My 18mo’s inner teacher is apparently telling him “Jump down in a way that risks a fall.” He does this even when he knows how to get down 100% safely. He *seeks* this specific risk. He injures himself often (never seriously). This does not deter him; he tries again... right away.show more

As you may know I have a high tolerance for non-intervention in these sorts of cases, and child #1 also practiced falling. I let #2 push explore boundaries of as much if not more, but I find myself intervening more with him right now out of necessity.

(And yes he knows how to sit down on a slide, he mastered that months ago and is doing this very much on purpose)

And yeah this is spongy playground flooring not hardtop

50% of you are convinced I’m deliberately giving CTE to an autistic child with undiagnosed depth perception failure to farm twitter likes, and 50% of you are convinced I’m superfathering the next Alex Honnold/Tony Hawk/Steve Jobs The boring truths: * the editing compresses 4 falls across 2 days into 30 seconds; he is not falling 24/7, and is in fact often cautious * this behavior isn’t all that unusual, but it’s often prevented, which makes it harder to notice * I do tend to notice these things and find them interesting * I think independent risk-taking is important, but I do get my judgment of appropriate guardrails wrong sometimes

just one of these tumbles would take out the current President of the United States

That is adorable but your kid should be studied as an example of natural selection not working on humans lol

Generally true of my childhood also

Get him a skateboard asap

as I believe the child psychologists say, he got that dawg in him

Clever kid. On the surface, it looks like he's trying to harm himself, but in reality he is slowly taking years off his mother's life. #BoyMom

lol @Gena_I_Gorlin