Riding his Radio

“People without a vision perish”
-Bible-


“but why?”
-Judah-

Judah has entered the ‘but why’ phase. This can be very annoying but most of the time it is fun to see what he is wondering. We went biking and he wouldn’t steer his wheel. As a result he crashed into the planter, Kate’s car, and fell (as seen above). When i told him to steer his natural response was... you guessed it. But why? As I explained to him that his steering wheel points in the direction that the bike will go and that by changing that you decide where you will go. followed by one of his, “but why?” I go on and tell him that the bicycle follows the first wheel. He asks “but why?” As you can see i try to give him one chance to understand what I tell him. I try to explain it to the best of my capabilities. Yet sometimes I simply answer with “because I said so”, followed by “because I am your dad” and then by “and that makes me the boss”. You see sometimes playing the ‘chain of command’ card works but most of the time is is followed by a “but why”. He always seems to have the last word. In this case (the bicycle case) I gave up and told him to just try it. And thats how I ended up with this picture of him picking up his bike one more time. And believe it or not but he got it. He rode down the block after this very picture. And then he told me to come get him because he was tired. And because I was so proud of my little cyclist I went and carried him and the trike home =)