Hmm… i'm thinking six is a good number.
At six, kids have good language skills, imagination and the workings of logic. All stuff one can happily mess with. i think.
See, not having any kids of my own, i really don't have much experience with them. However, since the various inlaws and outlaws don't exactly have a shortage of kids, it's up to me to figure out how to be a "good uncle". Fortunately, the oldest is just over six, so i shouldn't have too much trouble corrupting her mind keeping her entertained, but i'm not 100% sure what would be the best approach.
Oh sure, there's the DS, and she's at the age that i could tell her the Great Green Gorilla joke (which will probably take 10 minutes if i pad it out correctly), and i suppose we could spend quite sometime drawing stuff, but there's always the lingering sense that there's something else i could be doing to let her know that her God Father isn't a boring stick-in-the-mud.
Although i suppose that's half the fun isn't it? Trying to guess what will make her light up.
i'm betting she'll be even more fun when she hits ten though. That's when i can show her how to make baking soda and vinegar rockets and kinescopes out of strips of paper and not worry about her mom killing me on sight.
