My son got some new Playstation games for Christmas and has spent an inordinate amount of time on the game machine. After some heavy playing time, I told my son that he needed to turn the game off and use his brain in other ways. I said:
"I want you to read a book or something. I don't care what you read, just read something."
Gabe turned off the game and I went into the other room. When I went back to check on him about 15 minutes later I found him sitting next to a stack of all of the Playstation game instructions.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"You said I could read anything, so I'm reading about how to play the games" he replied.
I smiled and said... "that's not what I meant." But it was what I said and he called me on it. At some point all kids are more into the letter of the law over the spirit of the law.
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