With my boys at 5 and 6 I am spending quite a bit of time with them these days. The youngest, David, has declared his new favorite superhero is called Naked Flash, and he runs around in the nude all day long while abandoning the sensible pajamas everyone else in the world is wearing. Naked Flash has a secret identity, called James and loves the movie, Cats. Naked Flash has no interest in learning the letters of the alphabet or shapes. Naked Flash seems to immune to most bribes except cookies, which I have explained might not help him be the kind of naked that people think is heroic. Naked Flash is thinking about adding the power of invisibility.
Naked Flash is very much do for a haircut, but Naked Flash’s mom is very worried about my skills with a new set of clippers even though I have watched two YouTube videos on the subject.It has gotten to the point where she accidentally tried to schedule a zoom meeting with me since we were on different floors. Naked Flash was not invited to the meeting, and we have tried to explain to him that really Naked Fash should not show up in any of our zoom meetings. In particular Cathedral now has zoom chapel services, and even though he is as god intended him to be that there is only so much showing that should accompany telling.
Naked Flash’s brother, Edward, has decided to spend the time working on his evil genius skills. His role model is either Lex Luther or Braianc and during our nightly reads is very disapponted that Superman always seems to win. The best I can do is to explain to him that if you want to grow up to be an evil genius you really have to study. Evil underachievers can never build secret volcano hideouts nor are they rays going be deadly but just kind of annoying like when Naked Flash decides to sing Mr. Mistoffelees instead of going to bed.
So my personal Lex Luthor has taken to his kindergarten studies and is actively working on math, mindfulness, and sight words. The school has been fantastic in how it has been able to rally over tough times. Today the last word Edward was given after “tug” was “chug”, which perhaps is hitting the parent community a bit much these days.
I do hope all are managing the closures well and that there is the occasional bit of magic in all of the madness.
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