When Your Nine-Year-Old Puts Your Life Skills to Shame

So Theo just spent his entire Saturday afternoon building what he calls a “mega awesome loop-de-loop roller coaster with working redstone circuits” in Minecraft

When Your Nine-Year-Old Puts Your Life Skills to Shame

. I have no idea what redstone circuits are, but apparently they’re very important and very complicated.

Watching him explain the engineering behind this thing made me realize my child might actually be smarter than me

The concentration level for Minecraft architecture is real

. He’s talking about physics and momentum while I’m still trying to figure out how to make the coffee maker stop blinking 12:00.

Meanwhile, Sophie rolled her eyes and said “it’s just a game, Mom” but then spent twenty minutes asking Theo to show her how he made the cart go upside down

That face when your roller coaster actually works

. Even Biscuit seemed impressed, though that might have been because Theo was eating goldfish crackers while building.

I’m adding “learn basic Minecraft” to my 2026 goals, right after “stop taking 47 photos of every family moment” and “convince Marcus his mechanical keyboard hobby is getting out of hand.”