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Bring the Family

Scavenger hunts for curious kids and brain-dead parents

By Hayley Kaufman

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 14, 2012

Sometimes parents need a minute, a timeout when they can plant their ever-widening girth on the couch and let the old brain flatline. For a few of us, it’s an opportunity to spend some quality time with the Real Housewives of Whatever City Happens to Be Airing at that moment. On rare occasions (my chin quivers with shame as I write this), my kids curl up on the couch, too, drifting alongside me toward the sunny, High-Def Isle of Catatonia.

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