Songs that we sang as kids.

And I feel like we have a responsibility to pass some of that stuff on.

Like we used to make paper airplanes, and we used to make our own fun.

So when I meet with my nieces and nephews, I show them how to make paper airplanes.

We don’t need technology. We don’t need PlayStation or Game Boys.

We can make a paper airplane and just have fun with that.

So my nephew, who’s eight years old, he taught me something.

He created a game with the paper airplane, and that’s—that’s a lot of fun.

You know, we’re all in the house, it’s raining out, we can’t go out, and we’re going to make something with our hands, and we’re going to have some fun.

So after that, we created a clubhouse where we took the kitchen table, and we put a sheet over it, and we climbed under the table.

And I used to do that with my kids when they were young.

Sometimes you have a flashlight, and it just had a feeling of exclusivity—like, this is the clubhouse.

Because when I was a kid, anytime the neighbors got a new refrigerator or washing machine, that big box was our clubhouse for two weeks—until the rain flattened it.

But we would cut a door inside.

And we were tiny little kids at that time.

We would just climb in and out and have fun.

And we had the cookie club, where you couldn’t get in unless you brought some cookies.

So it’s that old-school type of fun where, you know, you make up your own fun.

You have games and things that you do with your hands.

When my kids were six and seven, I took them into the bathroom, and I turned the lights off.

And I had one on the left and one on the right, and you couldn’t see in the dark.

So I could feel them scuttle up to me—they wanted to feel my presence—and I could feel their shoulders.

And after about five minutes, our eyes started to acclimate to the darkness, and then you can see things.

And it was a fun experience because initially a lot of kids are afraid of the dark—they’re afraid of the unseen.

But when you sit in the darkness, you start to see things that you wouldn’t normally see.

So that became a game for us—what do you see?

And some of it was imaginary, and some of it was things that they’ve never noticed before.

But it helped to shape their perspective.