My youngest son, Garrard, doesn’t go out much but he has lots of friends ‘over’ – at least digitally. I have often asked ‘who ya chatting with?’ but that typically gets no response. SO next time I will assume no response but will nonetheless hope to make an impression. I will ask ‘do you respect the people you’re chatting with?’

It has been my/our objective in raising all three of our kids that they be respectful of and demand respect from the people that they have relationships with – friends, teachers, parents, heck – even strangers.

In what I know of your children, they both seem to pass the ‘respect’ criterion with flying colors!