What are you all up to tonight?
Langston: Making slime! Let’s make some more slime. Can we make more right now?
Mikey: Let’s save the slime for later.
Jackie: (laughing) Yeah, and I don’t feel like a box of slime mix really describes us as a family!
What do you like to do together?
Langston: Play cards!
Mikey: We do play a lot of cards.
Jackie: Langston has been playing cards and checkers since he was 2 years old. He can beat all of us at checkers!
Mikey: He learned how to play dominoes at Thanksgiving, and within a few hours, he was beating the adults.
Jackie: And Josie, you and Dad always draw together. Where’s that project you’ve been working on?
Josie: (showing off a detailed drawing) It’s a map! It shows everything that’s going to happen at my birthday party!
This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.
This article appears in Kids VT, February 2019.
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