When I’m driving somewhere with David, I try to talk to him the whole time. When we’re at home he won’t let us read books to him or play alongside him. It’s one of the only times I have a captive audience, so I like to make the most of it.
We spend most of the time pointing at things. His favorites are construction vehicles and cranes. I decided to show him a stop light, and since he’s just starting to learn colors, I’d tell him “Red means STOP! Green means GO!”
It took him a while, but now he gets it, and he loves it. Usually at the beginning of the car ride he gets it mixed up; green means stop, red means go. But by the time we get where we’re going, he has it all sorted out. When we stop at a light he announces, “Red means stop!” And then when it turns, he says, “GO! Green means go!”
After we go under the light, he says “More green means go.”
He loves this little game, and starts looking for stop lights as soon as we get into the car.
So now when we go anywhere, I choose our route based on the most traffic lights and the highest possibility of driving through a construction zone.
Parenting really does make you crazy.
Driving around for work, I’m *constantly* saying to myself, “ahhhh! Daniel would LOVE to see !!”
So sweet 🙂 I have said to an adult, “look at the tractor!!”
You need to come visit us….they are building a high rise just around the corner from us and there is a HUGE crane there. Not to mention the added bonus of getting to walk (and stop and stare) by construction sites instead of just drive by them.
He would love that! Cranes are his faaaaaaaavorite…and they’re hard to find!