Isn’t that face adorable? Don’t I want to pinch those cheeks and clean up that ice cream?
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Augh, I know grades aren’t due to be posted until Friday, but why can’t my profs get ahead of the game and post 'em early?
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How many students are in your class? How long was the final exam?
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As the spouse of a professor, should I tell you it’s probably because your classmates are struggling to turn in late work? Or that the 150 papers delivered in one week should be looked at individually? And some require more, ah, red ink than others?
Did you consider asking them individually in a personal manner and possibly bringing along some nice chocolates when you do so? Especially if they’re adjuncts, a nice wine would go a long way, don’tchathink?
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Can I add that grading papers, especially final papers, is the single most mind-numbing and depressing activity in which I regularly engage?
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And wouldn’t your life made better by chocolates or a glass of wine?
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Those are good for cholesterol, right?
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At a minimum they promote mental health, don’t they?
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Is this going to tun into a quality vs quantity discussion?
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Would that promote mental health?
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Can’t we have both?
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And even if they don’t, don’t they make life worth living in the first place?
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How on earth do you make/plan a ‘scouting expedition’ in the park, for the birthday party of a six year old, with 5 year and 6 year old in the group? Isn’t 12 not a big group?
Am I not (history far back) used to give lessons to groups of 30 of the age of 12 to 15? Isn’t it strange that I’m more nervous about a group of 12 5/6 year olds, most boy’s?
Am I just hanging about the question: What kind of funny, interesting, questions you can give them during that expedition?
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Wait, are you scouting out the location of the party? Or is it leading a portion of the party as an event?
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Isn’t the latter? And I’m not talking about the party of the young one? Am I not a lucky one to have a park between the school and home? Tho whole not easy walkable for that age without motivation, but in between it is? Isn’t that set (except the weather)?
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See if anybody knows what “scat” is? Ask them to look for different kinds of “scat”? Do they know where bears poop? If a bear farts in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it still smell like dead fish?
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Have you considered a scavenger hunt, especially of things that cannot be moved, like sculptures? Give them goals, like finding a statue of a horse on three hooves and that sort of thing?
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Isn’t there in the park an hidden wooden bear? Aren’t that great questions?
Did I just not thought about this game? And just grabbed a quick Google search to illustrate?
Probably a great thing to do around this age? 
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Oh, and speaking of scat, do you know the Raisinet trick? Where you pour some on the ground along the path about fifteen minutes before heading out and then encourage them to inspect deer scat? Which you then touch and declare “very recent” before popping some in your mouth and announcing it was from a “female, about two years old. Likes beech leaves.”?
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As the father of a 5.5-year-old-boy, don’t I know the only things they are interested in are LEGO, (killing) LEGO vampires, Star Wars, farts, poop, underwear, and various unholy combinations thereof?
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