Fish domino

"Daddy, I tan't det on dis fiss!  Hep me!"

In accordance with my goal that Rowan one day gets a job and moves out of my house, I refused to help him get on the fish.

"But I tan't do it!"

One father/son Nike pep-talk later, Rowan hefted himself on the fish.  I didn't realize at the time that mastering the fish would set the string of climbing confidence dominoes tumbling into the abyss.  Remember last August when Lyla, age three-and-a-half, climbed this?
  

It's 10 feet off the ground.  I nearly had a heart attack.  Well today her brother, age two-and-a-half...

That's why you don't help your kid get on the fish.