He just had to grin back at her, knowing full well that she would have him reading the manual eventually, and no amount of moaning was going to change her mind.
"Well, I'm afraid your grandmother had to be the strict one. I was much more likely to end up being the distraction from things like homework. I'd just get bored and try to get them to do something else to entertain me," he admitted, grinning widely at the memory how he'd needed to be locked out of the room when his children were doing anything academic. He'd just start telling them about how he'd barely passed his exams, and he'd turned out just fine. It was strange to be talking about family after so long.