Date: 17/04/2026 12:39:37
From: ms spock
ID: 2381472
Subject: re: Chat April 2026

Arts said:


Divine Angel said:

Ordered a game online called Golden Sausage. Mini Me got upset at me stealing her hand (in accordance with the rules) so despite writing a whole essay about developing resilience by using rules in games, I let her win. Except she decided she didn’t want to win and is actively trying not to win. So a game which is supposed to take ten minutes is now taking forty minutes lol.

around the time of my first pregnancy I asked everyone i knew what was the one thing they thought every parent should know to raise decent humans. A good friend, who is a primary school teacher, said “Teach them how to lose”

that one really stuck with me… and so I did…

my son was getting super good at chess by about year four or five.. he was a giant nerd going to chess classes and playing online, and around this time he was learning some meat moves and strategies – the game just appeals to his brain… One day we were playing and I was thinking “Oh shit – he’s finally going to win one against me” but then he made one vital mistake and I swept in and won about two moves later… he realised his mistake and was very annoyed with himself. It was at that moment that I retired undefeated from our chess matches.. and have never played him again (he will be 19 this year).

Wow he’s 19 now.

You are an undefeated chess champion!

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