I was playing the game Memory with the boys (any formal game with a two-year-old is always risky). It started off well and we got through one or two rounds of actually playing.
Then Matthew started to turn over more than two cards per turn. I corrected him and told him that's not how you play.
Then he did again the next turn and they both howled hysterically.
"Matthew!" I warned, "If you do that it's not fun for anybody."
But then I realized that they were both giddy with laughter every time. It was fun. It was fun for everybody. Except me because I was worried his behavior was going to ruin the fun.
Grown-up of me. I know.
It's important eventually that kids learn to play games according to rules because otherwise, it does end up not being fun. But today was not that day and maybe two is not that age.
A good lesson for me to learn as a parent that sometimes kids don't need parents to teach them what is fun.
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