A bad example

If you read my blog regularly you know that my son took five friends to a movie yesterday, and after that three of them slept over. In the car on the way home after the movie, one of the boys said the word retarded in a not nice way and I reminded him the same way I’d reminded him a year before that that wasn’t nice to say in that way and that I found it offensive. As the night went on he said it a couple more times and I corrected him each time. One of the other boys told him if he said it again he was going to punch him because it wasn’t right. By about the fifth time I had to say something I’d had about enough and nicely told him that if I heard it again I’d have to send him home. I even tried to help him relate by asking him if anything bothered him including remarks teasing him for being a boy scout and he said no there was nothing. He said that he kept saying it because he was used to saying it all the time. This just helps prove my point that children follow their parents example, and that ignorance, prejudice and lack of consideration of others begin at home.

Category: Family, Life