Thank you for your comment Diana. You’re obviously a very considerate person. But I’m just not prepared to switch from ‘my son’ to ‘my kid’. A kid is so generic and unpersonable, a little detached also. It’s probably great when used in comedy, but when I want to say something intimate to honour my son, I’d say “I’m so proud of my son for working hard and following his dreams to get the job of his dreams” — somehow saying “I’m so proud of my kid for working hard and following their dreams to get the job of their dreams” doesn’t have the same ring to it. It’s all about emotion, it’s about how I was raised. I will continue fighting for the beauty in the use of singular, personalised, intimate language.