The Kindness of Strangers

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.