Пре нешто више од три године, моја супруга и ја потписао сина за летњу активност, The Midland Park Players. This is a drama group that spends about three or four weeks preparing for a play and then showing it to the parents, friends and relatives. It’s always been done very well.

Ја не знам да ли свачије дете је овако, but my son is extremely reluctant to try new things. Knowing this, we signed him up for the program. We’ve found that it’s best to alert him to these kinds of things early and often. Тако, како би се превазишла своју природну одбојност, рекли смо му рано и дали све од себе да то звуци као забава, итд. Even with a multi-month advertising campaign, he still wasn’t convinced. We forced him to do, иако, и као што је често случај, he had a great time.

У време друге године ваљани око, he had once again convinced himself that he didn’t want to participate. Али, су га потписали смо се и на зеро-даи, I dropped him off one morning at the high school where they practice. When I went to pick him up after lunch, био је веома узбуђен, сви осмеси и најавио, "The play is the Велветеен Раббит and I want to be the Rabbit". He had spent literally months carrying on (понекад хистерично) како да не жели да има било какве везе са Парк играци и после првог дана, he wants to be the lead role in the play. We’ve seen this pattern before.

(На наше изненађење, он је добио улогу зец и он је био невероватно.)

Fast forward a few years. He’s been in Park Players three times now, so he’s something of a veteran. This summer (2008), Players starts up again. У међувремену, Он нам је на крају убеђен да он заиста doesn’t want to play soccer and he never liked basketball. That left him with no extra-curricular activities for late Winter / early Spring. A client with whom I was working mentioned that his daughter was in a program called Stage Right. Stage right is a slightly more expensive version of Park Players and it’s not in my town, but adjacent to it. Perfect.

The thing to know about that town is that it’s practically another country in terms of wealth. It has a high-frequency train right to Wall Street and NYC in general. It’s just a wealthy place. One of the on-going family discussion themes is whether we should have moved to that town instead of where we live now. It’s a bigger town, његове школе нуде више програма за децу, итд. My wife grew up in that town and her parents live there, so we are "hooked in" despite not living there. I personally grew up in different circumstances in Massachusetts, so I don’t have a lot to say about this during family dinner conversation. This isn’t to say that we aren’t very happy where we live. We just know that that town is a level above our town economically.

Stage Right’s next program started too soon for us to launch our normal advertising campaign to overcome my son’s reluctance. This is when he came up with one my personal favorite arguments against doing something: "Friday nights are главни ноћи за спавање преправки!" Stage Right was going to interfere with his weekend socials.

Дан долази, ми смо га довести тамо и отпустите га искључите и као са свим осталим, његова природна љубав само бити жив преузео и он је био добар провод са њом.

Протеклог викенда моја супруга је разговарао са њим и по први пут, I think he’s tailoring his discussions very precisely for his audience. She had asked him how Stage Right compares to Midland Park Players. He tells her that "In Park Players, we have teenagers that help us out. There aren’t any in in Stage Right. In Park Players, teenagers make all props. In Stage Right, we have to bring our own props. We have to do everything. And then he twists the knife: "I thought this was supposed to be a rich town."

Све ове године, I never really thought that he was hearing or understanding anything as it related to the "rich town". Међутим, испоставило се да је.

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