This morning I punished my 7-year-old son for something. The punishment was that after school he was to go to bed until dinner time. My wife later called me at work after she and the kids had finished dinner. It seems my son had done homework downstairs before dinner, and is now claiming that he is no longer punished because the punishment specified confinement “before dinner” and it is now “after dinner.” Ok, he didn’t say the “specified confinement part,” but it was a pretty good lawyerly agrument nonetheless.
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