Running on empty

I officially ran out of effective parenting tools today. The well's done gone dry.

The four of us were sitting down to lunch and Hank was pestering Hope when I instructed him "to stop being so childish."

There was a quiet pause while Hank tried to process this message and then, right before he was going to ask for clarification, Mr. Bickerson mumbled to him, "Granted, you ARE a child."