Visited a kid's birthday party and saw the saddest cardboard fort ever

I went to my cousin's kid party last Sunday in Santa Rosa and someone built a fort out of like 4 tiny Amazon boxes taped together. It was basically a closet for one toddler. I wanted to walk over and show them how to make a real two room setup with a window flap but it wasn't my place. Has anyone else seen just really sad attempts at forts where you can tell nobody in the house has ever tried before?

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coleman.henry16d ago

Is this just another sign that building stuff as a family is dying out?

wren_jackson16d ago

Are people really treating this like some big cultural shift though? I mean, maybe it's just me, but families have been DIY-ing and building stuff together in different ways forever, just not always on social media. My uncle and his kids built a whole treehouse last summer with zero fanfare, no posts about it. Feels like we're reading way into a few loud voices online.