RE: Ulog #3 - My most unusual talent - and why phrasing matters
I love it! My brother is 13 years younger than me, and though he's a grown ass man now, growing up I was the one who would listen to him ramble on about dinosaurs or Pokemon or whatever was his interest at the time. My parents did not. Maybe he'd get "uh huh" type responses from them. So to this day he'll tell me a story about something, and my mom will say (sounding kinda jealous), "You never told me that!" Well yeah, Mom, you established pretty early that you're not interested, why would you think your adult kids would suddenly think you were? I think adults don't think about the lessons they teach kids sometimes. Like sure, maybe you're not interested in Pokemon, but your kid is so maybe at least care that they care. So good on you, I say!
This is it exactly. I get pokemon, but not necessarily everything. Digimon, for example, is still a mystery to me. I might say something like, 'Wow, that seems pretty complicated. I'm having trouble understanding which evolutions they can evolve into at any one time, are you sure there is a consistent logic?'
But most adults would have already purchased the game so they would stop talking (to them) about it. Parents, be sure your children's fantasy worlds have consistent logic, or we are all in for a heap of trouble when they grow up and run the government!
So great that you could be close with your brother! Thanks for hosting great contests :)
HA consistent logic. What's that? ;)