My mom bought a trampoline for the backyard - a small one for the baby and the cousins to use. It was a hit at Easter even though it was really too cold to be outside. Earlier today I could see that the little man was trying to jump. He kept practicing - he'd end up doing a little hop or maybe more of a skip. He would move up to his tippy toes and go back down. He would try again to get some height. He was able to maybe jump an inch off the floor. It was tooooo cute. You really forget, or at least I forget, that everything - every little movement has to be learned including how to jump.
Now that I have time off, I've been trying to take my son to the playground every day or Barnes and Nobles for a change of scenery if it's cold. I noticed that I am a very nervous mother. Every time he's on the the playground, I get really nervous about him climbing all those things. Even the slide gets me nervous if it's a big one. I'm just afraid he will fall. I think it's because he falls when he's just running on flat ground..When he's up on those jungle gyms sometimes they're not age appropriate - there are large gaps and rungs to climb on that he can't really manage as of yet so there I think I have the right to be a little cautious. But other areas, I am sure he would manage fine, but I am running right up behind him to make sure he is ok. Am I coddling him too much? I don't want him to get hurt though. Maybe his whole rolling down the stairs thing really has gotten to me. But he needs to learn to be independent, and I need to learn to maybe let go a little. I know I make it sound like he's 1 going on 21, but all the other kids are running around like crazy banshees and their caretakers are just sitting on the park bench like nothing doing. But he's not as old as the other kids so he does need to be watched still. I will probably have a heart attack when he gets older and starts climbing up to the top of jungle gyms and all those whosiewhatsits.
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