Child development - no so much terrible two as meddling moaners

I only managed a couple of episodes of The Wire, but this quote sums up the phase Boo is going through at the moment. 'There you go. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.' Falling into this category are: his insistence that I must not wear socks, his demands that Ben replace the lightbulb with one which we know to have blown and his belief that he should be allowed to dictate the bedtimes of everyone in the house.
His interest in his own jobs - eating, allowing us to attend to his personal care and sleeping - is minimal. He needs constant reminders to chew when his mouth is full of food, so wrapped up can he be in sticking his nose into things that are simply none of his concern. He can be endlessly fascinated by a sequin on the other side of the room, whilst simultaneously being incapable of maintaining focus on a mouthful of water for long enough to swallow it without incident. Fortunately, he's cute which is all that's stopping us from incarcerating him.