More Family Stories
- My son insisted on tying his own shoes for the first time, no help allowed, and took a genuinely long time working through it. He finally got there, and hasn't asked for help since.
- My daughter's homemade friendship bracelets business, run entirely out of our garage, has somehow generated more consistent weekend income than most of my own side projects ever have managed to.
- My son's homemade obstacle course through the backyard involved hula hoops, a wobbly plank, and one genuinely dangerous encounter with the garden hose that nobody had accounted for beforehand at all.
- My daughter's roller skating lessons started rough, with a genuinely impressive number of falls in the driveway during week one. By week three she was doing laps and asking for a bigger driveway.
- The kids decided to host their own version of a cooking show in the kitchen. They narrated every step to an audience of exactly one very patient grandmother, who applauded every dish regardless of how it actually turned out.
- A backyard lemonade stand run by three neighborhood kids together turned into a small business negotiation over profit-sharing that lasted noticeably longer than the actual selling part of the afternoon ever did.