Sans advice

Sometimes children want to do something, but they don’t want advice about it.

Even good advice.

From someone who’s done it before.

From someone who knows how to do it correctly.

They just want to do it however they’re going to do it.

It’s part independence, part experimentation, part stubbornness.

Right or wrong, win or lose … in that moment, they will not be influenced or deterred.

(And adults occasionally act in this same way.)