Darby Saxbe

Kids actually aren't getting the opportunity to watch adults work.

Our jobs are so atomized and hard for kids to grasp because they're happening on screens that kids aren't moving around the adult world very often with this sense of here's what I can imitate and what I can be.

So my argument was that parents should just do boring things with kids because actually it's good for kids to learn how to be patient and

and watch other people.

And maybe that means taking them on social calls or to the gym or to the bank.

I remember going to the hardware store with my parents as a kid, being bored out of my mind.

I was so miserable.

Yes, like having tea with the 90-year-old woman down the street, having to sit there.

That's how you learn how to talk to other people, how to take turns in a conversation.

And so if everything is crafted around the kid.

Right.

Like it's actually better for kids to learn how to go along with a group, how to be an observer, how to integrate yourself.

And I think we sort of do try to create these kids who just the whole universe is revolving around them.

And it's not normal in the grand scope of human history.

And despite being a parent who, as I wrote in that op-ed, thinks that parents should let their kids chill out, I somehow have gotten sucked into the team sports, baseball, club team.

Well, if they love it, they love it.

That's fine.

And it's like my husband's thing.

He loves it.

He plays baseball.