- Pet your dog or cat for a few more minutes than usual today.
- Volunteer to do community service.
- Take a child to experience something new.
- Try picturing an adult who drives you crazy as the sweet little child s/he was, whom you would love despite his or her flaws.
- If you have a teenage child who is driving you crazy, look at his or her face while s/he is sleeping.
- Invent a better way of writing “his or her,” and “she or he,” and tell me about it.
- Give away a possession you love to someone who would appreciate it.
- If you live a cluttered life, spend an hour today organizing the room you spend the most time in.
- Close your eyes and take three slow, deep breaths.
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This is my 2007 thesis for Lesley University's Masters of Education in Curriculum Design, focusing in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools:
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Honestly, I write “he.”
We’ve taking things to far when we can’t use he for a generic pronoun anymore, or he for animals we don’t know the gender of. The his and/or her thing drives me nuts.
It’s like the chairman thing. While I understand it’s possibly vaguely sexist, we all belong to the race of man. It doesn’t always just mean male.
And, it’s a lot easier and less stuffy sounding to just use “he.”
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