Boys Are Weird.

I was tutoring 2 brothers this afternoon--ages 15 and 11. We were having lunch together while we worked, and they were sharing French fries. The younger boy picked one up and in the middle of our very-serious-conversation about the qualities of good essays says, "Hey! This one looks like a gun!"

Wow--Ok, back to the books.

This is the same boy who last year, while reading a book about Knights and Castles, read this aloud to me, "Severed enemy heads were sometimes thrown to demoralize the opposition." He then proceeded to show me a lovely medieval picture of a trebuchet tossing heads over the wall of a castle. Disgusting. Knowing his sense of humor, I said, "A boy must have thought of this idea."

His response? "Well, duh!"

I love boys.