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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I have three kids and I always want them to be 100% honest with me but I really don't want them to be 100% honest with people outside our circle of trust. Being polite and interacting with strangers requires a certain level of lying.
When they screw up honesty gets rewarded by a less harsh punishment or no punishment at all and we make it very clear what the punishment could have been if they had tried to hide it.
I realized at some point in their teens my kid was awful at lying. We could always tell. And it wasn't like a "we know him so well" thing. He was genuinely bad at it. And I made the conscious decision that it had to change. So we worked on it, kinda like you'd work on any skill. Like you'd practice vocab words over dinner or something. He's not going to turn suddenly evil over it, and it is a better life skill to have than to not.
On a parallel note, I think dad jokes are a good mechanism to teach the ability to be deceptive, or at least duplicitous. When my kid says, "I honestly can't tell of you're being serious right now" I consider my job well done.
Something else I should have added. The side effect of not being able to lie well in his case was also being gullible. He often couldn't tell when he was being deceived. It helped having practiced and talking openly about it.