Dear Next Generation: ‘Teach Children to Think of Others’

Dear Next Generation, an advice column from readers to young people. Photo by Shutterstock

In the aftermath of receiving a verbal tongue lashing from a close relative, my downcast grandmother shared this piece of wisdom with me: “An unkind word spoken in haste can never be retrieved.” Those words have stayed with me over the years and helped me to hold MY tongue many times.

Jeanine Trofholz, Nebraska