Did you read about the 13-year-old who made a power point presentation to convince his parents to let him play a video game that’s for 18-year-olds? Well, it went viral and soon a whole bunch of kids started making slide shows about why they deserved everything from cell phones to more screen time. This got me thinking, why not make a power point presentation convincing my parents to let me download Fortnite? They’re being super weird and saying ‘It’s not appropriate’. Then why are ALL the other kids in my grade playing it? Even A’s parents who are SUPER strict have allowed him to play it. Plus, it’s super lame to know all the Fortnite dances off of YouTube videos and not from playing the game.
Taking charge
So, I decided to make a power point too, and I’m going to share my ideas with you here, so you can try this too!
“Keep it Short and Sweet” doesn’t apply here. The longer it is the better. A 50 slide presentation will make it look like there are loads of reasons why you should get what you want. Plus, I’m thinking by slide 15 your parents will fall asleep and when they wake up at the end they’ll feel so bad for falling asleep they’ll get you what you want!
Music for the win! Preferably something soft, soothing and with powers of hypnosis, so you can helpfully ‘suggest’ to your parents that they should get you a Wii.
Big font size in all the colours of the rainbow and with animations thrown in. If you use a font size of 8, good luck filling in 50 slides. The colours and animations will hopefully distract them!
Cat videos and GIFs! Research shows that people respond positively to requests after seeing videos of kittens and balls of string. Ok, I made that up. But it sounds totally true right?
Make it sound like you will learn something! If there’s one thing grownups LOVE, it’s the idea that kids will learn something! Trust me on this. If you can find research on how a mobile phone or a video game will help you get good grades, add it the presentation!
In the interest of total honesty, I want to tell you that my presentation was an EPIC fail! Not only did my parents grade it (I got a D — for poor spelling, lack of punctuation and poor use of logic) they then made me do a new presentation on how to make good presentations. Sigh. There’s no justice in the world.
If anyone has better luck than I did, write me!
