You can totally play Ring Around the Rosies by yourself. Who needs all that unnecessary hand holding? What if you're not ready to fall down when everyone else is? Best just play it by yourself.
Reading a book from once upon a time to the end is the proper way, but certainly not the most interesting. Instead it's better to read the first page or so, then flip to a page somewhere else and point repeatedly at the pictures asking "What's this?"
Puzzles don't have to be put together the right way. Until a grown up comes in and tells you to put it together right (killjoys).
"You're a doodyhead." Thanks.
Hannah has amazing drawing skills. And I'm pretty sure the under 10's are the only ones who aren't yet sick of my go-to flower drawing, identical to the last forty ones I've drawn before.
Shoes can also go on your hands. I learned this one very recently from my nephew, and I can 100% guarantee that shoes are so much better when you put them on your hands and run around the house. Unless they get stuck. Then you panic and run to Mama.
They love things that are loud and make music. Many a times a little one's been in my room and started banging on the keyboard keys, only to find out you have to plug it in first for it to make noise (thank goodness). Little nephew just learned how to play one key, then go down and play the next, and so forth. So, yay! But once I started clapping all he did was bang the keys and look expectantly for me to clap again.
They can't wrap their head around the whole home schooled thing. Do you have a loudspeaker in your house for school? Do you have a bell at your house to tell you when classes start? How are you ever going to get married if you don't go to school with other boys?
Blue's Clues marathons are totally okay. I've watched Blue's Clues so much with my nephew, and now he's been watching Barney more lately, and I guess my brain has noticed I'm Blue's Clues deprived because I'm starting to dream about it now.
Seriously, Steve is the best main character ever. What's better than a man in green stripes and khakis with a knack for speaking to all his household items as he walks through the house? That's right. Nothing.