I had an unusual experience this morning. When my 3 year old son got out bed of and we started to head downstairs, he asked me to hold his hand. He is at the age where he normally wants to do everything himself, and usually wants to walk down by himself. However this morning at the top of the steps he asked me to hold his hand. I asked him "Doesn't Daddy's big boy want to hold the railing?" (which is how he normally goes down the stairs). He asked me again to hold his hand, actually slipping his hand into mine as he did, and we started down the steps. The third step from the top he tripped and tumbled straight forward. He has never tripped or slipped on these steps before. If I had not been holding his hand, he would have tumbled all the way to the bottom of the steps.
My questions is: could he have sensed that he was going to trip, even at his young age; and wanted to hold my hand for security, or was it just a coincidence?
2006-08-27
01:40:59
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