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Things to do with a child while you wait
Waiting is the hardest thing we ask of small children, and we ask it constantly — at the doctor, at the restaurant, in the back of the car. A sheet of paper solves more of it than a phone does.
Why paper beats the phone here
This is not a virtue argument. A screen ends the wait for the child but not for you: the handover back is its own fight, and the child arrives at the table already spent. A game on paper keeps them at the table, keeps you in it with them, and ends without a negotiation.
Every question in this guide
Things to do with a child while you wait at a restaurant
Games that need a pen, a napkin and nothing else.
Car journey games that need no screen
Games that survive an actual long drive.
A packing list a child can actually pack from
Hand it over without losing the toothbrush.
