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Rock-Paper-Scissors Could Save the World
Wisdom learned from my children
The other day I was trying to herd my 7- and 5-year-old into the bathtub. If you have children of a similar vintage you’ll know that this is not always the easiest of tasks.
Neither one of them wanted to go first and I could see that the evening was beginning to take a turn for the worse. They were bickering and arguing and not listening to me or my wife.
*sigh*
Instead of turning to alcohol (for me, not the kids), I suggested they play a round of rock-paper-scissors with the loser having to go first for a bath.
They agree to this idea without complaint and immediately turned to each other for the duel.
Rock
Paper
Scissors
Shoot!
My son played a rock which was nicely covered by my daughter’s paper. She won and he was in the bath before I could say “don’t wear your socks into the tub.”
That was so easy, I thought to myself. What a great bloody idea. A simple game of rock-paper-scissors, that’s all the…
