It had been a while since Rumplestiltskin diagnosed Robin with her fast development condition. Robin was becoming more independent, walking more, and starting to speak a little. Like most toddlers, she was fond of saying "no". The Daily Mirror was interested in hiring Zelena to work with them as a quality assurance manager, but Zelena was having a difficult time accepting that she needed her own life, independent from Robin. She scarcely let Robin out of her sight, which was causing Robin to rebel more. She would throw rattles at Zelena and knock over things at the grocery store. She would try to run in the grocery store but her muscles weren't able to sustain a run. When Zelena would try to discipline Robin, she found herself alternating between being too stern and scaring Robin and being too permissive. Archie, Regina, Snow, Charming, and pretty much everyone else tried to persuade Zelena that Robin would benefit from having someone else babysit her while Zelena finally went to work, but Zelena wasn't trusting anybody enough. She felt that nobody but her understood Robin enough. She couldn't start sending Robin to day care because Robin wasn't ready for group socialization yet.

One day, at the Charming House, Snow, Charming, and Regina were filling Emma and Henry in on the difficult situation while waiting for Zelena and Robin to show up for another playdate.

"She has got to step back and let someone help her!" Regina said in frustration.

"Would you have let other people help you with Henry at that age?" David asked.

"Fair point" Regina conceded.

Zelena arrived. Robin tried to run away from her but stumbled and fell. She was persistent though and got back up again easily enough. She hugged her Aunt Regina. Henry held out his hand in a "give me five" kind of motion for Robin and she slapped it accordingly. Then she sat on the play-mat with Neal. Emma smiled at the sight of it. Robin was so cute and precious.

"Does she have to be here?" Zelena asked, angrily pointing towards Emma.

"Yes" David snapped.

Zelena rolled her eyes. Emma frowned, feeling suddenly a little out of place.

Robin fumbled around the play area until she found an alphabet chart.

"Can you name any of these letters?" Henry asked her.

Robin pointed at the "D" and said "C" then at the "T" and said "V", then at the "R" and said "M".

"Okay" said Henry "I guess we're not quite ready for that".

"But she knew the names of letters?" Snow said with confusion "how can she know the correct names and still get them so mixed up?"

"Let me try something" Henry said, opening up a baby book about animals "What's this, Robin?" he asked, pointing at a sheep.

"Duck" said Robin.

Henry tried seeing if she could identify a pig.

"Cow" said Robin.

Everybody was getting worried. It was apparent that Robin knew the names of categories of things but couldn't categorize them correctly.

Snow searched her mind for her knowledge of education to try and solve this puzzle.

"Kids this age usually know how to sort objects" Snow said "she must have missed something in her development".

"the Raichu effect" Henry said "It's a nickname I gave a concept I learned in psychology class. In the Pokemon anime, Ash's Pikachu is able to beat Lt. Surge's Raichu, a more evolved form of Pikachu, because Raichu evolved too fast and missed out on learning certain skills".

"Yes!" Snow said, now putting things together in her head "it happens sometimes in education. A kid will struggle with some concepts because they moved ahead without learning foundational skills".

Neal started playing with a shape sorter toy, the kind where you have to put the shapes in the correct holes.

"That toy" said Snow "it serves a dual purpose for most babies of developing fine motor skills and also learning to categorize things".

"Robin never played with those very much" Zelena said "I think she has outgrown them".

"By developing physical skills too quickly, she missed learning to categorize things" Emma concluded.

"Well, what can we do about it now!" Zelena asked, rising her arms and her voice in frustration "she's too far along to play with that type of toy!"

"Maybe a special girl needs special toys" Emma answered.

Emma closed her eyes and started concentrating on doing a spell. Everyone else watched expectantly.

Emma magically conjured up a game, the likes of which none of them had seen before. It was a simple sorting activity but looked interesting enough to appeal to an older toddler. It had a pile of shapes, some simple and others more complex, that Robin could slide to a matching area on he opposite side of the board. When she got it right, she would be rewarded with a light and funny sounds. When she got it wrong, it would bounce back so she could try again. It was all in primary colours. Robin took to this game instantly.

"Thank-you, Emma" Zelena said, almost teary-eyed.

"I really do want to help with this" Emma assured her.

"I believe it now" said Zelena "I never should have doubted it".

"Now you" Emma said to Zelena "need to start that job at the newspaper "how about you let me and Regina take Robin some afternoon soon"