How to Survive a Rainy Day with Children: A Summer Guide
By Leigh Newman
Count the Raindrops
Lie in bed with your kids, look up at the ceiling and try to track the plips and plops of a
summer deluge in correct numerical order. This, of course, is impossible. Everyone will
lose count after five drops. Yet, surprisingly, everyone will stay in bed—warm, snuggled
together—as if this were the point of the whole game.
Published 08/03/2011