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"Mama, you're so beautiful, do you want to watch TV?"Submitted by Emile on Fri, 03/16/2007 - 3:11pm.
My three year old DS has discovered the power of flattery. He said this, and you know what, he got to watch TV. not with the formal language of a rhetoritician, but she encouraged me to make a case for my position if we disagreed. sometimes, i even prevailed!
i like that he said, "do YOU want to watch tv?" because you are just so beautiful that you should have the priveledge of some tv watching. how cute. "Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane." |
when we go to the beach, i like to sit and read while dd likes to play in the waves. she was asking me as we packed the car and rode over if we could play in the waves and i was saying "i want to rest a while first, i worked all day, let me read a chapter, then we'll play." she tried convincing me but it didn't work. so we get to the beach and she obligingly plays in the sand next to me long enough for me to sit down and read about a paragraph tehn she goes, "mommy, you're so beautiful when you're swimming."
i read an article in a parenting mag in a doctor's wating room by a man who teaches his kids rhetoric. he taught them to use pathos, ethos or logos to be persuasive. when they want to do something he doesn't necessarily agree with, he encourages them to make a case for it, rather than accepting no for an answer.
"Rap music belongs in the rubbish bin! It encourages punching, boastfulness and rudeness to hos!"