Ditto. I find it really hard to understand how people get lost - it’s like “well, how did you get here?”.
As a small child I would take myself off on excursions, often through deep snow in woods with bears and wolves, or in a post-industrial waste filled with lord knows what hazards - but getting lost was never even something which occurred to me, even as I’d set off off trail, as I would just know that home is that way. I apparently wandered off by myself in Hong Kong aged 2, miles from home, only to then successfully get the right tram back with a backpack full of booty I’d collected on my adventure.
My poor parents I think became numb to it after a while - although the time in the alps had helicopters and all sorts when I nonchalantly turned up back at my grandmother’s a few hours later.
My kiddo seems to be the same. She’s all of 14 months old and can navigate her way through forest from A to B, and isn’t shy about taking a short cut rather than following the path.
My wife is having kittens. For me, it’s “yes this is what children do as I recall”.
I honestly can’t say if it’s nature or nurture - I can’t recall ever learning to navigate, and she seems to just have an excellent sense of what is where from the get go - she’ll set off in a seemingly random direction, I’ll follow her, and we’ll end up at her favourite pond, or by the mint beds, or at the truck, within which she’ll then be like “ok now you drive and I’ll scream if you turn the wrong way, we’d better be going to see auntie Maria”.
As a small child I would take myself off on excursions, often through deep snow in woods with bears and wolves, or in a post-industrial waste filled with lord knows what hazards - but getting lost was never even something which occurred to me, even as I’d set off off trail, as I would just know that home is that way. I apparently wandered off by myself in Hong Kong aged 2, miles from home, only to then successfully get the right tram back with a backpack full of booty I’d collected on my adventure.
My poor parents I think became numb to it after a while - although the time in the alps had helicopters and all sorts when I nonchalantly turned up back at my grandmother’s a few hours later.
My kiddo seems to be the same. She’s all of 14 months old and can navigate her way through forest from A to B, and isn’t shy about taking a short cut rather than following the path.
My wife is having kittens. For me, it’s “yes this is what children do as I recall”.
I honestly can’t say if it’s nature or nurture - I can’t recall ever learning to navigate, and she seems to just have an excellent sense of what is where from the get go - she’ll set off in a seemingly random direction, I’ll follow her, and we’ll end up at her favourite pond, or by the mint beds, or at the truck, within which she’ll then be like “ok now you drive and I’ll scream if you turn the wrong way, we’d better be going to see auntie Maria”.