How to Survive a Rainy Day with Children: A Summer Guide

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.