I Secretly Listened to My Son Play Fortnite for a Week: This is What I Learned

C Hardin Hansen
Nov 5 · 6 min read

I wouldn’t call it spying exactly. I saw it as a strategic lingering. I wanted to know more about this significant part of my ten year old son’s life so I did what any normal parent would do and found myself in the hallway outside of his room regularly and repeatedly for a week “cleaning”. I happened to have my notebook with me at the time. But I’m a writer…

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C Hardin Hansen

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C Hardin Hansen is a screenwriter (Pavement , HBO), a teacher and father who grew up in San Francisco but lives in exile in L.A. but he sort of likes it.

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