The kids had an argument at the dinner table tonight (which, bizarrely, did not involve the volume of Alice’s mastication). Alice had decided to count the cups on the table and ended up at the wrong total because she’s forgotten how to count. Corwin and Charles immediately started correcting her but Alice, convinced of her numerical ascendancy, denied their claims. This lead to a crescendoing frenzy of ordinality until eventually I had to forbid all counting at the table. At least it distracted Corwin enough that we didn’t have to endure a constant stream of suggestions for improving Alice’s table manners.