"You don't get to keep going like this for any longer," Thomas said, his voice ever so slightly stern. He hardly ever actually pulled rank since he didn't really like doing it, but he was hardly going to sit by while his son exhausted himself.
"When I get you some earbuds tomorrow I could always get a whiteboard too. You could keep a list on there and cross things out. I always lose my planners except the one taped to my desk at school."