Goldfish Diversion
One of Bobo's favorite books is A Fish out of Water by P.D. Eastman. In the book a boy gets a goldfish, and despite the warnings of the pet shop owner, he feeds the goldfish too much. Bobo loves this book and knows that you only feed a goldfish a tiny bit. This week we went to Wal-Mart and got Bobo a goldfish. It was $2.50 for the bowl, $1.50 for some colored gravel, $2.00 for some food, and $0.14 for a goldfish that Bobo got to pick out. That is right. A goldfish costs fourteen cents. When Bobo gets spun into a rut, it is very useful to have an activity like feeding the goldfish to take him out of his self-replicating swirl. Twice a day I can use this wild card to feed the goldfish a "tiny bit" with Bobo. Besides being a diversion, it teaches Bobo about caring for something else.
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