Creative Problem Solving, Tuesday, period 3

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"We're wiped out. We were dealing with children smaller than you all week." Parker was wearing pajamas with flying pigs. Appropriately.

Eliot: was not wearing pajamas. Just some very comfy clothes. ". . . weekend. It just seemed like a week."

"That. Right." So they hadn't remembered they'd had a class to teach until very, very recently.

"So I'm sure some of you have had someone tell you that they hope someday you have a kid just like you so you know what it feels like. And some of you probably found out what that feels like this weekend." Eliot was looking a little haggard around the edges. "So today. . . . Nap. Draw quietly. Play with legos. Do yoga. Whatever you do to relax and recover."

Parker got an obstinate expression. "There's cartoons. I'm watching cartoons." She added, "If you want more of a class, create it and solve the problem yourself."

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Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[vdistinctive]

Well, at least comics probably didn't have any "I have to be the BEST at this" pressure? Maybe?

"That's . . . good." He really wasn't explaining this properly. "D'ya ever just -- relax?"

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[spin_kick_snap]

"I do yoga, I read, I watch terrible sci-fi movies?"

She just did some of those things more rarely than she did others!

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[vdistinctive]

Eliot nodded. "Okay. Just -- remember you're seventeen, okay? You don't haveta be conquerin' the world, just yet."

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy smiled at him. "I don't want to conquer the world. I want to change it."

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[vdistinctive]

Eliot smiled back a little ruefully. "That doesn't change my point."

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[spin_kick_snap]

"Maybe I don't," she conceded. "But who should I trust to do it for me while I'm waiting to grow up?"

Re: Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

[vdistinctive]

"The last generation of Kathys?" Eliot suggested. "The ones that are graduatin' from college now and layin' the groundwork for ya?"