My son the entrepreneur!

We've been paying on-and-off-again allowances to our kids for the last couple of years to encourage helping out around the house, a personal pride and sense of responsibility as well as a wee bit of financial stewardship -- but nothing recently. Then this...

My wife (to our 4-year-old): I need you to pick up the things you were playing with this morning.

Son: But [my brother] was playing with them too.

My wife: Yes, but I know I saw you playing with them. Just clean up the tools and the hexabits please.

Son: OK, but you're going to have to *pay* me.

After my wife stopped laughing, I think she told him something to the effect of, "Um, no, just pick 'em up..."