I had a rhetoric professor in college who would have us all read our essays aloud one by one. When I finished mine, he would exclaim, "Everyone take out your imaginary .22 and shoot Andrew in the nuts," and then explain why my writing was bad. It was an interesting teaching technique, but effective nonetheless.
Don't be afraid to threaten your toddler with the same. It just may reduce the number of tautologies.
I asked my wife if she thought this approach would work and, without batting an eye, she just said if we tried that our daughter would probably just remind us she was hungry and demand a bowl of nuts for her bedside table.
If that's the feedback you got, I can only imagine what he said to the truly bad writers!
Ah...she knows all your old tricks, although yours were more sophisticated as they did not involve bedtime but rather "experiments" throughout the entire day (and you never requested "medicine").
If she were not so outrageously cute, she probably would have a harder time getting away with it. I, for one, can never say "no" to her, or any of the grandbabies. I guess that is the luxury of being a grandparent--I don't have to. In fairness, one is able to tolerate most anything in short increments. I know they all go home to their mommy and daddy eventually, sooner rather than later, and mostly too soon, thus the reason I tolerate anything. Is this a tautology?
Happy to see that you did get to eat, however. I love you and miss you, and thoroughly enjoy viewing your life and your perceptions and your food (of course!) through Cow We Doin'.
Your use of footnotes is a killer technique. Reminds me of Month Python’s use of subtitles at the beginning of Holy Grail.
Thanks, Matt — that’s a serious compliment!
I had a rhetoric professor in college who would have us all read our essays aloud one by one. When I finished mine, he would exclaim, "Everyone take out your imaginary .22 and shoot Andrew in the nuts," and then explain why my writing was bad. It was an interesting teaching technique, but effective nonetheless.
Don't be afraid to threaten your toddler with the same. It just may reduce the number of tautologies.
I asked my wife if she thought this approach would work and, without batting an eye, she just said if we tried that our daughter would probably just remind us she was hungry and demand a bowl of nuts for her bedside table.
If that's the feedback you got, I can only imagine what he said to the truly bad writers!
Ah...she knows all your old tricks, although yours were more sophisticated as they did not involve bedtime but rather "experiments" throughout the entire day (and you never requested "medicine").
If she were not so outrageously cute, she probably would have a harder time getting away with it. I, for one, can never say "no" to her, or any of the grandbabies. I guess that is the luxury of being a grandparent--I don't have to. In fairness, one is able to tolerate most anything in short increments. I know they all go home to their mommy and daddy eventually, sooner rather than later, and mostly too soon, thus the reason I tolerate anything. Is this a tautology?
Happy to see that you did get to eat, however. I love you and miss you, and thoroughly enjoy viewing your life and your perceptions and your food (of course!) through Cow We Doin'.
Indeed, she is VERY lucky she's cute!