Out of the Mouths of Babes
Friday, September 14, 2012
We've all heard that "talk is cheap" and "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you". We learn by around age five that those sayings just aren't true. Words can wound. Psychologists tell us that we're already wounded by that young age, and it's more likely that the damage was done by words, sometimes by parents or siblings, and sometimes by peers and friends. It hurts the five year old to learn that other do not love her as much as she loves herself.