“Daddy, copy my design, but you can only look once”, and just like that, we started #playing with some color cubes.
He showed me a small, colorful design he had made. I glanced, one second or maybe two, then he covered it, and the #game began. I doubted, trying to recall the order, "was the blue above the green, or the other way around? was red even in it?" I placed the blocks down, uncertain -- and got it completely wrong. I lost, obviously.
He proudly said "my turn!” .. So I built a new pattern and gave him just one peek, just like he did or less and he stared, quiet for a moment, focused, while I was distracted him, then turned away and immediately rebuilt it. I was shocked!
“How did you do that?” I asked, genuinely #amazed, and he said, casually. “I remember them in pairs.”
Pairs??
While I had tried to keep each individual block in my mind, one by one, he grouped them simplifying the task and reducing the options. Three pairs instead of six singles.
It wasn’t just clever, it was elegant.
And I sat there, stunned, not by the game itself, but by the reminder: This tiny #human, barely up to my waist, is already discovering smarter ways of thinking. He’s not just learning from me, I’m learning from him, too. Every day, every game, every unexpected moment.
