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Originally Posted by Guest
Your position confuses me.
Are you encouraging children to speak their mind using any words they choose?
That's not my position. I think words matter and it's important to respect your elders. When they are older they will understand that life is a rite of passage and until you are of a certain age, until you have met many people that are different than you and until you have seen other places than your home you will not understand the meaning of "putting yourself into someone else,s shoes".
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Children at home should answer to their parent’s rules. Once they leave home they become responsible for choosing their own words. While I would not have chosen the same words that she did, she chose those words for whatever reason. If she speaks that way in her everyday life she will be handicapped and will ultimately end up learning the hard way. But that is her burden to carry.
Why are these attacks being directed at the messenger instead of the message? Are you unable to critique the message so you must attack the messenger? Everyone who has responded should be able to understand what her message was. And BTW, isn’t the purpose of communication (the use of words) to transmit a thought or idea? She clearly did it very well. While you may not like the words that she used, how about the message that she presented?
tq