Q to Kilted with school-aged children

[Frog]

I moved into my wife's house about 8 months before we got married last August, she has a 14 year old son. He and I don't talk much - we are both quite shy around new people, and he is much slower to warm up than I am, which doesn't help, nor does being "weird" in ways the other does not participate in/appreciate. Also, he doesn't do well with change he does not have control over. While he has not said anything negative about it, he hasn't said anything positive about my kilt-wearing. His friends have occasionally had comments (the ones I've heard were positive - or condescending/sarcastic?) but nothing has gotten back to me or his mom (or she hasn't shared them with me,which could be a possibility, I think). At any rate, schools put considerable amounts of time in my area into trying to teach more tolerance than the parents might have. Your children should not have to be concerned (but I know it depends on where you live - face it, some places are worse than others) about it. Whether that is effective depends on how far you want to pursue it - that strikes me as a silly comment - we are different, why wouldn't we come to the aid of others who are being persecuted (kin or not) for having to live with us? For whatever it is worth.

Frog