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Description

Words cannot be taken back once they are out there.
We’ll use toothpaste to demonstrate this (it can’t be put back in the tube!)
[taken out from http://osmgr.in/a/35154]

Resources

1 tube of toothpaste
Paper or plate

Instructions

With all the Cubs sitting, ask someone to volunteer to do an experiment with you.
Bring them to the front and ask them to squeeze some toothpaste onto some paper.
Then when they have done so, ask them to put the toothpaste back into the tube.
The cub will quickly discover that it is an impossible feat!
Explain to them that you used the toothpaste to demonstrate what hurtful words are like. Once you have squeezed out hurtful words at someone – there is nothing you can do to take them back in – much like the toothpaste. Stress to them that the words are out there – you can’t take them back. Therefore, if you think you will want to take them back – don’t squeeze them out in the first place!

Tags

• behaviour
• code of conduct
• speech
• words

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