I was with Rick, my daughter in law and 3 of their 4 kids. The oldest is 10 (he turned 10 that same day,) then 3 (almost 4,) and 2½.
The two year old was clueless but we broke out the baby pool and the hose and that kept the two youngest occupied. I took a picture of him during totality (about 90% here) trying to capture the color of the air and the odd shadows, but it didn’t work.
The first time the 3 year old looked through the glasses she said, Well, the sun is broken!. Then she jumped in the pool. Every time there after we got her to look she’d say, “Well, it’s even more broken!” and she’d jump in the pool. Then, as she does any time a camera is on her (which is often,) she had to pose.
The 10 year old was much more involved. However, I screwed up. We didn’t have any deciduous trees around for the sun to refract through, so we missed the most awesome part of all…the crescent shadows the leaves make. I’d forgotten about them until people started posting pictures on Facebook after it was over.
But it was a fun time with the kids. Not one of them even tried to look at the sun with their bare eyes either…and we never had to tell them not to. Go figure.
I, however, took a couple of sneak peeks, a second or 2, for whatever good it did, which was none.