I can occasionally get him to sit down and look at a book, even to “tell” (just babbles) the story himself. But mostly, he goes from one toy to the next, wanting to have many things to do at once even when I try to limit.

I need more activity ideas for helping him get his wiggles out! Luckily, he sleeps well at night.

I’ve read that boys “academically” (for lack of a better word) develop slower… initially worse at concentration, worse at speech development, etc. My limited observation agrees with that viewpoint.

While my daughter had a walking toy, shopping cart, etc. to race around the house, a lot of her toys are focused on sit-down activities. We were big on puzzles, and the ability to play an actual “game” with rules and turns was high on my list of things to get excited about.

It’s one of the best!

I bring this up only because they have a board game called Three Bears Hike, which also has a couple of playing levels. The 3 Bears have gone out on a hike, and need to get home. You roll the die and move any combination of your 3 figures up to what you rolled, or in the more competitive version you can move them back. I bought this for my niece back when I worked at a teacher supply store, and she loved it. Now that my boys are 3, I need to get them a copy. It also makes a nice tie in to “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”