Maybe our parents weren’t that dumb after all.
When Web Watch was younger, we recall that our parents did something a bit unusual with all their friends: when one of the children got sick, the parents would insist that all the kids would then have to get together and play until all the kids were sick at the same time.
This is, if our memory is correct about the situation, how all of the kids we knew ended up with the chicken pox at the exact same time.
From a parenting viewpoint, it was probably good planning; they got all their own kids through the fun of being all itchy and scratchy at the same time as all of the classmates did. It must have been like a chicken pox epidemic at that school.
Yes, Web Watch grew up in the age of “chickenpox parties”. We really don’t hear of those happening today, do we?