For his birthday, the wife and I purchased the game Elefun for the boy. I may have mentioned before that he likes elephants, and what kid doesn't like fun? So it seemed like a perfect fit.

And it turns out that it has been, as he greatly enjoys playing the game. For those unfamiliar with the game, there is an elephant with a fan inside, and the fan blows little paper "butterflies" up through the trunk and into the air. Each player holds a net, and the object of the game is to catch as many butterflies as you can.

The unexpected thing is that I also enjoy the game. I enjoy it, primarily, because I have won 100% of the time I played it. It's natural to enjoy doing things that bring you success. Some might think that I should be ashamed of myself for bragging about beating a two-year old at a game of catching paper butterflies, or for gently pushing him out of the way to catch that 19th butterfly to beat the house record (previously also held by me).

To those people, I say that you clearly don't know what it takes to raise a champion. Charles Jeter, he never let his son Derek win at anything. Derek now makes in excess of $20 million per year, plus endorsements. Earl Woods didn't give Tiger any free passes, and Tiger now is a skillionaire, and I have a man-crush on him (I feel comfortable saying that because thousands of other straight men also have man-crushes on Tiger). William Gates Jr. probably never played Elefun with his son Bill, but I bet that if he had, he wouldn't have let Bill catch a single one.

My point is that I'm teaching my boy to earn his victories. I'm making him tougher. In turn, he'll parlay that toughness into millions and millions of dollars, with which I will retire.

My secondary point is to brag about that new house record I set.