Monday, October 15, 2007

Kids are Too Smart

After the kids had changed channels one too many times mid-program, we had a *brilliant* brainstorm. We pulled out old remotes that were still around, and gave them to the kids to play with. What geniuses! Now the kids would have their own remotes with which they could fiddle harmlessly all they liked.

To save you some time, note that remote controls which don't control anything are not interesting to kids beyond the first day (if they even last that long). And we're not the only ones to discover this...AC's cousins tried to fake their kid out the same way, with the same results.

Fake phones are OK--kids can imitate one side of a telephone conversation all day long. Alana often plays "office", imitating Daddy's business calls...which I have to say sound pretty inane when I get to listen to them as opposed to participating in them!

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