This is the bottom line (pun intended) and the most persuasive of your arguments. Try a dialectic approach, though not necessarily Socratic in style. You may get better results. I stress may.
If you don’t mind, would you give me a thumbnail sketch of the dialectic approach?
I understand Socratic, as I had to practice it as a parent.
Anyway, I admit I should have stayed a bit higher above the fray than I did, which was my mistake.
I’ve long puzzled over why Tim Tebow had trouble staying in the NFL. I discarded Tim’s open Christianity as the reason for Tim’s lack of staying power, just as I discarded his ability or lack thereof. Too many QB’s in the league have skills that are as marginal as Tim Tebows.
This is why I settled on the offensive problems created by having a run-option QB backed up by a drop back QB.
Which then lead me to the idea that the backup QB needs to able to run the existing offense when, not if, the starting QB goes down.
Then things more sense.