She Figured Out the Pattern Before I Finished the Question

2y 5m

Cami was standing on her chair, about a foot off the floor, and announced she was a butterfly. Then she jumped. I told her good job flying, but she wasn’t impressed. She wanted to be a bird and couldn’t figure out why her technique wasn’t working.

I was mid-question when she got distracted by the fan that was sitting on the floor in front of her. She bent down and pushed number one. I told her to leave it alone. She bent down again and pushed number two anyway. Then she told me so.

She kept pushing numbers. I asked her what number it was on before. She thought about it. Two. I asked her to put it back to number two. She did.

Then I asked her what the next number was. Three. Did she want to put it on three? She pushed it before I finished the sentence.

I asked her what it was doing. Spinning faster. I told her the higher the number, the faster it goes. She pointed to number one and asked if that made it go slowly. Yes. She pushed it. Then she pushed two. Then three. Each time telling me what would happen before it did.

She had figured out the pattern. Not because I sat her down and explained it. Because I asked her one question at a time and let her answer.

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