It's the second Saturday of the holidays and it's raining again. She asked for a craft kit, you bought the craft kit, and now you're the one on the floor threading elastic through a hole the size of a pinhead while she's quietly drifted back to the tablet. There are beads in the rug already. By Tuesday the box is on top of the wardrobe with four bracelets' worth of tangled thread inside it, and you've privately decided not to buy another one.
Without it, you may notice:
❌ Elastic she can't thread and knots she can't tie — so every bracelet becomes your project, not hers
❌ Bracelets that slip off at school by Wednesday, because a child's knot in stretch cord never holds
❌ Loose beads in the rug, down the sofa and in the hoover for the next three months
❌ A craft kit used once, then living permanently on top of the wardrobe
❌ The tablet winning again by 4pm, and the low-level guilt that comes with it
❌ Watching her friends swap bracelets at school that she can't make herself