6. Capture the Funny Things They Do (even if they are not supposed to be doing it).  I love how a playground is so much more than a ladder and slide to kids. It becomes a place of their own, a place where they make the rules. Honestly, I’m okay with giving them a little leeway here. (Pick your battles, right?!). When other kids are around, the rule is that you go down the slide and up the stairs. Yet there is something about that slide that every kid wants to climb up the slide. Sawyer is no exception. Even though I told her that we go down the slide, she vigorously shook her head no and started climbing up the slide (notice she is trying to walk straight up it without holding on). I decided to go with the flow, let it slide – pardon the pun – and capture her defiance.