Whatever he’s doing right now, that’s the most important thing. So I encourage him to keep doing it as long as possible. I never say, “Come on! Let’s go!”
We’ll go to the beach or forest, and make things with sticks and sand for half a day before he’s ready to switch.
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I’m very ambitious and try to do a lot with my life. But when I’m with him, I stop everything else. Phone off. Computer off.
I try to see things through his eyes — to put myself into his mind. When he gets upset, I try to remember what it was like to be his age and relate at that level.
When he makes up stories, I enter his inven... See more