Sniglet wrote:
. . . I was thinking that maybe we could give him treats in his lunch he could share with other kids (maybe even the "bully") to try and break the ice. . .
As long as this is done with a light touch and slightly underdone, I think this is fine. Maybe give your son just a little extra to trade. And if the first person he offers to trade with wants to, then he has a little extra to trade with a second person and then that's it. If the first person he asks doesn't want to, that's fine. He likes the item himself. Maybe there's a little extra he can save, maybe not even that. In other words, your son is not over-invested. (probably disadvantageous to ask a second person if the first person declines because then it looks too much like begging, unless the second person really has a primo food item and you directly want the trade)
If your son knows about baseball, maybe the example of percentage baseball, shading an infielder slightly over, setting the outfield back two steps, left-handed batter vs. left-handed pitcher, etc. None of it is guaranteed to work, but it does put the odds more in your favor. And also keep a light touch and don't read too much into it the times it doesn't work out.
As an adult example, I lived in Las Vegas for a couple of years and tried to make money playing poker in casinos. I tried not to talk at all at the poker table because I played better than way. What I would do after playing poker was go over to the sports book, watch a little TV, and see if I could get some friendly conversation. As I slid into the chair, I might ask, "How's the game going?" And sometimes the person was talkative and sometimes he wasn't. Sometimes the person might even be too talkative. And if they're not talkative, theres' a hundred reasons they might not be, none of them having to do with me. (And oh yes, the poker, I lost and then slightly came out ahead, but way less than I would have made at minimum wage!)
05 Nov 2013, 11:59 am
