Daddy's Big Girl

[billroper]

samwinolj was good enough to take daisy_knotwise to her colonoscopy yesterday, so I took Katie and Julie over to the McDonald's PlayPlace for lunch so they could run around for a while until it was time to pick Gretchen up. At one point during the process, I lost track of Katie for a bit.

It turns out that a younger child had managed to consign his precious pacifier to an inaccessible part of the climbing structure that can only be gotten into by an employee with a key. And Katie, who had seen something of ours retrieved from that space once, went off, found an employee, explained the situation, and got them to come back with a key and retrieve the pacifier.

I'm suitably impressed, not just that she knew how to do it, but that she did it to help out a younger child and his mother.

Comments

[mdlbear]

That's very cool. Kids can be amazing.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I commend her, & both of you. She learned that behavior from somewhere after all.

[lindaneely.livejournal.com]

What a great story. Good for Katie! She's a problem solver - one of the very best things to be.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is cool!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Very impressive!

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

So, what did you do by way of reinforcing the helpful behavior?

[billroper]

Praise. :) I told her that was very good of her.