Jo-Ann... I hear ya. Must be the age range or the planetary alignment or something. My husband and I saw on a news program that the best way to deal with whining is to ignore it completely. Yeah right! I have much more patience than my hubby and even I can't ingore some of it. And my hubby... sometimes I think he eggs the whining on to see just how much whine he can get out of a short person in one sitting. I think they are trying for a world record (if they haven't already beat it).