> I know my job as a parent is to guide while keeping them safe at the same time letting exploration happen, but man sometimes it's just so hard. For example, l

> I know my job as a parent is to guide while keeping them safe at the same time letting exploration happen, but man sometimes it's just so hard. For example, letting my child explore while walking home can make a 5 minute walk take 10, 15 minutes longer. As we were putting our 2-year-old to sleep last night, my wife was commenting, "Remember how last year, when we read him a book, it would take all of 3 minutes and then we'd be done?" It now takes about 2-3 minutes per page, and can be 20-30 minutes to get through a 12-page book. In the meantime, for every object on the page he's like "What's this?" "What's it doing?" "No snake?" "It a green one!" "They put the duck in the cart!" "Where going?" Also amazing how early the desire to make up stories and explain why things are the way they are appears. The drive to make sense of the world appears to be innately human, and comes out at a young age.