Ryan Hanley

I love the idea machine.

Yeah, I love that.

It's funny.

I had a conversation with my son the other day.

He did really poorly on a...

they call it ELA today, I guess it's like reading in English, we would have called it English, ELA, a test.

And he was confused as to why he, you know, and he was frustrated and he was mad and he does pretty well in school and just, you know, I said, bro, wins and lessons.

Like, yeah.

two days ago, you sucked at sentence fragments, right?

But now, you know them better.

Like, you didn't really fail because now if you were to take that test again, you know what a sentence fragment is versus, you know, that was what the test was on or whatever.

And I was like, wins and lesses, man.

And like, it was almost like,

saying wins and lesses instead of like, I failed the test.

It like loosened his body up.

I like could see his shoulders like loosen.

And then all of a sudden I watched his, you know, cause before when I was kind of helping him with the ones he got wrong, I could tell that he had the wall up.

You know what I mean?

The like dad, you know, shut the fuck up dad wall.

And, um, and then like when I said, I looked at him and I go, dude,