The Malady of Summer Holidays

I’ve noticed that there’s a strange and inexplicable condition that happens to kids, especially mine over the summer holidays. They become deaf, louder, motor movements mimic being like marionettes with their strings cut or like mini Boomerang videos. Polar opposites but somehow they seem to be able to switch between them effortlessly enough.

The specific keywords that they don’t seem to comprehend are these:

1. Get up.
2. Slow down.
3. Enough.
4. No more (pool time, t.v., iPad, laptop, playing with water…till infinity)
5. Get out of the pool.
6. It’s late.
7. Come home.
8. Go away.
9. SHUSH.
10. GO. TO. SLEEP!!

Barring that it’s the same ol’ symptoms of childhood+boredom+curiosity all rolled into one delicious little buck-toothed package of silliness!