sitting here like 
suppressing the urge to help when I see him mess up in a way that he will only realise in 5 steps and then reverse them one by one. Very proud of his tenacity though.
when I was a toddler, allegedly, I got so mad when attempting to sort something (or stack something, haven’t refreshed this story in a bit. I think it was legos) that I pulled up the vent cover and threw them down the vent, so at least your kid isn’t throwing exceptions?
I mean it depends on how tired he is and I imagine that when he starts seeing successes he will get progressively more frustrated at failures. But he definitely has that thing where he will be completely wrapped up in something and his entire existence is outside of space-time until he is able to reach an acceptably succesful state in his game. No amount of noise or coldness or us talking directly at him in front of him seemingly registers. I know it does because of how he acts once he finished his current action but he remains in deep concentration until then. Which seems rather unique to him compared to other kids but I recognize it way too well 😶
i hear they start to exhibit turing completness around 18 months
That actually sorta checks out, he definitely has a concept of branching logic and repeating actions.
Hopefully your toddler’s repeating actions is not one of those UB ones in C++ where the unreachable code gets nixed in clang and it falls through to the next instru…
okay this isn’t a joke this is just me explaining c++
To my toddler the buckets are the enemy. If they wished to be sorted then they shouldn’t have been so easily thrown behind the couch. The stacking rings too.
That’s how it used to be, but he runs around telling everyone which objects are big and which are small so this fits his current special interest really well.
That’s so cute! I imagine it’s a much more profound version of being able to differentiate between flower species. I get the joy of recognition and the satisfaction of knowledge. It is really incredible and beautiful watching kids learn.
I am also constantly amazed how unquestioningly he shares his joy with no regard to who is around. Like: wooow that person next to us is a “man” that is amazing I must tell dad! “Dad! Man! BIG!” … “Beard!! Beard!!” 😅
The world is full of wonder and whimsy and he’s the only one not blinded to it
What’s his towers of hanoi Big O?
O(1) since the tower doesn’t topple when stacked randomly.
