when writers have kids with brain fires...
Interesting.
The Kinglet is having a downswing (for lack of a better word for it. It's what I call my low periods - his are yet to be dubbed.)
Anyway, the Kinglet is having trouble settling down to do his homework. He knows he has to do it, but he doesn't want to. On a good week, he'd do it anyway. On a down week, his whole body goes into revolt. He squirms, he whines, he rages. He complains about his brain.
So I ask him - "isn't there some part of your brain that knows you just have to do your homework? And the sooner you do it, the sooner you'll be done?"
He shakes his head, eyes wide.
"Well, what IS going on in there?"
He lights up, then, and tells me happily, "there's a fire in my brain store."
Brain store?
Yes.
"There's a store in my brain," he says. "It's full of people, and there's a fire and the doors are jammed, so they can't get to the stuff that I know." And that's why he can't do his homework.
Well that's... cool, I say.
I mean, not cool about the brain fire, but... I can totally see it!
I guess good metaphors run in the family. :)
He still has to finish his homework, though.
The Kinglet is having a downswing (for lack of a better word for it. It's what I call my low periods - his are yet to be dubbed.)
Anyway, the Kinglet is having trouble settling down to do his homework. He knows he has to do it, but he doesn't want to. On a good week, he'd do it anyway. On a down week, his whole body goes into revolt. He squirms, he whines, he rages. He complains about his brain.
So I ask him - "isn't there some part of your brain that knows you just have to do your homework? And the sooner you do it, the sooner you'll be done?"
He shakes his head, eyes wide.
"Well, what IS going on in there?"
He lights up, then, and tells me happily, "there's a fire in my brain store."
Brain store?
Yes.
"There's a store in my brain," he says. "It's full of people, and there's a fire and the doors are jammed, so they can't get to the stuff that I know." And that's why he can't do his homework.
Well that's... cool, I say.
I mean, not cool about the brain fire, but... I can totally see it!
I guess good metaphors run in the family. :)
He still has to finish his homework, though.