Recipe: Lemon Crumble Bars

By Stacey Little, Southern Bite

All right parents, I’ve got a question for you. Now think about this one long and hard: Do your kids know how to be bored? Seriously. Don’t answer me yet. Think about it. Do your kids know how to be truly bored?

As we were backing out of the driveway recently, my son, Jack, realized he had left his iPad in the house. We didn’t have time to go back and get it, so there was an instant sigh from the back seat followed by, “What am I going to do with so much spare time?” My sweet boy was flustered. I realized at that minute that my kid has no idea how to be bored.

See, when we were kids, we didn’t have the instant-on variety of entertainment kids have today. There were no iPads to keep us occupied in waiting rooms, cars and restaurants. We didn’t have cartoons on-demand whenever we wanted. We had to wait until Saturday morning to watch them with a bowl of cereal. We didn’t have the luxury of being able to Google some of many of life’s greatest questions; we had to pull out the encyclopedias.

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