I'm Thank you. Always keep your eye out.

One of the great things about kids is that they keep you on your toe. Always keep your eye out.

One of the great things about kids is that they keep you on your toes.

Not just because you have to worry about them all the time, but because they give you so many more things to notice.

As we talked about a long time ago here on Daily Dad, if you have a son that likes helicopters or a daughter that's obsessed with birds,

there's suddenly a reason for you to be a lot more aware as you go through the world.

There's stuff for you to look for, to point to, stuff that you would have ordinarily had a kind

of adult's blindness to. It's important that we don't lose this sense as our kids get older and are slightly less easy to impress.

In fact, it means we need to work harder at it.

We told the story of Robert Lovett and his father who would play a game based on their shared commute, but on different schedules.

Each would try to notice things on the way to work and school went, ask the other if they saw it or not.

We should always keep our eye out as we go through the world, looking for things we can share with our kids.

We can take pictures with these magical devices in our pockets and show them when we get home or text them when they get older.

We can notice things when we're out for a walk or a run and bring the family back later to investigate.

We can notice a historical marker and then pick up a book about it or pull up the Wikipedia page and read it aloud to them.

We can see things on work trips, call them and tell them about

them, ask if they want to come see it with us sometime. We quoted Sandra Day O'Connor a while back.

If you're not curious, she said, you're not smart. Well, we have to demonstrate that kind of

lifelong curiosity to our kids.

We have to be infectious and communicative about it.

We have to calibrate it.

We have to calibrate it to what we know gets them excited and what we want them to learn about.

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