Thinking Outside the Box

You have to love how young children view the world. Adults have names and purposes for most objects in their world. A chair is for sitting on. A book is for reading. A Tupperware container is for leftovers. We find it hard to see the infinite uses that everyday objects have. Tonight our grandson informed us that the floor lamp (to his way of thinking) made a great ball hoop. We sat and watched him throw balls up into the lamp shade.

Finally we lifted him up so that he could drop balls into the the top of the shade. To our much more limited way of thinking, that made more sense.