Someone insulted me the other day, and it hurts. It was a young female. She called me a name, right to my face, and her words cut me to the quick. Why would someone do that? Why would anyone be so ...

We were wrong. As children we stuck our tongues out at the playground bully and hollered with a fake bravado, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." We were wrong.

Sometimes, well-intended grown-ups give really terrible advice to children. This realization has become increasingly clear to me as I parent my own kids and re-evaluate some of the hard, fast mantras ...