Daniel asked a question just to argue with us and tell us off

[dreamers]

Hey guys,
Daniel is the mentor who has become like a dad to almost everyone in my system. Nats is correct we are worried however we usually avoid the topic of religion. It just threw us because he asked out right. So, we figured if he was asking it meant he was inviting conversation.

Although I wasn’t fully at the front and out at the time, I think he probably asked because he was wondering why we bother with Biblical studies as a school major.

We have come up with a few strategies for if it happens again. I have told my littles and middles that it’s okay to say that we need to think ( and pray about... although probably better to leave that bit unsaid) how to answer his question and that we’ll get back to him soon.

Option 2: turn the question back on him. Like ask how he knows it isn’t true and then go into listening mode.

Option 3: say that they need to get a big since it’s a grown up question and Daniel knows we are multiple although I don’t think he quite gets how separated we actually are. Like I think he thought that I, as the adult would automatically be able to respond even though it was a teen and some kids sharing the front. Like he thinks I am always in the background, aware of the front and able to jump in at any second which might be why he asked even though I was not out.

Apparently, Daniel’s behavior triggered the kids too because we had a preschool teacher who would ask questions just to trap us ( not religious questions... more simple than that. For example, she once asked what our favorite day of the week was. She asked our whole class. Anyone who said either of weekend days got in trouble for “ implying in a backhanded way that they didn’t like her”

I don’t think 3-7 years olds are capable of being that coded in their answers but she thought so and that’s the only thing that impacted anything