The Body Polite-ic

Today I discovered a key downside to being home sick - in addition to the sickness itself, of course. The Today Show gets really dubious after 9:00 am. This morning's main offender was several minutes of air-time - sponsored no less - spent talking with a woman who was upset that her son's preschool used "ladies first" and the attendant concept of "being a gentleman" to determine which kids in the class would use the bathroom first ahead of nap-time. I can only surmise that this woman's son is her only child, because otherwise she'd appreciate that getting multiple preschoolers to do anything in an orderly fashion is like herding barracudas - just with a slightly lower chance of getting bitten. Rather than jumping down the school's throat for using an admittedly old-fashioned approach to teaching good manners, perhaps she could have used it as a teaching moment for her own child to convey that there are multiple sets of customs that are used to display politeness.