Me: Ok, you want to be at the top of this cliff. Here’s a staircase, a ladder, and an elevator.
Kid: What if I free-climb the cliff?
Me: There aren’t any handholds.
Kid: What if I wear climbing gloves?
Me: That doesn’t work without handholds, try one of the options you have.
Kid: But what if I wear climbing gloves *and* boots?
Me: …
Kid: A rope?
Me: Attached to what?
Kid: Why won’t you let me be at the top of the cliff!!!!
Also: catapult, human cannonball, hitching a ride on a large bird, rocket shoes, giant springs, freak windstorm, tunneling under the cliff and somehow ending up at the top, helicopter pickup, teleportation, and portals.
*Anything* but the stairs, ladder or elevator that are actually *available to use*
Oh, and of course insisting that he’s already at the top of the cliff he’s looking up at, and that we’re trying to send him back to the bottom