This Genius Babysitter Created a Simple Game That Will Make Every Kid a Feminist
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My friend Emily Stout is an actress in New York who baby-sits on the side. She created a game to play with little Sal, age 9, and it is so great that I have to share it with you. (Also what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t use it to point to your friends when they do something cool?)
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New favorite babysitting game:Every historical woman you can name earns you 10 seconds of Candy Crush. Each round…
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(if you can’t read that post, here’s what it says:)
New favorite babysitting game:
Every historical woman you can name earns you 10 seconds of Candy Crush. Each round lasts one minute.
Round 1 with Sal Liebman, age 9:
Sal: “Ummmm…..okay okay.
1) Harriet Tubman who invented an underground tunnel to free slaves, okay
2) Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean, ummmm
3) Ann something, Ann something, Annie Mary? The first woman on Ellis island!
4) okay okay, umm, her name is Melba I think? Melba and she was the first African American trombone player in a symphony, like a real symphony, uhhhh
5) ugh this is hard, this is hard, can I do someone I know? Okay, my mom, one of the scientists at Columbia who watches yeast in the nighttime and the daytime…. Does that count?”
Me: “Is she a smart woman changing history?”
Sal: “Yeah…?”
Me: “Yeah, it counts.”
Sal: “Okay, one more and I get a full minute. Ahhh!! This is so hard! It’s hard cause I can only think of men right now!”
Me: “….whose problem is that?”
Sal: “Please can I have a whole minute?? Please?!”
Me: “No way if you can’t name me another lady! There are hundreds!”
Sal: “Uh, uh, okay, um, UM, Emily Stout, the best babysitter in the whole world with the silliest laugh and nicest person with so many fun things and games?!?”
Me: “…………………alright, yeah you got it.”
As one of the commenters put it on her post, “you’re doing the lord’s work.” Amen.
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This Genius Babysitter Created a Simple Game That Will Make Every Kid a Feminist
