I Am Hot I Need Shade

I am Hot! I Need Shade! I Need My I-Pad! outside tug of war coach wants me to time them, rotations will be fifteen minutes. The first group gets overheated at five. It’s too hot! I need shade! Can we go inside? I want my I-pad! Their faces are lobster crimson. For the first time ever, they feel sweat on their necks. It is morning, barely eighty degrees. I can hardly wait for this afternoon’s groups. Kindergarten, first, second, third and fifth. We have to entertain them for fifty-five minutes. Children of today melt in the heat. They get crabby and cranky. May whine. Some cry. We lived the whole summer out there Without air conditioning, without complaint. How times have changed!