So check out what Jonah just did.
I was fooling around with Jojo before bed time a few minutes ago.
He was playing with an old photo board he found on a wall with a few pictures of my wife and I when we were still teenagers tucked into the crossing ribbons.
I don’t think those pictures have been changed out in over 15 years.
He was holding it from one end and letting the other end dangle PRETENDING the pictures, or the people in the pictures, were on a swing (saying “swing-swing! swing-swing!”) as he rocked the photo board back and forth. woot woot right! (GO PRETEND PLAY!)
When he had enough of that, he took the photos out and started throwing them all in the air and giggling.
Randomly, as he was playing, he noticed one in particular. It was a photo of me (as a 19 year old). He picked it up, looked at it for a second, and kissed it. No prompting. No mimicking. No rewarding.
He just kissed it.
Then he just put it down and kept right on playing like he had been.
And that, my friends is how to break Daddy.