Thanks for all your posts and support, all! Sounds like education really is the way to go.

Nighthawk, I guess I'm much luckier than you... this is something I can pretty much just wash my hands of. It'll likely be the only time the situation comes up... I can hardly imagine the strain of dealing with something like this day in and day out

His aunt mentioned during our conversation with him that there is some Scot in his family. I think I'll follow up some on getting him kilted to get him (and them) more comfortable with it. I know several amongst us are of the no-Scot-required camp, but it may be an important association for him to make. Of course, whatever happens is for his parents to decide