One of the many joys I take in being the parent of a ten year old boy is finding new ways to make him laugh or think a little differently about questions and things in the world. I’ve used these techniques over the years:
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Погрешно његова питања:
Син: Који је данас дан?
Тата: Један дан пре среде.
С: Не, ког дана у месецу је?
Д: Ох, то је 4 дана након Јан 25.
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Голицај му и реците му да ћете престати када престане да се смеје.
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Идите низ степенице у ТВ сали и саопштава, "It’s good to be the daddy." Онда, покупи га да се топло место на каучу и промените канал на нешто добро, као СциФи каналу.
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Read stories out loud. Insert ridiculous sentences in the middle of the story. My favorite is to add "killing him instantly" when the main characters encounters some minor trouble. На пример, "the knife slipped in his hand, сечење кажипрст, убио га одмах." Nothing quite gets your son out of a complacent and passive listening mode as the main character being killed instantly.
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Read stories incorrectly. Read sentences backward. The best part of this is that the first couple of times I did this, my son thought he was helping me out by pointing out that I wasn’t reading the words in the right order. The down side is that he really doesn’t want me to read to him any more.
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Go to Burger King for lunch. My son would eat BK morning, night and day if we let him. When going, реци му, "I know you hate going there, but we simply have no choice." When he tries to explain that he loves BK, talk over him and say things like "We don’t have time to argue about it! We’re going and I don’t want to have a discussion!"
(Ово ме подсећа на мог омиљеног вица Борг: "Borger King: We do it our way. Your way is irrelevant." hahaha!)
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Отворите књигу на страну 9 и кажу, "hmm, that’s an odd page".
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Fill the world with arch enemies. "We’re going to run quick over toe 7-11, arch-enemy of 11-7".
"Your aunt lives in Ringwood, Арцх Енеми до града Скуаревоод."
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Возимо до Масачусетса из Њу Џерсија неколико пута годишње и обично је потребно око 5 hours door to door. As we arrive home and pull into the driveway say, "oh, Заборавио сам, морамо да брзо цртицу на Хоме Депот."
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Када гледате неког насилног инцидента у ТВ емисији (као што су Хероес), реци свом сину, "some times, на раду, I need to destroy my enemies by burning them alive using the powers of my mind. I don’t like doing it, али мораш да урадиш оно што мораш."
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Када гледате лоших хорор филмова (see "It’s good to be the Daddy" изнад), ascribe improbable motives to the evil character. На пример, tell your son that the reason Jason is so angry is because he wants some cake and they won’t let him have any.
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Explain phone numbers incorrectly. Instead of telling your son to dial "201-111-2222", tell him it’s "2-011-1-12222".
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Шта трикове користите?
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