Parenting.....

Our job as parents is to raise our children, as we find a respectable way to do so.  Some families find a simplistic way and some take the straight and narrow path laid in front of them as their generations before them have done. It's the one job that has no clear cut description on how to build.  It's our lives, our wisdom we choose to spread to our children.  But this is where I can a concern, what wisdom is being spread......

My 7 year old recently came home from school only to tell me, quite mistrude, that her "friend" Minnie (not her real name) told her somethings about our family, that clearly had been from her parents. Things that from my memory are untrue~it was 7 years ago and sometimes my memory fades, but that's beside the fact.

As parents we must realize that our children hear EVERYTHING we say.....the good, bad and everything in-between!!  Children are born innocent, we as parents and grandparents are the ones to build our children.  We provide the pieces in their minds, we build the person that they are going to grow to be.  If we are going to talk in the privacy of our own homes about other people's lives that's what it should remain, private.  The innocence of a child knows not what is right and what is wrong.  They say what they hear, not afraid of hurting those people involved.  If we so choose to discuss things of a private nature in front of our children then they should be taught there are things that we share outside of the house and things that never leave the house.  I understand we are all human and things sometimes slip out, but remember those little slips can and most likely will hurt someone else.  I know I had a sweet 7 year old girl that thought she had done something wrong.....:(