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Bad News, Heirs
Judge John Hodgman
The Maximum Bad Mood Asymptote
The goal of the technique is to reduce the number of bad moods experienced by our children. The way that I do it is by combining bad news or unpleasant topics together so that we can have, let's say two pieces of bad news or two unpleasant topics. If we discuss them together, it'll put the child in a bad mood but it'll only be one bad mood as opposed to discussing pleasant on topic number one.
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