Test answers that should get full credit

But don't...

The question:
Is the story "Sunken Treasure" a fiction or nonfiction story? Explain how you know.
Answer:
Nonfiction. Because we saw a movie about it, so there's proof.

At 9 years the line between fact and fiction is still every so faint. It has taken us the last 4 years to convince him that cartoons are fictional. We have succeeded there. But movies with actors are fact in his world.

And to make matters worse, he has found the book Dragonology. This is a wonderful imaginative "reference" book on all things dragon. Because of the writing style, I can't convince him that it is all made up. He is convinced that it is fact.

Further proof that he will grow up to be a republican.

Ooh. Did I really say that?

Things I never thought I'd hear myself say

Again. That's two in one week.

"Pay attention and stop eating the grass!"

At a baseball game in which Lastborn thought it would be fun to eat large quantities of grass instead of play in the outfield as assigned.

I know that it won't make him throw up like it will the cat and I fondly remember chewing on a blade of tall grass as a child, but handfuls?

This is not OK.

Things I never thought I'd hear myself say

Lastborn! Come down off that stop sign!