Children with a positioning scheme love to line up toys or place objects in specific ways. They may place a single dinosaur on each corner of the table, a toy car on the left-hand side of each step they climb, or they may spend time repositioning objects.
During mealtimes, they may be specific about where they want their food to be placed on a plate – and they may have certain traits, such as getting dressed in a certain order.
It is important that early years educators are receptive to this stage of development and seed the environment to maximise learning potential.
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