Take a walk. Find three things Rivet would absolutely steal — a good rock, a bottle cap, a feather, whatever catches the light. Lay them out at home and let your kid make the case for which one is the best haul. The case is the whole game.

Pick something: an object in the room, a person, a plan you're hatching. Your kid has to figure out what it is, but they only get five questions. When questions are scarce, the lazy ones get cut fast. The thing they catch onto is that one good question is worth three weak ones.

Your kid plans a small build, a snack, a route somewhere. Halfway through, quietly take away one thing they were counting on — an ingredient, a tool, a step. Then let them finish anyway. The plan was never the point. What they do when it breaks is.

For one day, the challenge is to do one helpful thing nobody asked for, and not announce it. Clear the table, refill the dog's water, fix the thing everyone keeps stepping over. See if anyone notices. If they don't, it still counts — that's the part worth learning.

Two of you build one thing together — a blanket fort, a block tower, a snack plate — with one rule: no talking. You have to read each other and sort it out by watching, not telling. It's harder than it sounds, and usually a lot funnier. Working with someone is mostly paying attention, and this is where they feel it.

Each of you picks something of yours the other one actually wants — a toy, a trading card, the bigger half of dessert. The trade only counts if you both walk away okay with it, and "no deal" is a perfectly good answer. Working out what something's worth to the other person is the whole skill.