"What's wrong?"
"I am reading science and it just doesn't make any sense to me."
"What doesn't make sense?"
"The book says one thing but the rest of the world says something else."
In comes the oldest:
"That's called using facts to slant an argument in the direction you believe it should go regardless of the actual facts. Mom, you never made me do this science."
"You did science."
"Not at his age."
"Crap, you're right."
The conversation went down hill from there to the point where the oldest pulled out the common core standards and asked the youngest all the questions he should be able to answer to pass the standard.
"See he's done with science for the year and it looks like he's done till 8th grade."
There aren't many days that they team up against me, but today they did and won. They used facts and slanted them in their direction. I could have fought it but I know that this will not be the last time that my youngest will learn about animals. I will stick it in with all his other stuff so he won't even notice it's science. Just like I did with the oldest.
