The good thing about being a parent is that if you blow it the first time, you almost always get another chance. In this particular case the same basic scenario recurred several hundred times, so I had ample opportunity to practice. Here I am in a finer moment: Dan guarding blocks, baby approaching . . . Dan: No! No! No! Me (acknowledging and identifying his feelings): Oh no, here you are working on something special and the giant baby is coming to grab it. How frustrating! Dan: Here, here, here! (He swiftly tosses a handful of blocks to the floor to distract the baby and moves his creation to
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