Here. Child. Play Quietly With Ball. Ball Very Fun.

Usually on the drive home from work we don’t get that angry listening to NPR. If it’s some political thing, we’ll usually let it just glide over, because we’re beat, it’s late, traffic is bad, blah, blah. But yesterday afternoon there was a story on about the busy schedules of kids and it made us upset and hate the phrase “play date” even more. We really enjoyed the slant the network gave it, the underlying message being “don’t you see that you’re robbing your kids of a fondly remembered childhood?!” but all the middle parts, with a couple of kids being interviewed and going on and on about all their activities really burnt us up.