Well so far, Caleb doesn't have a Panda scooter, trike or anything bamboo to ride. Guess he'll just have to ride with his dad on his bamboo bicycle until daddy can get him his very own Panda bamboo.
Caleb is a toddler, yet he is well on his way to learning discipline of mind and body. As wonderful as he is right now, we would not want him to remain a 'baby' forever. However, it is very easy to give in to these cute little ones and continue to 'baby' them until they become totally unable to care for themselves. We do them a disservice by protecting them at every turn from the lessons in life that are meant to strengthen them. They never grow up, but end up dependent adults, not capable of holding a job or caring for a family.
John Adams once said it well in his Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law in 1756, " It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
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