Teachable moments
Jun. 22nd, 2013 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexToday I was outside replacing the mailbox with my elder. The mailman happened to arrive and K got the mail from him, in which was a nicely addressed envelope for
K pointed this out to me. What, I wondered, was the problem? He said it made his head hurt.
Why was that? Well, it took some fumbling around but he got to the point of recognizing that he wouldn't like it if he was called by someone else's name.
What, I urged him to think about, did it mean if mail was addressed to a couple by the man's name? He pretty quickly grokked that this had something to do with "men having all the power" and that wasn't a good thing.
The mail item was sent by a lovely couple whom we know well and who I'm sure intended this to be a politeness - a more formal method of address. I'm not sure I can yet convince him that these people meant well, but we take our teachable moments where we find them.
Dr and Mrs MYFIRSTNAME OURLASTNAME
K pointed this out to me. What, I wondered, was the problem? He said it made his head hurt.
Why was that? Well, it took some fumbling around but he got to the point of recognizing that he wouldn't like it if he was called by someone else's name.
What, I urged him to think about, did it mean if mail was addressed to a couple by the man's name? He pretty quickly grokked that this had something to do with "men having all the power" and that wasn't a good thing.
The mail item was sent by a lovely couple whom we know well and who I'm sure intended this to be a politeness - a more formal method of address. I'm not sure I can yet convince him that these people meant well, but we take our teachable moments where we find them.
