Life snippet
May. 4th, 2007 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexPygment and I are finishing up our shared shower-and-planning this morning. We're having a conversation as I step out of the bathroom.
K: "Daddy could you whisper? We're playing a game and pretending it's night time."
Me: "How about you pretend I'm not in your game?"
K *thinks*: "OK!"
Pygment avoided laughing out loud, for which she deserves credit. After finishing up I went and whispered to the kids about my needing to get dressed, which they approved. It's all about validating the kids' frame of reference.
K: "Daddy could you whisper? We're playing a game and pretending it's night time."
Me: "How about you pretend I'm not in your game?"
K *thinks*: "OK!"
Pygment avoided laughing out loud, for which she deserves credit. After finishing up I went and whispered to the kids about my needing to get dressed, which they approved. It's all about validating the kids' frame of reference.
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Nested Reference Frames
Date: 2007-05-04 07:04 pm (UTC)But the problem with trying to validate the kids' frame of reference is that such frames can get pretty complicated, complex, and even nested.
Once, when my elder was still a toddler, she came sashaying into our bedroom making "Ooooo, Ooooo" noises. When she got closer, she said "Pretend I'm wearing a sheet".
Not "Pretend I'm a ghost"; "Pretend I'm wearing a sheet".
How far down the fantasy was I supposed to go?
Re: Nested Reference Frames
Date: 2007-05-04 07:23 pm (UTC)