You're in the grocery store. You bump into a co-worker who is on mat leave, and she has her adorable little baby with her. The only thing is, did she have a girl or a boy? You want to ask questions about the baby, but you don't want to make that dreaded mistake of assuming the wrong gender. So, consider asking something like this: "And what is your little one's name?" It's a fail-proof gender-free question . . . unless the baby's name is Pat. Or Jesse. Or the growing list of boy-names-for-girls. So, then your follow-up question: "And how old is Jesse now?" "HE is six months." See, I told you. Fail proof.
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