Our 13 yo daughter was working on a vocabulary assignment today, and this is how a conversation went...
daughter: Man, this dictionary is lazy!
mother: What do you mean by lazy? How can a dictionary be lazy?
daughter: Well, I'm looking up a word that begins with 'un', and the dictionary doesn't list it under 'un'; it makes you go find the original word for the definition. How lazy is that?!
mother: Honey, if the dictionary listed every single word that could take the prefix 'un', it would be so big you couldn't lift it.
daughter: I still think it's being lazy.
mother: Just out of curiosity, what is the word you're looking up?
daughter: Unmotivated.
At this juncture, the two of us just cracked up laughing at the irony of it all. It's little moments like this that make homeschooling so meaningful, don't you think? :o)