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ParentDish is pleased to welcome Rene Syler to our team. Rene hosted CBS news' The Early Show from 2002 - 2006; she is the author of The Good Enough Mother, and is currently at work on her second book. You can spend more time with Rene at her web site.












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1-10-2009 @ 11:16AM
Stef said...I agree with you. We have to practice what we preach to our children. Children don't come into this world knowing how to treat other people. Everything is "learned" through what they are exposed to. At very early ages, once a child witnesses any type of verbal communcative response, or physical communicative response, of ANY nature, it is filed away into thier little minds and is automatically retrieved as an automatic response to the first similar situation that they encounter themselves. Hence the phrase, "Monkey see, monkey do."
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1-10-2009 @ 12:22PM
Stef said...We have to be more agressive as "individuals" to make differences in situations like the one you described in your blog. Too many times we are afraid to step aside from the "group" to show the others that there can not be any type of prejudices allowed to determine who is allowed to be "a member" because we are afraid of being "disowned" by that group. We are all human no matter what our differences are. Too often, it takes a horiffic tragedy to remind us that we are all human. Dont wait for that. Compassion should be viewed as a "universal form of prevention" rather then something we decide to share after the fact.
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