How to Say Wait a Minute to Your Kids

I'm very aware of the scenarios when I say this and making sure that I have time to expand on it a little bit because it naturally leads to, what does that mean? You tell me more, like it immediately begs that question. Did you stop saying wait a minute to your kids? Kind of. It turns out this is impossible because my kids have no filter. So it doesn't matter what I'm doing. There are times when I know that I don't want to say wait a minute, but I find myself having to do it. Like if I'm doing something that's not a high value activity, like I've decided I should be doing this right now. For example