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Why you should teach your kids to gossip

Inside: Good Gossip Rules to read with coffee, teach your kids, and hang on your fridge.

Did you hear the one about Kelly?

Something in our heart either leaps or panics when we hear someone whisper those words. Gossip is delightfully delicious, contagious and bad. Right? I love what John Courson has to say on the subject of gossip.

Gossip can be disastrous. Teach your kids to gossip the correct way! Click image to download your free "Good Gossip" Rules.

“between friends”, by Seth Doyle

A gossip, or talebearer, hurts three people: the person he talks about, the person he talks to, and himself.

First, in a very real sense, people are who we say they are, regardless of whether what we say is true. People will either be lifted up or put down in the estimation of others by what we say about them. Jesus draws a direct parallel between murder and the tongue because we have the power to kill another person’s reputation with our words (Matthew 5:21-22) Second, telling tales, or gossiping, hurts the person who listens because it affects the way he or she will view the person being talked about. Finally, gossip hurts the talebearer himself because every time we gossip, we become smaller and smaller. As has been wisely said, great minds talk about ideas or ideals; good minds about events; small minds about people. In which company are you?

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