We are driving home from school.

Rachel: Why did you move into that lane and then this lane?

Me: Well, I know that this lane is going to stay clear and the other one is going to slow down.

Rachel: How do you know that?

Me: (I go into long lecture about how many times I’ve driven this route. Out loud, I try to roughly calculate the number of times I’ve driven the route.)
….so I’ve probably driven this route between 1000 to 2000 times.

Rachel: Or maybe 5000 times!!

Me: Well, maybe….

Rachel: No, wait. It can’t be 5000 times because tea was invented 5000 years ago.

*You know that the joke is not about homeschooling, but about the communication between me and my daughter, right? Good.