Your 2 year old tires of the mundane sameness of the alphabet and switches to mirror writing 'for fun'. You fear she will be writing entirely in code by kindergarten.

Your 5 year old gets into an unnecessary theological debate with a classmate because he does not/cannot believe that someone that old (5) isn't fully conversant with the Big Bang theory.

While your 3 year old provides a one sentence explanation of how Genesis, the Big Bang, evolution and dinosaurs are all mutually compatible. You wish she had shared her analysis with her brother and consider sending her on a world peace tour.

And YES to the better consequences! I now ask what they think an appropriate consequence would be and they invariably come up with something both more appropriate and more onerous than what I would have imposed!