TG needed to soak her foot for 20 minutes and had already begun, but I didn’t know how long she had been soaking it.
Me: How many minutes do you have left?
TG: I think I started at 7:22.
*Pause – so she can do the math*
Me: How many minutes do you have left?
TG: It’s 7:30 now.
*Pause – so she can do the math*
Me: How many minutes do you have left?
TG: I’ve been doing it for 8 minutes.
*No pause – because she wasn’t even thinking about doing the math. Like her father and grandmother, The Girl is a math wizard and most definitely had already figured it out in her head.*
Me: How many minutes do you have left?
TG: 12.
Me: Why did I have to ask you a question more than 3 times before you decided to answer it?
TG: I don’t know.
Me: Yes you do. Why didn’t you just answer the question that I asked?
TG: I thought you wanted to know how long my foot had been in it.
Me: If that was what I wanted to know, that is what I would have asked.
Why does she think she knows what I want to know more than I do? Why?
Please tell me this happens to other people, because it happens to me almost daily. It’s not just me, right?
Roshaunda D. Cade 
It is most definitely not you. My kids do this to me all the time. Sometimes they even cut me off and answer the question they think I am asking without bothering to hear what I’m actually asking. I’ve also had them get mad at me because they think I actually mean something different from what I said, and what they think I mean is offensive to them.
Ok good. It’s not us. It’s them. 🙂