Have you noticed that during the most crazy year that any of us have ever seen in our lifetime,

we're also seeing common courtesy and civility fade, especially in our online interactions.

Today, Neil and I discuss why civility, kindness, and respect are so key to making

progress in surviving all the challenges we face in this world. We talk about why it's vital

that we pay attention to what we're saying in front of our kids and the tone we use to express our opinions,

putting ourselves in the shoes of others before criticizing,

and just offering more grace and kindness to others as we navigate our families through uncharted waters.

Hi guys, welcome to today's podcast.

Hi, I'm here with Neil and we are going to talk about

civility and this is something that Neil and I have been just chatting about

recently it's hard not to see this as, for me, at least like a glaring topic that just

needs some attention because of all of the unrest going on in the division and a lot of strong

feelings. Strong feelings can be good sometimes and we're going to talk about that in a minute but

just a desperate need for people to be a little more civil

and a little more kind in their interactions. And I'll start out by basically sharing where this idea came from so a few days ago on a mom group that I

belong to in Orange County on Facebook there was an anonymous member post where a mom said,

do you plan on sending your kids in the fall with masks? We're thinking of going

public, like to public school, but not with masks. And and she said I've read that it's

recommended but not mandatory and I'm wondering how many are going to actually

send their kids with masks any idea and there are currently 459 comments on this and a lot of them are heated and a lot of them are

very impolite, you know, people using swear words and just being pretty unkind and uncouth to each

other.

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