More Family Stories
- A backyard bug-catching expedition with the kids turned into an accidental hour-long lesson on identifying insects, using nothing but a phone app and a surprising amount of genuine enthusiasm from all of us.
- My son's first attempt at learning to swim without floaties involved a lot of nervous energy at the pool's edge, followed by an actual leap once he finally worked up the courage.
- My daughter's attempt at teaching herself origami using online diagrams resulted in a full week of increasingly ambitious paper cranes, culminating in one that actually looked genuinely, properly correct at last.
- A backyard treasure hunt planned for the kids' birthday party involved twelve carefully hidden clues. And the birthday kid solved every single one faster than any of the adults could have.
- My son's homemade science experiment testing which household liquids conduct electricity turned the kitchen table into a genuine lab for an afternoon. The results were more interesting than either of us expected.
- My daughter's first solo trip to the library returning her own overdue books turned into a twenty-minute conversation with the librarian about her favorite series. She considered it a total success.