Great American Teach-In-Help with?

[Taxg8r00]

I know a lot of people have kids on these boards so I figured I would ask this question here. My five year old son has the Great American Teach-In next week. For those of you who don't know what it is basically parents come in and talk about their profession. I have been asked by my son's teacher to talk about being a lawyer. Yeah, I know really exciting for 5 and 6 year olds.

To make matters worse I am a tax and transactional attorney who handles things like mergers/acquisitions, estate planning (i.e. wills and trusts) and contracts.

I have been throwing around using a lemonade stand example in my head where I explain how if you have a lemonade stand and either want to sell it or have a customer how a lawyer might be used. I can obviously talk about the schooling involved in becoming a lawyer. I am just hoping to find something that is fun and exciting for the kids. I don't want them to be bored out of their minds.

Anyone who has any ideas, please let me know. BTW, if they were older I would definitely go the route of lawyer jokes because it loosens up the crowd quite well, but in this case not so much.

[deathroll]

Lie. Lie BIG! Tell 'em about how someone made an addition (math, see relevant) error and how you had to hunt 'em down and beat 'em with one of them judges gavels and then physically "drag" 'em into court. From there you verbally outwitted, outlasted, outargued the opposing counsel in a fierce battle. The guilty party then got chained to a wall in a dungeon until he escaped through a poster of a buxom blond on the wall, crawled through poop (kids love poop stories) to safety and now lives on a beach in Mexico. You however still slave away every day protecting the public from kids that never learned how to add during the 5th grade.

I "taught" in a teach-in high school biology class once. I remember thinking how truly difficult and boring it was to have to give the same 50 minute lecture 8 times in a row; bought killed me. I do not know how teachers do this day in and day out.