Letters to the Editor
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Rolling Off the Tough Skin of Your Back
This is about preparing your children for life in this world. Like everything, it takes balance. There are different ways to instill the Sticks and Stones lesson into your children, and in the end namecalling can be a playful, half-serious, personal dynamic between parent and child. It can also be a useful way to vent the mountains of steam that those little shits can generate in you. There are many facets to the education that namecalling gives; a quick wit, a tough skin, a tested inner confidence. All that ends up happening if you coddle your children is that they will have to learn the harsh reality later on in life, perhaps when they are not as safe and protected as when they were children. Progress only comes through struggle. Our duty to instill this idea in our children in 'Safe Mode',under our watchful eye.