Why is it when you utter the phrase “Give that to me” to someone of the 1-3 year old set, they immediately run away with wild abandon, head thrown back and laughing in defiance as they hold high the forbidden object?
And why is it the more serious you are about the need to remove said item from their sticky little hands, the faster they run?
Darwin, I’m having trouble with your theory of natural selection right now.
Yeah. This whole evolutionary process really should be faster, dontcha think?
I think it’s the thrill of the chase! Or something. 🙂
Let me know when you figure it out. My kids do it all the time too.
My son does the exact same thing. I try to sneak up on him and grab it out of his hands before he has a chance to run!!!!
What if it isn’t about them learning, but about parents learning? How to be faster, quicker, more agile in the grabbing and cajoling?
Exactly – you would think that the parent animal would chase down and finish off the little one, ending that evolutionary track! 😉
And of course it always has to be something life-threatening that they are running with, too!
And WHY do they run when they have poop in their diaper?
WHY?