(A loud smacking noise comes from the boys’ room.)
Me: “Boys…I am tired of telling you that violence doesn’t solve problems. Do you need a seriously long timeout?”
Liam: “What if there was a guy…and his name was ‘Violence’, and his job was to fix other people’s lives, and then we could say, ‘Violence DOES solve problems!'”
Me: (death stare)
Xavier: “Dude…shut up…or the violence will just be beginning.”