Problem solving

Today I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and let S-Boogie outside to play on the nice patio attached to the back of my parents' house. I feel bad that I haven't let her out to play more often this week. The weather and the fact that we live in an apartment keep her from playing outside very often when we're at home. So my mom decided to attach the little Nerf basketball hoop to one of the posts holding up the patio roof since we figured that S-Boogie might enjoy shooting some hoops. Unfortunately, the child has never played basketball before or seen it played by anyone. She didn't understand that the point is to try and throw the ball into the basket. Instead, she wanted to be able to just drop the ball in and was angry that the basket was positioned over her head and made this impossible. I tried demonstrating a throw a few times and encouraged her to try it. She wasn't buying it. Then her eyes lit up and she ran back into the house. She came out with her baby doll, placed in on the ground and tried standing on it. That didn't work, so then she tried her ducky. When he didn't do much good either, she finally dragged out a pillow. Unfortunately, that wasn't the right solution either. After some tears of frustration, I gave up and suggested that we go back inside to watch a video and take a nap. Maybe tomorrow we'll try it again.