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azurelunatic) wrote2003-03-05 01:40 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-03-05 01:40 pm
Uncertainties
Am schooling Little Fayoumis on how to leave uncertainty in things. Take, for example, calling ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ralmathon to see if he can come over and play.
I call, and leave a message tellingralmathon that Little Fayoumis would like him to come over and play.
An hour later,ralmathon has not called back or shown up.
"He doesn't want to come over," Little Fayoumis says sadly.
I point out that maybe he doesn't want to come over, or maybe he wants to come over but he's too busy to come over, or maybe he was asleep and didn't answer the phone and hasn't checked his messages and didn't know we would like him to come over, or maybe he isn't even home.
Or maybe even something else.
I think he's learning. Bit by bit. There are some answers that are not simple. We won't know until we find out, what the answer was.
Today, we covered use of the Playstation. If he asks, or says he wants to use it, but Mommy doesn't say anything, that doesn't mean she meant yes. Until she says yes or no, the answer is "Maybe later". For assuming a yes, he had to wait one hour before he got to play on it.
ralmathon to see if he can come over and play. I call, and leave a message telling
ralmathon that Little Fayoumis would like him to come over and play. An hour later,
ralmathon has not called back or shown up. "He doesn't want to come over," Little Fayoumis says sadly.
I point out that maybe he doesn't want to come over, or maybe he wants to come over but he's too busy to come over, or maybe he was asleep and didn't answer the phone and hasn't checked his messages and didn't know we would like him to come over, or maybe he isn't even home.
Or maybe even something else.
I think he's learning. Bit by bit. There are some answers that are not simple. We won't know until we find out, what the answer was.
Today, we covered use of the Playstation. If he asks, or says he wants to use it, but Mommy doesn't say anything, that doesn't mean she meant yes. Until she says yes or no, the answer is "Maybe later". For assuming a yes, he had to wait one hour before he got to play on it.
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(I was incoherent before the Pratchett. Now I've reached a whole new level of thingamabob.)
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