Delays after delays.
The first delay was a two hour delay before take off. Everyone was a bit upset but Sophia knew more time to play. She drew with me, sang quietly, played with her neighbours and made a tent. She survived without any screen time which was a surprise. Nowadays digital screens are part of our lives. Old school play pretending is still fun and her brother done a great job in playing together.
She showed me that I should be more happy with delays. I was exactly where I should be with any delays with her.
The second delay was on a train where we wanted to go to Dusseldorf. Fortunately for Sophia, yay! 2 hour delay! The lady next to her will play together. Nowadays, most people in this situation will go to their phone and wait begrudgingly for the train to get to the destination but for Suzanne today was not one of those days…
Suzanne had nowhere to go. She just had to play. Sophia rattled through all her games, introduced her zombie baby to her new friend, played Uno on her rules, asked Suzanne the colour of every card, had a Lego tea party with Bluey, made train track with the cards… and then repeat just as Suzanne thought she earned some screen-time. No Suzanne you are stuck with me. Now let’s play together.
I was a little concerned that we effectively looked like doing pretend shots, and I was very concerned when Sophia worked out where she can pretend refill her bottle of pretend drink, so many rounds passed during this delay.
Hopefully Suzanne has recovered by now.
Adventures of Delboy 