The world of adults has fragile things of significant monetary or emotional value. It has collections of small related objects that need to stay together. It has complex systems that need to be operated correctly lest they break. The world of a couple who've been together but childless for more than twenty years has a lot of these things tucked into nooks a crannies all over the place.
The world of toddlers has none of these things. Instead it has fascinating percussion instruments and whatsits that can be swung around. It has piles and full containers that are fun to scatter across the floor and abandon in search of the next entertainment. It has buttons and dials and levers that cry out to be fully exercised as they come to attention. And of course it has lots of climbing challenges and various mobile objects that can be used to surmount them.
Which means that the adult world does not have enough secure high-places for all the things that need keeping out of the way of an agile toddler.
I short: we're losing.
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