Re:Lies We Tell Kids
by edw519 on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @11:37AM
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Adults may be able to lie to children with their words, but they can rarely pull this off with their actions.
Each of us can remember the many times when, as children, we witnessed the difference between "what I say" and "what I do".
We were told not to swear, drink, smoke, or lie by parents who swore, drank, smoked and lied, not to gossip by adults who gossiped, not to cheat by teachers who cut corners themselves, to do the right thing by leaders who didn't, and to be great by celebrities who weren't so great.
Who knows, if adults actually did what they said, maybe they would have been able to pull it off.
We children may have been a little slow, but we weren't that stupid. After all...
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us can remember the many times when, as children, we witnessed the difference between "what I say" and "what I do".
We were told not to swear, drink, smoke, or lie by parents who swore, drank, smoked and lied, not to gossip by adults who gossiped, not to cheat by teachers who cut corners themselves, to do the right thing by leaders who didn't, and to be great by celebrities who weren't so great.
Who knows, if adults actually did what they said, maybe they would have been able to pull it off.
We children may have been a little slow, but we weren't that stupid. After all...
"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson