In Modern Family Phil Dunphy calls his car, “The Cone of Trust,” which allows his children to tell him they don’t want to go to family camp anymore. I find that having no car opens the kids up far more.
Maybe this isn’t a London thing but simply a city living thing that I’m experiencing after being cooped up in the suburbs. Walking your child to school is a treat. Why is a meaningful conversation more likely to happen walking side by side in the morning as opposed to sitting in a car trying to maneuver down River Road? Is it because we are walking and not sitting, is it the lack of headphones, is it because it’s raining and we’re huddled together under an umbrella?
We leave dinner and spend the 20 minute walk home playing a game with the sidewalk squares.
We ride the tube and the kids play games with the maps, the seats, the sleeping passengers’ faces.
We discuss what to do if someone gets separated from the rest of us on public transport. An hour later we lost mommy at Leicester Square.
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