I had an interesting conversation with a father the other day. His boys are ages 3 and 5, and the dad was telling me how much his sons love to help set the table at mealtime. Both boys are pretty passionate about it, to the point that if an adult carries a plate [...]

Isn’t very high really. There are so many things I can do:

listen to him describe the next gadget he’s going to invent
watch him leap off the ladder into the pool for the umpteenth time
have a good stock of freezer pops at the ready
wrestle him to the ground and give him a good tickling [...]