Help/Advice needed regarding children

[Dave Ambrose]

You have to accept little kids on their own terms. Early on, they're busy building motor skills. At that age, they actually understand quite a bit, but they have no way to communicate with you verbally. They're not completely wired yet. They'd like to come to you, but they can't yet. They will remember you, so being engaged with them is a good thing; even if it's making funny faces at them.

He's trying to learn how to interact with you. At this point, he'll give you things, then come and take them again. He's actually learning an important concept, conservation, that we take for granted. Reading a book on child development might help put this all in context for you. It did for me, though many years too late for my niece and nephew. (but, they loved me anyway)

The important thing is that you just care about him. He'll figure out that you're real quickly enough. They're very good at that.