Bob Foster's Blog » DeClan Galbraith http://bizmaverickblog.com Helping small businesses get started and grow. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:30:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Children are Watching and Listening http://bizmaverickblog.com/children-are-watching-and-listening/ http://bizmaverickblog.com/children-are-watching-and-listening/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:24:17 +0000 Bob Foster http://bizmaverickblog.com/?p=498 One of my favorite bloggers, Judith Ellis, made a post on her blog, The Being Brand, this morning, entitled Being a Child. It has to do with a 4th grader’s question to President Obama at a town hall event in New Orleans. This young boy wanted to know “Why do people hate you?” Judith’s post includes a CBS News video of the question and the President’s response. I encourage you to check out Judith’s post.

But, to me, the most important part of Judith’s post was her words following the video. Here they are:

When adults behave badly we snuff out the goodness and innocence of children. Children are sponges. We really must be more careful; children are watching and listening.

How true this is, and I don’t think any child has expressed this better than DeClan Galbraith, when he recorded the following back in 2006. I think he was around 11 years old at the time:

(email subscribers, view on my blog)

As adults, parents, business leaders, teachers, family members, neighbors, government leaders, and just plain “folk”—what are we teaching the children? Really teaching them?

Thank you Judith, for this important message.

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