“You show them a puzzle. They say, ‘I can't.’”

“You ask them to finish something. Two minutes later, they're onto something else.”

“They know the answer when they've seen it before—but hits their head with the toy when the problem looks different out of frustration.”

“They ask, ‘Mom, what do I do?’ before they've tried.”

“They make one mistake and want to stop.”

One day you won't be sitting beside them. One day the question will be harder than anything they've seen before.

The goal isn't to give your child every answer. It's to raise a child who knows what to do when they don't have one.