The other night, we were sitting at the table eating dinner and our older daughter was once again lagging behind everyone else, eating slowly and picking at her food.  But instead of getting upset and making a big deal about it, this time I tried a new technique in hopes of speeding things along.  I produced my library-loaned copy of Susanne Langer’s “Introduction to Symbolic Logic” (the revised second edition from 1953) and I told my daughter that I would proceed to read aloud from the book until she had finished eating.  Then I started to read:
“All science tries to reduce the diversity of things in the world to mere differences of appearance, and treats as many things as possible as variants of the same stuff...”

After only two pages of reading, my daughter was completely finished with her dinner.  

I am now waiting to receive my “Father of the Year Award” in the mail.