dilemma
the boys were being boys one morning. so i introduced them to a variation of prisoner's dilemma. they each got two pieces of paper. one says truth. the other says lie. each round they secretly pick one of them and present it. two truths pay two legos to each player. one of each pays three legos to the liar. and two lies pays nothing. they both played lie for a long long time. the game was called with three legos each. they had both realized lie wasn't working and had tried truth. once. but not at the same time. heh. we started over with different teams: the boys, and me. i played tit-for-tat. i did whatever they did last time. (truth in the first round.) they figured out pretty quickly they should always play truth. everyone rapidly had a large pile of legos. it was a life lesson. cause tit-for-tat works pretty well in the real life grown up world. if i look like an ass to you, it might be because last "round" you looked like an ass to me. now, when you find yourself in an ass-ass situation with me, we should both stop and start over.