My son was relaying a dating strategy that he had heard, “You give the ‘Shush’ and then go in for the kiss.” The party he heard it from indicated that it works almost all the time.

With a shake of my head, my response was swift and firm, “Women don’t like to be ‘Shushed.'”

Without skipping a beat, my observant son replied, “That’s what Mom said.”

See, I’m listening.