Cussing
OFTENTIMES WE ASSOCIATE late-night TV shows, such as the Tonight Show, with celebrities…
However, on January 21, 2009, Jay Leno interviewed an unusual guest: 15-year-old McKay Hatch. In 2007, Hatch founded his first No Cussing Club at his junior high school in South Pasadena, California.
According to McKay’s website, http://www.nocussing.com, the teen was dismayed at the language many of the children at his school, including some of his friends, were using. Rather than just put up with it, as so many of us are prone to do, he decided to do something about it. He mentioned it to his friends and actually challenged them to stop cussing.
He says his friends were shocked; most of them didn’t even realize they were using offensive language, and certainly had no idea it was bothersome to Hatch. Surprisingly, and very pleasantly so, they accepted his challenge to stop swearing, and thus was born the first No Cussing Club. The word spread and after one month the club had 50 members. When McKay got into high school, he founded a similar club, and had over 100 students join immediately. The word has further spread until today there are over 20,000 members in 25 countries.
Club members take the “No Cussing Challenge,” committing to use better language. However, this is not just a “negative” challenge., to not use bad language, but a “positive” challenge as well, to use “polite, respectful, and kind language.”
Further, the club’s motto is, “Leave people better than you found them.” This concept has impacted not only the recipients of the kind language, but the speakers as well: McKay relates that many club members have noticed a change in their own lives from using positive language. And the concept has progressed to the club members “looking for opportunities everyday to help people and lift them up through their words and actions.” (Liana Stanley)
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth,
but only such a word as is good for edification
according to the need of the moment,
that it may give grace to those who hear.”
Posted by Mike Benson
Food for thought?
Anna Lee
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