Things You can do with Your Kids when Stuck at Home
So let’s say, hypothetically, that you can’t leave a place, for example. And let’s say, also hypothetically, that your kids are there with you, suddenly out of school, looking at you like, “Where’s my iPad?” And let’s say, hypothetically, because of this thing called social distancing, and them not having actual connection with other in-the-flesh human beings, that you are starting to notice that being plunked in front of a screen is making them weirder than it normally does, by a measurable increment. And so, you are like, “Let’s do something fun,” while thinking to yourself– it would be good if they used their actual bodies. And they look at you like, “Are you for reals?” So you might say, hypothetically, “There was a 16th-century Italian artist named Guiseppe Arcimboldo, who liked to make faces out of other things that were not, in fact, faces.” And while they are looking at you, with their faces kind of squinched up, you take out a dinner plate, and whatever is around, and you make this:
And they’re like, No you didn’t. But you, you are like, Not only did I, but also…
And they go- Is that dinner? And you say- No, that’s the elephant in the room. At which point, they get a bowl down, and
Oh yeah? Well
Impossible. But not even as much as a
Because now it’s
to the
and suddenly it is bedtime.
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