As soon as they could walk and pay attention, however limited, we started taking them with us. During their preschool years, we lived near Mt. Vernon. Because our duplex was on land that originally belonged to George Washington, we could purchase a family membership at a reduced annual rate. Any day they got a bit stir crazy, we’d drive down and walk around the grounds. They loved asking questions of the docents and the actors in costume. (After one trip through the long line to see the manor, though, when relatives visited, we avoided that. They didn’t have the patience.)