Basic Skills, July 2008

Every child needs to grow up and acquire some essential skills for survival. It's never been very clear which skills need to come before others, so we tend to allow our son, Antonio, to develop whichever skills seem to take precedence.



Here he is sitting in front of one of my computers.





Checking out the monitor and typing up a storm on the keyboards.







Here he is reaching over to grab the mouse. Everything within reach of his little hands is fair game.



The other skill he's acquired is feeding himself with proper utensils.







Like all new skills, it takes a while to get things all mastered, but he's working on it.