What does a Two Year Old Understand?

Rachel’s an inquisitive little girl who loves slides and swings. Every time we go to the playground she want to go on one or the other and we usually let her. A few months ago when we went to one of the neighbourhood parks I had to disappoint her. See sometime overnight the playground was vandalized and the paint used hadn’t dried yet. That night my husband and I decided to get her a play set she could use in our backyard. For several weeks we looked at and tried out different systems. That’s right Rachel did the hands on testing. After our last vacation we picked up the chosen set. Even before my husband opened the box Rachel was telling us there was a slide inside and there wasn’t a picture of the set on the box. Of course once opened she’d regularly look at the slide and show others the swing seats. It took my husband about a week to get the play set assembled and each morning Rachel would ask “slide ready?” We’d tell her not yet so she’d hang her head and say okay. The morning after it was completed I had a hard time getting Rachel to come in the house for anything. As my husband was getting ready for work the next day Rachel asked him if he was finished his breakfast and if they could go outside to slide. All in all it has been a fun process resulting in a very happy little girl who I think know exactly what her parents were buying right from the time she started testing play sets.