Lesson in Physics

We bought some more plastic bins and today I hurriedly placed them into the den, planning to organize more toys later. Empty bins turned out to provide a fantastic project for John, who subsequently put every toy he could find in bins, then stacked the bins, occupying himself alone for a good half an hour.

I was upstairs folding laundry when John came running, shrieking with excitement that I had to come see what he had made right now! I came downstairs and applauded his work. I spotted the problem right away, though, and did not say anything, wondering how soon John was going to learn a little lesson in physics.

This photo was taken seconds before the entire stack of bins crashed down on my boy who, thankfully, did not fall backwards off the table and onto the ground.

So then we had our physics lesson and stacked the bins in a more stable way.