Anthony walks into the kitchen to find me running the last serving from a box of Raisin Bran through a kitchen strainer.

ANTHONY (15)
Are you washing your cereal?

TROY
No, just sifting all the tiny broke pieces out. I don't like those.

ANTHONY
That's quite a process.

TROY
Not really. I've learned you just gotta be smarter than your problems.

ANTHONY
Your problems seem more trivial than most people's.

TROY
They are but a lot of work has gone into making it that way.

Sometimes I think I would like to have an honest accounting of what my children think of me. Then after exchanges like the above, I think it is probably better that I don't. I'm confident I'd need something stronger than a kitchen strainer to deal with that.