Ted shrugs and smiles at her insistence, more or less admitting as much. They both were, for a minute there.

When she apologizes for the Avengers talk, he reaches out and squeezes her arm reassuringly. "You don't have to impress him. Just talk to him like a person. Ask him about his hobbies and his interests," Ted tells her. "As long as you don't talk about stuff that's inappropriate, kids like being treated like human beings."