What is control?

Control is when you make something happen by giving it instructions, just like telling your toy car what to do.

Imagine you have a toy car. You push it, and it moves. That’s control, you’re the one who decides where it goes and how fast it goes. Now imagine the car has buttons on it. Pressing a button makes it go faster or turn left. That's like having more control, because now you can choose different actions with just a press.

Control is like being the boss of something. When you're playing with blocks, and you tell your friend to stack them in a tower, that’s control too. You’re telling someone else what to do, and they follow your instructions.

If you want your toy car to go around the room, you might press one button for forward, another for turn, and maybe even a button for stop. Each time you press a button, you're giving it a command, that's how control works in real life too!