Kama mzazi, somewhere along the line I discovered the "When I was a little boy" trick.
Mwanangu, pengine minne au mitano wakati, alikuwa kucheza puto na kama wengi wavulana kidogo kwamba kucheza na balloons, he popped it. He was very upset. The world had come to an end. I said to him, "when I was little boy, Mimi nilikuwa na puto na ni popped na hatimaye, 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, Prince, had died in a car accident. Wakati huu, majibu yake ilikuwa, "Now I feel bad about two things!" I shied away from using the "when I was a little boy" mbinu kwa ajili ya faraja baada ya kuwa.
Kabla ya tukio hilo wafu mbwa, hata hivyo, I had also started to use the technique to convince him to do chores. "When I was a little boy, I had to go out and get the newspaper", "clean my room", "get Mommy her coffee cup", nk.
Hii pia ilikuwa pretty mafanikio kwa wakati, but he started to increasingly rebel against the tyranny of my childhood. One event, hasa, marked the end. I told him to bring the garbage cans from curb back to the garage. He argued and I responded, "When I was a little boy, I had to take the garbage back to the garage." He responded, "Oh yeah! Well when you were a little boy, kwamba ilikuwa ya kijinga!".
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