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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: why can little kids watch the same video all day long on repeat, without getting bored?
gpt
I feel qualified to answer this as a parent and a teacher. Stories are not so much about the destination as they are about the journey. For young children, new stories contain a lot to assimilate. There may be a great deal of novelty even if they've seen it many times before. They may have learned the meaning of a word, and now some dialogue has a whole new significance that they never understood properly before. They may be in a different mood when they watch it and feel a greater resonance with a less prominent character, giving them a different perspective on events. Even though to an adult the experience of a children's story would seem nearly identical on a repeated viewing, to a child the story appears vastly different each time. They're going on a whole new adventure each time.