why do these things only occur to me when I'm the only one in the office?

[healingmirth]

Every time we publish a form at work, I want to make an effort to change our parent information section to say "parent 1" and "parent 2" (or guardian, or *something*) instead of "mother" and "father" but I never find out about these things until after they've been distributed, and by that point it feels like pointlessly causing trouble. We have had and will likely continue to have GLBT staff members, and I find it baffling that we publish forms that our staff members could not fill out... accurately? Is that the word I mean?

The signature line has always said "parent/guardian" too, which makes it doubly baffling to me.