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Being a conscientious (neurotic?) Mommy, I have tried to remain aware of the activities I “should” be doing with The Tot at the different developmental stages.  I have tried for a couple of months now to demonstrate to The Tater Tot how to stack things but every time I get more than two objects on top of each other, she grabs the middle one and yanks it out!  It’s kinda funny.  I think it’s our game now: Mommy scrambles to get things stacked before Destructo Girl comes along and bashes them all to pieces.  She does it with her Baby Einstein Blocks , little Shape Sorter Shapes (Mommy has made some very interesting structures with these!), the little ring stacker thingy, and just about anything else I try to arrange for her.  The latest thing being the laundry.  I was folding and stacking the laundry while she was cruising around the living room furniture and WHAMO!  Stack on the ground.  Giggle, giggle.  Then I thought I’d be clever and arrange the empty water bottles like bowling pins and teach her how to roll the ball.  Yep.  You guessed it—I had no sooner gotten the first two rows arranged than she speed-crawled to where I was and bashed them down!  So we spent the next ten minutes with The Mommy rushing to get the “pins” up and roll the ball before Destructo Girl bashed the heck outta them.  It was fun!  As long as I don’t become intent on actually completing the learning objective that I set out to, we’re just fine!  And she has fun, which is the most important thing to me.  She’ll learn everything just fine if she’s a happy and well-adjusted child.  She’ll just do it in her own time.  She’s an independent little one…