Chess

For the longest time, Michael and I have been hesitant to teach Parker chess. It seemed like one of those things that he might start obsessing over and lose all sight of everything else. As one parent recently said to me, 'There are worse things to obsess over than Chess," but he hasn't seen Parker obsess and we have.

But many of his good friends are now playing it and his cousins played in here so we bit the bullet and Michael taught him yesterday. He learned the rules quickly but he's quite bad at it which made us happy. I suck at chess too so at least we are evenly matched.

I signed him up for a class at school offered by Berkeley Chess Club so we'll see how that goes.