The context of the following conversation is addison read the news paper out loud to the kids who didn't know how to read.:
addison says The kids didn't know how to read yet so I read the newspaper out loud to them..
The friend responds Did they listen?.
addison responds They were as attentive as they could be. They are all very young still..
The friend responds Young kids get restless.  They have short attention spans..
addison responds They can only pay attention to something for like five minutes..
The friend responds You have it tough..