked at me, you know.

[00:00:10]And then he gave it to me.

[00:00:12]And then it seemed like this was the most important thing in the world. So, what's he going to do with it? So, I got it. I said, "Oh, thanks very much." Gave it Gave it back to him. He was absolutely delighted. So, he said, "Oh, let's do it again." So, do the same thing. And it would have gone on for 30 minutes. This was This was really fascinating for him at the time. What's happened uh a couple of days later, um his mother stood a couple of um feet away, and then uh threw the object to him.

[00:00:41]And he looked at it on the ground, and didn't understand. So, then she repeated that a couple of times. He still looked at it. And about the fourth time, he looked at her and goes, "Oh." And so, he picked it up, and then threw it back to her, right?

[00:00:55]Uh so, this this was showing that uh it it's not just uh turn-taking. Um it's It's also you you can uh vary it so it becomes uh more attractive uh to the child, introduce new activities. Uh so, turn-taking isn't just one thing. It can be a whole range of uh of activities.