Awww...I'm glad I could be your first commenter!! And I love when parents take a moment to note the positive side of parenting as well. This post was sweet! It's so important to appreciate those little moments.
Have you made it an explicit policy to expose Sam to as many new sensations and experiences as possible? Between your recommendation to take the child to a hardware store and picking her up to smell flowers, it looks that way. I think it's brilliant. One of the best things you can to for a child of any age (and especially a toddler) is take the to see new things and invite them to think about and (mentally) digest them. I can remember looking at my fathers workshop from an early age with a sense of wonder at all the tools and what could be done with them. I had a similar sense of wonder at the exotic sights and smells of my mother's garden. You've got to let the kid see the world in order for them to learn to love it.
Yes, Man o' Steele, we do try to seek out as many new experiences for Sam as possible. The challenge is matching the right experiences to her age. You definitely have to use some discrimination so that the child can have a grasp of what she is experiencing. What you point out and name can have a big effect too.
Awww...I'm glad I could be your first commenter!! And I love when parents take a moment to note the positive side of parenting as well. This post was sweet! It's so important to appreciate those little moments.
ReplyDeleteHave you made it an explicit policy to expose Sam to as many new sensations and experiences as possible? Between your recommendation to take the child to a hardware store and picking her up to smell flowers, it looks that way. I think it's brilliant. One of the best things you can to for a child of any age (and especially a toddler) is take the to see new things and invite them to think about and (mentally) digest them. I can remember looking at my fathers workshop from an early age with a sense of wonder at all the tools and what could be done with them. I had a similar sense of wonder at the exotic sights and smells of my mother's garden. You've got to let the kid see the world in order for them to learn to love it.
ReplyDeleteYes, Man o' Steele, we do try to seek out as many new experiences for Sam as possible. The challenge is matching the right experiences to her age. You definitely have to use some discrimination so that the child can have a grasp of what she is experiencing. What you point out and name can have a big effect too.
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