Children have such important lessons to teach, if you listen. When they see that you’re receptive to learning from them, they may teach you something incredibly valuable. All you have to do is ask.
It was raining today. Normally I don’t go out in the rain, but Georgie was very insistent on it. He said it would be okay, and wouldn’t rain too hard. I followed him to the park to play real world Blue’s Clues. He climbed up the slide and said I must put the special batteries in and use my remote to turn the show on. I clicked the button, and bsst, he powered up and put on the best impression of Steve and Blue.
Our first clue was the slide itself, and how it is constructed. The safety railings are important. Keep all body parts tucked safely behind the rails. Slide carefully. I wrote it in my handy dandy notebook, and my boy was pleased.
Our second clue were the swings. He had a lot to say about these. He said there were three ways to use them in order to have some fun. One is swinging in rhythm. It’s the least fun because your paths don’t cross. The second way is to swing in an opposite rhythm. When I am high, you are low. When you are low, I am high. The final way was to get off of the swing, and spin it around as tightly as you can, then hang on from the bottom for dear life as the swing spins you out of the spiral.
I waited around for him to tell me a third clue so I could put it all together, but he didn’t, and it was getting late. So he took his wagon and told me to follow him home. As we approached the magnificent tree, I drew his attention to it, and asked him what he saw in the leaves. He looked up, and said “Sunflowers”.
I put it all together. We just figured out Blue’s Clues, because we’re really smart!
Before we played Blue’s Clues, we had a little picnic at a new green table that showed up. We’ll keep running around tables and using our special remotes to get through this. It’s the only way to keep the spiders at bay.