It occurs to me that I have explicitly explained to my children that teachers respond well to guessing their password and that a rule of the game is you aren’t supposed to explicitly say that is what you are doing.
“Remember this is just game, not all games have the same rules.” [emphasis mine]
Parenting in the Internet age.
I certainly did not grow up thinking “Ahh yes, core expectations for a dad imparting culture on early elementary schools include the Bible, Greek gods, and some of the LessWrong buzzwords that are instrumentally useful.”
Today’s actual problem set which caused us to have another password guessing talk:
“Here are three shapes. Draw a shape using them.”
L just concatenated all three on top of each other.
“Absolutely a shape! That is no less a shape than any other shape! But some shapes have names that we expect kids your age to know, and when a teacher says a shape, she wants one of the ones you can name. It’s a password. Can you make one whose name you know?”
Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) posts on Twitter about applying Guessing the Teacher’s Password:
It goes on a bit.