Saturday, September 04, 2004
Anyone who doubts that man is one of the animals has never lived with a group of eight year olds. It's entertaining.
The tricks to dealing with children are apathy and encouraging self reliance. yeah sure you can swing from the rafters, just don't hurt yourself. can I pee off the top of this tree, go for it dude. you really can't make them do what you want, so give up. let them do whatever they want as long as its not going to hurt them too badly. next point, self reliance=less work for me. where are you going to sleep tonight, you better set up your tent. will you open this ketchup packet for me, no if you were really hungry you'd get it open. so they learn and and you don't have to do stupid things like open ketchup packets for people. you give them a list, then let them pack their own backpacks. If they pack weird stupid heavy stuff like their whole shower kit and a harry potter book for a 4 hr hike, then they have to carry it and they don't do it the next time. and in conclusion I just got a thankyou card from one of my kids and his parents with a check for 75 bucks in it, yes I am that good.
The tricks to dealing with children are apathy and encouraging self reliance. yeah sure you can swing from the rafters, just don't hurt yourself. can I pee off the top of this tree, go for it dude. you really can't make them do what you want, so give up. let them do whatever they want as long as its not going to hurt them too badly. next point, self reliance=less work for me. where are you going to sleep tonight, you better set up your tent. will you open this ketchup packet for me, no if you were really hungry you'd get it open. so they learn and and you don't have to do stupid things like open ketchup packets for people. you give them a list, then let them pack their own backpacks. If they pack weird stupid heavy stuff like their whole shower kit and a harry potter book for a 4 hr hike, then they have to carry it and they don't do it the next time. and in conclusion I just got a thankyou card from one of my kids and his parents with a check for 75 bucks in it, yes I am that good.
