Get used to it. America is about the right to protest government action. When the few dozen True Americans start implementing their New America, there’s going to be lots of protests – And seeing as you aren’t one of the True Americans, you’ll be among them.
We always had colored hard boiled eggs and hollow plastic eggs where our parents put candy and sometimes a little money (nickels and dimes). They would all be hidden around the back yard for the kids to search for. Lots of fun.
It would be cooler to give him an outside job, except . . . . sublimation.