Swing Sets in My Neighbor's Backyard

My son and I are still keeping up with our afternoon walks despite the cold weather, but not when it's really very windy. One time while turning around the curve, he saw the swing sets at our neighbor's backyard and he tried to pull my hand pointing to that direction. He thought that it was a public playground. Remember I mentioned in one of my previous posts here that we seldom see or talk to our neighbors? Well that house where the swing sets were was previously owned by our best friend who moved to another state because her husband's work was relocated there. Ever since this new neighbor moved there some three years ago, I've seen the woman only once. So I wouldn't recognize her even if I bump into her in the grocery or anywhere.

Anyway, my son and I were like playing tug-of-war on the street, he really wanted to play in my neighbor's backyard. Whenever my son is playing difficult like this the trick that works all the time for me is Redirection. I picked up a nice looking dried leaf on the street and showed it to him, and his attention was redirected to the leaves. Then he started picking up leaves and we went home with a wagon of dried leaves, lol.