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by saghm 1526 days ago
Honestly, I think that almost anything that would otherwise be interesting can become tiresome to people who experience it too much. I remember reading that the Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, would video call one of the Red Sox star players (Xander Bogaerts) to have him tell his kids to eat their vegetables when they were refusing, and it worked! The kids clearly were Red Sox fans who were impressed to hear from one of their favorite players, and yet, the fact that their dad was this player's boss was somehow not suitably impressive. No matter how impressive you might otherwise be to them if you were a stranger, it's hard to avoid being boring to your own kids.