Conversation

I asked my daughter if she’d made any friends at her new school.

“Tony.”
“A boy? Do you like him?”
“No. Just a friend.”
“Have you met anyone else?”
“Tate.”
“Another boy?”
“I’m not sure. A girl I think.”

And suddenly I felt like the unenlightened, gender-centric jerk that I probably am. I need to learn to talk differently to my kids, I need to do better. May the next time my first questions be, “Are they nice? What do you like about them?”