Go fly a kite, or swing a swing, or merry a go round

There is a kite festival at Frontier Park today.  Cool kites.  I also noticed a family in their backyard trying (without much success) to fly a couple of their own kites.  The kids looked like they were having fun and Mom and Dad were helping as best they could.  When else but as a parent (or grandparent) of a younger child can you get by with playing in the park, swinging on swings, sliding down slides, spinning on a merry-go-round, flying a kite, etc?  And all of that being good, productive time well spent.

When you were quite young we spent much time at the park at the end of our block in Prairie Village playing on the slides, swings, merry-go-rounds, etc.  When you were older and we lived in Shawnee we spent hours at the pool after I got home from work most days in the summer.  We played.  We had fun.  Never be too old or too busy to play with your kids.