Productive
We’ve all been doing pretty well health-wise this winter, but Avery came down with a bug – headache, sore throat, cough – that kept her home from school for a few days last week. (It also got passed along to me, but that’s a different post.) While home, since I needed to work, she spent much of her time playing games on her tablet.
When I put her to bed one of those nights I told her I know she hadn’t been feeling well and needed to relax, but it bothered me that she hadn’t done anything productive that day. And, then:
A: “What’s productive mean again?”
M: “Something meaningful and something good for your brain.”
A: “Well, I did learn a new word today.”
M: “Oh, good. What?”
A: “Productive.”
(Classic Avery)
-M