Explaining English Idioms to My Kid in the Kitchen

With a little help from Jedi High Council member Yoda

Photo by Megan Bucknall on Unsplash

We have two teen boys.

One is astonishingly observant, devilishly articulate, and beyond extroverted. In private we call him The Chairman.

The other is full-stack philosophical, undeniably clairvoyant, and otherworldly thinking. In private…