Como un pai, nalgún lugar ao longo da liña que eu descubrín o "Cando eu era un neno" trick.
O meu fillo, probablemente catro ou cinco anos na época, estaba xogando un globo e como a maioría dos nenos que xogan con globos, he popped it. He was very upset. The world had come to an end. I said to him, "Meniño cando eu era pequeno, Eu tiña un globo e el bateu e, eventualmente,, I got a new balloon." It seemed to help him cope with his loss and led to a fun talk about what it was like when I was a little boy.
That worked well as a consolation technique and I used it a several times over the next period of time. I did get into trouble once when his Monster Rancher 3 creature died. I talked about how my dog, Príncipe, had died in a car accident. Este tempo, súa resposta foi, "Agora eu me sinto mal sobre dúas cousas!" I shied away from using the "when I was a little boy" técnica de consolo despois de que.
Antes do incidente co can morto, con todo, I had also started to use the technique to convince him to do chores. "Cando eu era un neno, Tiven que saír e incorporarse o xornal ", "Limpar o meu cuarto", "Mamá obter a súa cunca de café", etc.
Isto tamén foi moi exitosa por un tempo, but he started to increasingly rebel against the tyranny of my childhood. One event, en particular, marked the end. I told him to bring the garbage cans from curb back to the garage. He argued and I responded, "Cando eu era un neno, I had to take the garbage back to the garage." He responded, "Oh yeah! Well when you were a little boy, Iso foi estúpido!".
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