🧒Child

Setup and Launch

Explain the roles: the mom doesn't know the "crime" that was suggested, the detective and child both know and describe the same event from different angles. The child minimizes the seriousness (euphemisms, innocent phrasing), the detective dramatizes and heightens the same thing without inventing new facts. Set the statuses: detective higher, mom middle, child lower.

Ask the audience for a safe, everyday "misdeed" (for example: drew on the walls, stole a cookie, skipped class), avoiding traumatizing topics. Seat the mom separately from the "case," the child next to the detective — this makes the contrast clearer. Agree: nobody names the answer directly; the mom formulates hypotheses aloud.

How It Runs

1. Setup. The detective briefly frames the situation and status ("Your son is with us in the children's room…"), the child gently makes excuses, the mom establishes relationships and gets involved with questions.

2. Gathering facts. The mom asks clarifying questions (what, where, with what, when). The child answers softly, the detective immediately "translates" the same fact into a heavier formulation. Don't introduce new events — only shade the same one.

3. Narrowing the circle. The mom voices versions aloud; the detective's pressure and details help narrow down to the exact action/object/place, the child confirms in soft phrasing. The trainer watches pace and status, stops briefly if needed to remind actors of their roles and call for specificity.

4. Finale. When the mom names the exact answer (action + object/context), the trainer confirms and ends the scene. If stuck — let the mom narrow the frame with a question about place/tool and allow the detective to emphasize it.