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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don’t get the people who insist they have the right to demand information out of every person they meet. It’s so crazy and rude and entitled. [/quote]
No one is demanding anything. 
Also, a wonderful skill for any young person to learn: how to politely avoid a question they don’t want to answer. If for whatever reason they don’t want to share. 
I expect people to ask my junior next year, and will give him tools to handle it without it being a big deal. [/quote]

Clearly they are demanding answers. People here are freaking out about the idea that a child might not respond to an inappropriately personal question. It’s very entitled behavior.

Of course the kids should be armed with generic answers, and it sounds in fact that OPs son is handling the question gracefully. Handling inappropriate questions and rude people is indeed a life skill, you are correct. But that doesn’t change the fact that asking the question itself is rude, entitled, and demanding. Essentially there are two different issues here:

Is the question itself rude and entitled? Yes.

Should the tour guides learn how to and be able to handle intrusive and rude questions? Yes. [/quote]

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