[He doesn't need to know what the "test" was actually confirming.
Which left, of course, the way to finish handling this... meal. Suffering through it certainly was a price to pay for this charade and allowing the child to get the better of her. She pushes the food around a little on the plate, taking a couple of small careful bites and then a strategic sip of the water again. Ugh.]
How is your meal, little brother? [She can tell he's hardly eaten much of it, and that's just another undercurrent of annoyance.]
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Which left, of course, the way to finish handling this... meal. Suffering through it certainly was a price to pay for this charade and allowing the child to get the better of her. She pushes the food around a little on the plate, taking a couple of small careful bites and then a strategic sip of the water again. Ugh.]
How is your meal, little brother? [She can tell he's hardly eaten much of it, and that's just another undercurrent of annoyance.]