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My 18mo’s inner teacher is apparently telling him “Jump down in a way that risks a fall.” He does this even when he knows how to get down 100% safely. He *seeks* this specific risk. He injures himself often (never seriously). This does not deter him; he tries again right away. https://t.co/wzWej7dlW6
As you may know I have a high tolerance for non-intervention in these sorts of cases, and child #1 also practiced falling. I let #2 push explore boundaries of as much if not more, but I find myself intervening more with him right now out of necessity. https://t.co/ELCoT57t75
Today's episode of "do I intervene or not?": awkward 2yo descending the endless stairs of Morningside Park by jumping. Result was the best case scenario of harmless fall followed by caution and thoughtfulness. Reasonable worst case scenario was what? Forward fall and stitches? https://t.co/JWO4kumEhR
And yeah this is spongy playground flooring not hardtop https://t.co/urlPRvKZXl
50% of you are convinced I’m deliberately giving CTE to an autistic child with undiagnosed depth perception failure to farm twitter likes, and 50% of you are convinced I’m superfathering the next Alex Honnold/Tony Hawk/Steve Jobs The boring truths: * the editing compresses 4 falls across 2 days into 30 seconds; he is not falling 24/7, and is in fact often cautious * this behavior isn’t all that unusual, but it’s often prevented, which makes it harder to notice * I do tend to notice these things and find them interesting * I think independent risk-taking is important, but I do get my judgment of appropriate guardrails wrong sometimes
@mbateman curious if you've had a chance to check out The Continuum Concept and if so what you made of it! https://t.co/qGSlnzIhNU