Monday, April 16, 2007

Why Children Don't Gossip


Teens gossip. Adults gossip. Children don't. Why? To me, gossip is spreading salacious tidbits about other people in order to make ourselves feel better. This trivializes what we say. To children, almost anything they encounter is new, bigger than life and a source of amazement. Children tend to shout about what they see rather than whisper about it behind a hand. Maybe we all need to rediscover the amazement of our universe.

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