They say the most difficult period in raising children was the three-year-old crisis. This was the age when children learn to be independent, and then insist on their independence. All of that, as a rule, was accompanied by constant shaking of the head and endless repetition of the word "no"; selectivity and even excessive capriciousness towards food and clothing, which can sometimes end with a demand to eat a whole pack of crackers for dinner and a request to immediately sew a jumpsuit in a specific color.

But as for your and Simon's case, your son Alex went through this period in a special way. The "why phase."

You were both standing in the kitchen right now, making breakfast. Simon woke up later, and you got up first because your son was mysteriously whispering in your face, "Mommy, there's a dwarf in the yard." Your husband looked relaxed, but still slightly groggy, as he always was in the first ten minutes after he woke up. He was setting up the coffee machine to make himself a traditional morning cup of energy elixir when Alex spoke.

"Daddy?"

"Yeah, bud?"

The boy, sitting in his transformers pajamas at the dining table, quickly looked at his father, who was standing only in sweatpants, and then at his mother, who was wearing a robe over her nightgown, and asked with furrowed brows.

"Why Mommy has a shirt and Daddy has none?"

This question from your three-year-old made you freeze when you sliced some strawberries for pancakes. Just yesterday, you spent an hour trying to answer your son's question, "Why is a wheel a circle?" and now he's asked that.

You looked at Simon, who was frowning too, just like Alex. Like father like son. But your husband was frowning like that because he was already mentally trying to answer his son's question why he was walking around shirtless at home, and you were always wearing something on top.

"He has a point, though." You said.

Simon sighed, realizing that this was going to be a very difficult question.