The Power of Words

In the middle of the Privacy blog I had an epiphany of this blog. The power of words. Do you remember when you were little and someone one was picking on you and you said, "stick and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me." But as one teacher told me..."Words do hurt and you must watch what you say."

I think that is more than true when it comes to conversations that we have about Jon and Kate. I think that it is one thing to talk about how you may or may not have handled that situation, but it is another when you start saying that they are intentionally putting one of their children in harms way or hurting their children.

Every parent has the right to discipline their child the way they see fit, but we as observers must remember what we say when we see it. It's one thing to say something when you see a parent wailing on a kid, and quite another when you see a parent sit back and do nothing. I do not want anyone to think that I am saying that Jon and Kate spank their kids or abuse them. From what I have seen on TV, it is quite the opposite. They use time out and stern looks to get their point across. (If only that would work in my house....sigh the thought of it is lovely.)

But anyway...the point I am trying to make is that we are all adults here and we should practice what we would tell our kids. It's not nice to call each other names and it's not nice to assume or insinuate things if we don't mean them or mean for them to be taken the way they are. But this is just food for thought.