Casey Zeman talks about his kids Dale and Clarence at their new school's after-school program, where a counselor told them only siblings could hug. His kids didn't correct her. Casey reflects on the exhaustion of constantly explaining their relationship.
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When they just want to be siblings. We started going to this new school And Dale, who's 5, you know, the time she was crying because she had, you know, it's a new school. She had not really been to full big school before and it was after school and they were at the after school program. She was really sad and crying and my, and my son Clarence goes up to her and gives her a hug and one of the counselors comes out and says like, hey, hey, no, no, no, no, no, no. Only, only siblings can hug. Only siblings can hug, you guys. You can't hug. Obviously they're siblings. What was really interesting is that my kids didn't correct this counselor and I think it's because fatigue of like we have to do this again. We have to tell this again. We have to talk about this again.