Parenting is a lot of fun and a lot of work. And while most of the work is routine, the truly difficult times are when a parent has to be creative to solve this or that problem. Teaching the kid a new trick or explaining a new concept – these are the tough ones, not all the cooking, feeding, and cleaning.
Olga and I have come to one of those parenting deadends, when we really don’t know what to do. With Maxim’s new transportation skills like crawling and walking, he is getting very mobile. He can reach places he never could and he can find things he never should. Some of this things can be moved higher and further. Others can’t.
So, the time came to teach him places that he can’t go and things he can’t touch. Not even that yet. I am going to far. Limitations. That is what we need to teach him. The idea is that either father or mother may not approve doing certain things and he should understand that he should do them.
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