Kid Fun

You can learn a lot from spending the day with a six-year-old:

• Kids get pretty cranky when they haven't eaten for a while (don't let the kid at the table next to yours stare too much at your kid before he or she has a stabilised blood sugar level)
• Kids talk (and laugh) all through the film while at the cinema (at least when seeing Ice Age 2)
• Kids can eat a huge box of popcorn and drink a supersize soda just after having had lunch (okay, I helped but still)
• Not all kids like spaghetti and meat sauce - at least one Swedish girl wanted black pudding (or pancakes - more normal) for dinner on a Saturday
• McDonald's face paint itches a lot and needs to come off five minutes from home, not a minute later
• Six-year-olds can be surprisingly good at sudoku
• Three bedtime stories and two sudokus later the kid is still not tired ("I'm not tired at all") - as soon as she's allowed to sleep on the sofa in the living room, she's out in three seconds
• It's good to have a few household chores to do as an excuse to get out of playing a fifth boardgame in an hour
• Six-year-olds are already familiar with the local slang