I trust that I am not the only parent who taps into the earnest desire of her little ones to "help" when, perhaps, it would be especially helpful.
Say, when the front yard is a soggy bog and there is a surprise nip in the air and you would prefer to stay in the warm house and keep your slippers dry? Right? Right.
I'm pretty sure that they love it when they indeed help. Because fyi, Will's attempt to help me stir some cookie dough that consequently ended up on three walls of the kitchen was not all that helpful. I'm hoping I did not show it.
Sandra
p.s. Yes, if you recall, we do this in winter too. Because if you double recall, I get cold extremely easily.
p.p.s. Have you noticed that most of my recent pictures of Will show him sporting his beanie from last year? He truly loves his hat and always has it on if it's even slightly chilly. He even sleeps in it. At first we tried to discourage him because he gets all sweaty. But he insists. And we decided that this was not a battle to choose. So we let him fall asleep in it and take it off later, laying it next to his bed. He usually puts it on first thing in the morning. I often use the phrase "love it to pieces" or "love it to bits"...and he may do exactly that with his hat. You can imagine how much that warms my knitterly heart.