Secret Codes and Eight Year Olds
My son loves to take the long walk to the mailbox with me. He likes to carry back the junk mail, look through catalogs and ask me about the multitudes of stuff I seem to get, and he always wonders why I’m such a popular guy to get so much mail, when he gets nothing. (it’s 70% junk, 30% bills believe me.)
I decided the other day to go ahead and send him a letter. The thing is, getting a letter from his dad, from his house, isn’t really all that big a deal as far as things go, so why not make things a bit fun for him?
I remembered reading one particular strip in the Calvin and Hobbes series where Calvin was getting “mysteryâ€? letters. Calvin is so enthralled by this he yells to his mom; “This is real secret agent stuff…it’s so cool, I have to go to the bathroom!â€? I thought I could do something like that for my eight year old, Cooper. …Maybe something in a strange-alien-secret agent-mystery code.