Being an Example

I meant to post this a few days ago, and it never happened. Well we had our first negative expereince in regard to the kids around the area. On Sunday we had the living room window open and Chandler and Spencer love to look out and talk to kids that are in the playground right in front of our house. Well Chandler was saying kind of loudly hello, so that they could hear him. Chandler gets excited and so he starts to talk fast, so his speech problems are more pronounced. Well they started laughing and calling him names, names that Chan has never heard, so he didn't know they were putting him down. To make matters worse was that there was an adult out there with them laughing at the names that they were calling him. Luckily for the adult out there, Nate was the one that heard them saying this and closed the window. If I had heard that I would have walked out there myself and given that adult a piece of my mind. I don't now this person, but it made me think what kind of adult would make fun of a five year old boy trying to say hello and be friendly? It made me really think what kind of an example am I to my kids sometimes? I try really hard to show my kids that everyone is different from each other, and that is what makes us each special and individuals. I realize that there are going to be issues with children in school, bullies are always around. Hopefully I can teach my kids tolerance and love for one another. Sorry for getting on my soapbox here, this topic is one that is very sensitive to me. I hope that we all can try to be good examples for the kids in our lives.