(I managed to convince my dad that the earth was old and that dinosaurs did not roam the earth with humans this way, so it has some merit.)
This aside’s quite important; it sounds like the inferential distance between you and your parents is huge. Trying to bridge it in one fell swoop is quite ambitious, so I’d err towards a slow & subtle approach. (Not that I have much experience with this problem!)
This aside’s quite important; it sounds like the inferential distance between you and your parents is huge. Trying to bridge it in one fell swoop is quite ambitious, so I’d err towards a slow & subtle approach. (Not that I have much experience with this problem!)