Як бацька, somewhere along the line I discovered the "When I was a little boy" trick.
Мой сын, магчыма, чатырох або пяці ў той час, гуляў паветраны шар і, як і большасць маленькіх хлопчыкаў, якія гуляюць з паветранымі шарамі, he popped it. He was very upset. The world had come to an end. I said to him, "when I was little boy, У мяне быў паветраны шар, і ён выскачыў і ў канчатковым выніку, 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, Прынц, had died in a car accident. На гэты раз, яго адказ быў, "Now I feel bad about two things!" I shied away from using the "when I was a little boy" тэхніка для суцяшэння пасля гэтага.
Перад інцыдэнтам мёртвых сабак, аднак, 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", і г.д..
Гэта таксама была даволі паспяховай на некаторы час, but he started to increasingly rebel against the tyranny of my childhood. One event, у прыватнасці, 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, Гэта было па-дурному!".
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