Talk Talk Talk

 

I was in the supermarket the other day and witnessed a lady curse out her three-year-old daughter like it was a normal thing. The child got scared and ran away from her but then came back and it was all willy nilly again.

I am all for disciplining children. I mean, you have to do what you got to do to get your child to respect and listen to you but it made me think about a few things.

Children walk into a classroom setting and they will curse out their classmates and teachers at such a young age and the teacher will think that because they are reporting it home that their child is using profanity, that it will change things. I can remember hearing kids who can barely formulate a sentence, use curse words like they were sailors; and knowing exactly what they were saying at that. To me that was crazy. You call home to say something. But if the parent does it as a way of communicating in their normal day-to-day, what will really change?  

It was none of my business, I know, but it was so out in the open that it just made me a little sad.

I think about my own upbringing and the first time I ever heard my mom say a curse word was when I was in my forties and I had never been more surprised to even realize she knew them because I never heard her use them. But every family is different.

Back on the writing grind again and I can say I probably wrote about 5,000 words today. The first free write 1000, additional words to the short story book I am gathering together, and a song that I added to my YouTube for Kids Channel entitled “Talk.”

“Talk” is about using your voice to say what you mean and to say it effectively without impatiently yelling, cursing or being rude. It’s about using your voice to speak lovingly when using your voice.

If you are interested, you can check it out at the following link https://youtu.be/k7uq74Fa0Y4?si=MhyyBwWAg3-CfhXi