“I pretend that I’m deaf and cannot hear,” she adds.

"Shartnado"

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Annnnd...there it is: homeschooling. I thought I detected the stench of talibangelical gender essentialism. Well, honey, why don't you just go wipe your feet on your Christian homeschool doormat wife. Then you can read her and the kids iron age fairy tales while she makes you a sandwich. "Men" like you aren't worth a…

"There has to be an opportunity in raising the [male] kids to break things...."

So, "boys will be boys" is the enabling bullshit philosophy with which you raised your boys?

This has bothered me, too, but you have encapsulated the problem far better than I could have. I find it to be a typical Spielbergian male-centric story.