Occum's Razor - Keep It Simple Stupeed

Occum's Razor - attributed to 14th century monk, William of Occam states that the simplest answer is often the correct answer.  We, as human beings, tend to overcomplicate things to achieve an answer.

No duh.

But with boys everything gets complicated until I use Occum's Razor on my kids.

Homework - they ask me the questions as I look at math problems that seem more a work of contemporary art rather than something that actually has an answer.  After an hour of me trying to figure it out while they EXPLAIN it to me, the answer is simple.

Google that shit.

Get Outside - I can go over all the reason why they should be outdoors to play, the fresh air, the muscles in their body, the pictures of fat people of Walmart on the Internet.  But that's too complicated, it's simple.

Take away the electronics.

Clean the room - I have shown them petri dishes with a swab of the floor of their room.  Stood a towel up showing that it actually stands on its own, explained the threat of disease from the rodents attracted to the room.  But to get them to clean it?  It is simple.

Shut the door.  Once it get to a point where THEY can't stand it - it actually gets clean.

It is simple, the answer that is.  But when boys are confronted with a problem that has two solutions - one that is simple and doesn't require any work, or another that is complicated and requires removing various tools from Daddy's toolbar for use, then conveniently forgetting them somewhere.

It's simple, they choose the complicated one.

Aristotle once said, "Nature operates in the shortest way possible."

Why can't boys?