Readjusting to a new school year takes a lot out of a kid and a parent. New teacher(s), a new configuration of students, new friends, old friends who become more distant, old classmates who become deputized as potential friends. It is a little jarring having to grasp a whole new slew of subtleties that your mind had learned to gloss over by the end of June a few short months before. To rest in between days at school, my children are turning to us more than usual for comfort in the form of being read to, which can fall by the wayside when they are feeling more sure of things. They also like to watch a show with one of us. Dog tired, getting back into the routine, I am less tolerant of their choices and I have been inflicting my own, especially on my daughter. We've started watching Midsomer Murders, a classic British "whodunit", on Netflix. Other than a ghastly murder near the beginning the rest of the shows are a relatively monotonous enterprise of eliminatin...