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by Consultant32452 2730 days ago
This is not realistic for childhood curiosity. A 4 year old is curious about things like what happens when I bang a pot on the ground. It's unreasonable to expect the 4 year old to read a manual to inform them it makes a loud sound, and also unreasonable to expect them to know the difference ahead of time the difference in scale of danger between banging pots and flipping a switch. In fact, for most areas of curiosity no such manual exists. Experimentation is the primary mechanism of learning.
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It even has a name - heuristic play.

Here are early years examples, but it applies to all children.

http://www.kathybrodie.com/articles/heuristic-play-a-simple-...

https://schoolhouse-daycare.co.uk/blog/heuristic-play/