How to Argue With an Elementary-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #65

P=Parent
C=Child

C: Know what the best super power is?
P: What?
C: The best super power you could have I think would be to think about your favorite toy and have an arrow appear to point you in the direction of that toy.
P: That would be cool.

How to Argue With an Elementary-School-Aged Child (And Lose) #64

P=Parent
C=Child

P: Oh, you're gonna read the book about Benjamin Franklin?
C: Yeah, I'm gonna read that before the fiction book about Benjamin Franklin. Although, reading non-fiction is like going through a small hole in a brick. Reading fiction is more like going through wavelengths of soft, smooth, buttery cheese- you can move in any direction.
P: That's why mixing them up us good.
C: Yeah... non-fiction is just facts and more facts and you end up sending fax. Get it? F-A-X?
P: Ha, ha.