Life's hard

'E' turns to me and says, "I don't know what to do."

My usual response to this is, 'I'm not here to entertain you, so wipe down the cabinets, dust, or clean your room. There is plenty to do. If you have energy to whine, you have energy to help me clean.' They are reminded real quickly not to whine to mom about their boredom.

So today I thought, let's change it up and see what happens. So dramatically I said, "Wow, life is hard when you just don't know what to do!"

'E' replies seriously: yeah, it's real hard. I just don't know what to do.

(I should have stuck with my basic then at least something would have gotten cleaned.)