Give Him Just Enough Rope to LEARN Himself

Feb 24, 2012

We saw how much fun the kids were having at Let the Children Play so, ofcourse, we had to try it out! Rope bridges are excellent for gross-motor, imaginative, and dramatic play. Oh no! There’s a pit of angry alligators waiting for you to fall off… hang on, man, HANG ON!!

Daddy tied two 75ft ropes from the deck to the fence post. The only difficult part was keeping The Chief off the ropes while trying to tie them. He couldn’t WAIT to get on!

The Chief plays with ropes all the time but it never occurred to me that a 3yr old would be capable of doing this. I’d never done this until I joined the military! It took a minute for him to figure it out.

Daddy put his foot on the rope a few times to help him figure out how to get on.

Balance with hand-eye-foot coordination! He quickly realized he had to be steady and slow at first to figure it out.

Now he can walk all the way across like a pro! Which is good because we wouldn’t want him to fall into that big pit of mean, hungry, kid-eating alligators!