Thanks everyone. Something else happened today that really bothered me. After piano lessons, I took my son to eat at a local restaurant. About ten high school aged kids came in and and my son overheard one of them say to another "Hey that kid over there is gay."
In our town, if you do musical theater or dance or play a musical intrument instead of doing sports you are called gay or a geek and we already knew this from my son's middle school and high school aged friends, but somethow I thought by homeschooling we could avoid some of this.
A few minutes later, my son saw his high school quarterback cousin walk in to the restaurant and said he thought about pretending that he didn't see him so that his cousin could also pretend that he didn't know him and then he wouldn't be embarrassed when his friends found out that he had such a geeky cousin.
I know that I have to really watch what I say. He has enough to deal with.
