"Today's math assignment: A waste-processing plant handles five thousand cubic feet of garbage per day. Multiply this by the square root of the plant's total holding capacity less the total number of pages in their environmental policy documents to find out how many employees receive a three percent salary raise next year."

 "Mother, would you rather finish the ironing or help me with my math problems?"

                                         "Ask a stupid question..."

                       "The cute little girl from next door said she'd call me."

"I feel like I've been waiting for hours...  But I don't mind because, well--  It's her.  She's the most special person in the whole world!  And now she's going to talk to me!  At last!!!"

                                 "Hey--  Is that the ice cream truck?"

                                              "She can leave a message."

"GM can catch a whole lot of balls in his mouth at one time!  My friends just love to play ball with him--"

                                                "--until he sneezes." 

         "I will not eat this stupid oatmeal...  I know, I'll scrape it down the sink!"

                                          "I'd better be real quiet..."

                        "Mothers tend to have radar for this sort of thing..."

"Father says Mother spent too much at the mall.  Mother says she didn't. Father says she did.  Mother says she didn't."

 "I wonder if I should tell them about the fabulous bargain I found on Ebay."
 

                                   "The hands left a rhino in the kitchen."

                                "So Mother says we'll just eat out."

The cute little girl from next door is here to visit Deena again. I'll bet she's never seen anybody balance on a huge ball before!"

                                                   "Uh-oh..."

                                                      "Well, that was stupid."

"Mother's been carping about my room again.  I guess I should at least clear a path to my bed."

                           "Maybe if I pile everything up against this wall..."

                                                  "YIKES!!!"

                    "The new neighbors are here to get acquainted."

              "Aw geez, I thought I had closed the door to my room..."

"Uh-oh...  Father says my toys are out of control again...I suppose this means no trip to the toy store this week..."

                                            "How'm I gonna cope...?"

"Math assignment: Joey went to the library and found 15 books he liked. But he borrowed only 7.  What fraction of the books did Joey borrow from the library?  Oh, that's easy--"

                "He didn't borrow a fraction.  He borrowed the whole book."
 

                   "They really ought to warn me when they're doing taxes!"

"It's my turn to wash the dishes again.  Is this the way my life is going to be?  Just endless heaps of dirty dishes???"

                           "Mother says no, it won't be quite like that..."

                                           "There will also be laundry."

"I've thrown all my paper airplanes out the window.  Time to make some more..."

 "The neighbors seem to be finding them really interesting! I should definitely make some more..."

 "Uh-oh--  Father wants to know what happened to that pile of papers he left in here."

              "How was I supposed to know they were bank statements?"
 

                "Oh, wow!  I just thought up a great plan for playing hookey!"

"I'll spend the whole day up on the roof!  They'll never look for me up there!"

 

"Math assignment: Convert the following amounts between cups, pints, quarts, and gallons."

                       "I think I'd rather just live with approximations."

"Father says we don't use our imaginations enough. He says that when he was our age, he played telephone with two cans on a long string."

     "Poor Father...  It must have been embarrassing to admit a thing like that."