On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 Starrngr@aol.com wrote:

 "C'mon, I'm sure the 3rd children has better things to do than look at 
 'nothing.'"

Subject / Verb agreement:  Asuka is talking about a single person, ergo the
term should be child, not children.

The original Japanese version of Evangelion appears to disagree with you on
this point.