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Have You Ever Noticed: Simon Says Edition

My kids were playing Simon Says the other day and I have to say I’m outraged.  Have you ever seen kids play this game? Have your kids  ever played? In a world where we are uber concerned about critical thinking skills and are banning dodge ball out of safety concerns, I’m pretty sure we should make banning Simon Says a priority. Because I’m fairly sure it’s a foreign plot to take over the country. If you visit any comment board about anything remotely political, you’ll see some dolt cleverly refer to sheeple.  Sheeple: People who are sheep .  See.  It’s funny, because it is original.  Or, it at least it was original, if you first used it in like 1850.  Anyway… What more is Simon Says than an exercise in making children into sheep?  I mean, come on.  Red-Light/Green-Light at least has the fact that its teaching rudimentary driving skills going for it. Simon Says is essentially a sheeple generator.  It is a game comp...