After a fat zoot I too sit and stare, drift off into a quiet place and plan my next upgrade. The missus thinks I am a wierdo, 2 hours every night of just me, my girls and a few smokes. I know we shouldn't smoke in the sacred room but I just crank my extractor up and everything is chicken soup. Take away my grow room and I will probably curl up and die, either that or lock my 4 kids in a cupboard.
As for the kids getting involved in ya grow, I used to let my now 9yr old come help me when he was about 3 years old. Imagine this....... He was with me one evening when I was taking cutting. The next day I had left the door open up to my grow, he had taken his own plastic scissors up to the grow and started doing his own cuttings, rockwool cubes and all, he took about 20 on his own........ oh my god you can't imagine the descimation he caused, I didnt know wether to laugh or cry, he was so proud of himself when I found him doing his thing.