BBV, whoah.

[howardtreesong]

At a dinner last week, I was talking to a friend about his consulting business when my elder daughter, now eight, came over to interrupt. The conversation went something like this

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[purplehaze9]

Brag: Daughter is a genius
Beat: 8 year-old sits with adults during serious conversations
Variance: You guys have interesting conversations

[howardtreesong]

Nice one. I posted this just on the brag portion, obv.

Now that I think about it, I might change to:

Variance: Daughter adds to adult conversations.

in which case, that might be the beat as well.

[pb9617]

Introduce her to my son. This weekend he gave his dog a treat and asked "Is she more likely to bury it or gnaw on it." I said "Bury it". "No dad, she buried the last one, she's more likely to gnaw this time."

He's three.

[howardtreesong]

They will continue to shock and surprise you in a positive way until you are too old and addled to perceive it. I hope your son is hugely geeky, by the way: it's the only way he'll have a shot with my daughter.

[pb9617]

I'm not sure yet. He likes hockey and baseball, but his true love is reading. And trains. And reading about trains.

[howardtreesong]

What is it about trains and boys? Neither of my girls have shown even the slightest interest in a train (although they went nuts over a couple of tanks we saw in Normandy) but instead become superexcited at the sight of knitting needles and beads.

[divides_by_zero]

[x]sorely tempted to make a joke about results-oriented thinking

[x]knows any such joke would never live up to expectations

[x]kids say the darnedest things

[howardtreesong]

[x] give it a whirl, this blog's audience is sufficiently geeky that most of it may well get the joke you intend

[x] now that you've previewed the idea, the joke is going to suck

[?] it all had to go down this way