Yesterday morning, my oldest son was working on hard on the computer on a history project which is due on Monday.<\/p>\n
I’m all for getting work done early, and I love that he’s so engrossed in his project, but he hadn’t gotten any of his chores done.<\/p>\n
“Okay, kiddo,” I said. “Time to get dressed and get your chores taken care of.”<\/p>\n
“No!” he said. “I can’t. I’m almost done.”<\/p>\n
“Just save what you’re doing, and come back to it. You’ve got plenty of hours left to work on it.”<\/p>\n
There was no school yesterday, so he literally had hours available to him.<\/p>\n
“What?” he shouted, instantly upset. “No! I’m almost done!”<\/p>\n
“So save it. You can finish it later. There’s no school today. You’ll have time.”<\/p>\n
“Dad,” he said, carefully speaking in a reasonable tone. “I’m almost done. I don’t need to spend any more time on it.”<\/p>\n
“Okay,” I said, truly confused. “I just want you to take a break to get your morning chores done.”<\/p>\n
“But I’m almost done.”<\/p>\n
“Yes. You’re almost done. What’s the problem here?”<\/p>\n
“I don’t have hours to spend. I’ll be done in like ten minutes. Not hours. I don’t have to spend hours on it.”<\/p>\n
Finally, the light bulb went off in my head. When I’d told him he had hours left to work on it, he thought I was saying he had to spend hours working on it.<\/p>\n
“You’re right,” I said. “Now save what you’re doing and go do your chores.”<\/p>\n
It’s weird how two people can be speaking the same language and yet so completely misunderstand each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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