Curate, connect, and discover
I hate to say it but sometimes you have to lie to kids. You have to stretch the truth a little to save your own sanity. You have to pull the wool over their eyes just so you can sit down for fifteen seconds.
Yes, the chair is tired from spinning so much, we need to give him a break.
No, we can't go to the park when it's raining because they have to take apart all the park toys to keep them from rusting in the rain.
I'm sorry we can't buy that toy right now, another family reserved it and they're on the way to pick it up.
No you wouldn't like this, it's spicy.