[Xander]

**brains flicks into alternate mode**
Stories? When I were young there were none of these stories. You got a good clip round the ear before bed and you were glad of it!! Bloomin kids of today...pampered. Don't know they're even born most of em!"
**and now for something completely different**

Ivy,
Why teach so directly if your worried about such things? You know you don't have to teach a person that 2+2=4 specifically but rather if you can teach them how maths works and use parallel examples then the student will eventually realise that 2+2=4.

I think my parents started with things like when your on the phone and you say "see you later", my mother would comment that it's incorrect because I have no intention of seeing them later, I should say "I'll speak to you later". Things like that started me on the road of seeing through the first few layers of things, after which understanding of non literal things is easier. Hence you could then show them what you believe or what you've seen said & done and allow them to judge for themselves.

Just a two penneth worth.