Do you love your family?

Ethan is currently participating in an Australia wide study entitled Growing up in Australia. It's an Australian government initiated study to look at things such as early childhood development and parenting. Every so often a researcher will come by and ask questions to both Anthea and Ethan. Today was one of those days, and after it happened Anth rang me up at work.

"Ethan had his Growing up in Australia interview today."
"Yeah? How did it go?"
"Good. Well, not really that good. Little bugger!"
Groan. "What did he do?"
"Well, she asked him things about how he liked school, and how he was doing, and how he liked to play, and he was ok with most of that. But then she asked him about home life."
"And..."
"Well, she first asked him if he liked to go home after school. And he said No."
Groan.
"And then she asked him if he liked being at home. He said No."
Groan.
"So then she asked him if he loved his family. He said No."

You get the gist of his responses. Anth thinks that the assessor knew he was playing up, but it still frustrated her. After she left, Anth asked Ethan why he answered the way he did. I must have trained him well because his response was:

"I just wanted to stir her up."

Ciao for Now, Groaning Angry Dad.