Name Calling

     Adam had a serious talk with me When he was five years-old. He doesn’t like it that I call him dumb. “Wait” I said, “I have never called you dumb.” He tells me that I call him dumb all the time. I ask him why he thinks such a terrible thing. After he explains it to me I understand, I have called him dumb every day of his precious little life. Adam translates to Add-dumb. Ok, time to explain the pronunciation and the meaning of the name and whatever else I can use to try to get this very serious, very literal child to see that his mother has never called him dumb. Besides, his dad picked the name, not my fault.