Mummy Milli

I love how literal children can be, when they see an action differently to you. 

It can be so easy to forget that children see the world so differently from ourselves, that’s why I really love these little reminders, and try to take note when they pop up.

We have a box for recycling outside and to the left of our back door, so I often open the door and from there throw whatever I have into the recycling. 

Monkey doesn’t quite see all of that though and I didn’t realise what his view would be until he saw something that needed recycling. 

He picked it up off the counter, told Dad that it needed to be recycled and that Dad had to open the door. Hubby opened the door and Monkey promptly threw it outside, just straight out the door and onto the floor. 

To him it didn’t matter where it went, he just knew the recycling went outside. 

He wanted to help and did exactly what he had seen me and his Dad do time and time again, without thinking to explain anything too him. It was a good reminder of how important it can be to talk things through and to explain, even just once, why and how we do what we do. 

This was one of the most recent that made me laugh out loud when I figured out his though process, but there have been many. What has your little one done, certain it was exactly what you do and that they were helping?