It’s
great to be a kid. All of life’s most pressing, earth-shattering decisions –
like who gets to play shortstop – can be made with a simple flick of the wrist
or toss of a coin. No board meetings or conference calls – unless of course you
consider congregating on a see-saw a ‘board’ meeting, or talking into tin cans
connected by string a conference call. No, kids get to make their decisions in
much more fun and colorful ways.
Here
are 10 of them:
- Rock, Paper, Scissors – A favorite means to
settle issues between contestants. You need only keep in mind the proper
hierarchy: Rock breaks Scissors, Scissors cut Paper; Paper covers Rock.
If, however, the kids are fans of the TV sitcom The Big Bang
Theory, things get a tad more complicated.
- Card Draw- This can be a simple
process whereby participants each draw a card from an ordinary deck of
laying cards, with the high card draw winning. Alternately, it can involve
trading cards which are valued according to the player or character
represented on the card.
- Coin Toss – The simplest and
perhaps oldest of all decision-making techniques. Pure chance, two
possibilities, 50-50 odds. Now all we need to do is find someone who’s got
a quarter. This sometimes involves a quick search under sofa cushions.
- Dart Throw – Occasionally this is
substituted for the coin toss when there is a dartboard in the vicinity.
When making decisions, you can decide the winner by proximity to the
bull’s-eye or by the numerical value of the area in which each dart lands.
- Magic 8-Ball – “It is decidedly
so.” This toy has
been the kid version of the horoscope, and has decided the fates of
little league teams and puppy loves for decades. Just ask it a ‘yes-or-no’
question, shake it up and, voila, there’s your answer.
- Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Moe – This rhyme can be
used in various forms – or extended to one’s own advantage if need be – so
it’s best to set the ground rules at the outset when employing the
veritable Eenie-Meenie decision-making device.
- Spin the Bottle – There’s generally
only one decision to make with this technique and it’s primarily employed
by older kids. So you young whippersnappers can stick with the baseball
cards for a few more years before we go into detail, OK?
- She Loves Me- She Loves Me Not – Pluck the
petals from a flower, reciting the rhyme to find out whether s/he does in
fact have feelings for you. This one often goes together with #7.
- One-Potato, Two-Potato – Players begin with
both fists held out in front of them. A neutral party counts on each fist
in succession, “One potato, two potato, three potato, four; Five potato,
six potato, seven potato, more.” On “more”, the fist counted would be
placed behind the player’s back. Repeat until just one player, the winner,
has a fist left in front.
- Bat Toss – This is normally
used for choosing sides in baseball. One player lightly tosses a bat to
another, who catches it in one hand. His or her grip marks the starting
point, each player alternating grips above the last, to the knob of the
bat. The top grip wins.
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