![]() ![]() I'm very happy to see the old Washington Senators win their first World Series. How do you feel when teams that moved from your city win championships? If sharing this tactic opens up lines of communication between a kiddo and their parents, I'll consider it a small contribution to the world. I used this little game to great effect with him, my second son, and my third son who is the only one left in the school phase of his life (a bittersweet fact for me). On more than a few occasions, the answers would bring up things that were teachable moments that we discussed and explored what might have happened if things were handled differently.Īdded bonus: it kept him more engaged and observant of the world around him so he wouldn't accidentally miss one of the most interesting things of the day. This method resulted in much more lively conversations on the ride home (or at home later if I wasn't on pick up duty), often times he'd recall humorous things, leaving us both laughing. I would then judge them and declare one of those things "The Most Interesting Thing That Happened Today!". I would ask my son "What were the two most interesting things that happened today?" He would reflect on his day and offer up two incidents that occurred that day. "What did you learn today?" was also ineffective.įor whatever reason, it occurred to me one day to make a game out of my information mining. ![]() Any attempts to extract more information was usually met with single syllable responses. Normally the reply was the equally age old answer "fine". When I was a newbie dad, picking up my son from school, I would ask the age old question "How was your day?". Speaking of injuries and a #TeamMoon shot It's starting to feel like someone in the text group needs to have a mid-life crisis where they pull the trigger on an emotional purchase to change the conversation away from foot pain. in Bowling Green who's pretty much in his mid-40s based on the physicalities he's forced to overcome to complete Ironmans (the guy must eat too many vegan Bobo's Oat Bites and it's causing all these emergency dumps.SMH) - and I'm starting to worry about what it's going to sound like while sitting around the pool down the road in the Florida retirement trailer parks. Now I'm starting to hear about all these issues from my contemporaries - and Millennial Chris B. My World War II grandfather never said anything, while watching the TV weather radar channel on loop, about how in the future there would be this social media app called Instagram that would be using AI to listen in on my text group conversations and then would start delivering plantar fasciitis ads at an alarming rate. I never heard my father say a thing about his feet flaring up as he was strapping on the boots for another day of running a backhoe. ![]()
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