In many cases, unknowingly, we are feeding our children's young egos. We are giving them the ammunition for that competitive dialogue they have with their friends in the schoolyard or neighborhood park. Today, I live in a small community, completely surrounded by water. You do not get much smaller than an island in the Caribbean. This principle applies no matter where you live.
People love to gossip, and that includes our children.
Call it whatever you wish. In any case, our children innocently talk about us in detail. There is a big exchange of sensitive personal information about ourselves going on. Often we have, unknowingly, fed this information to our children. As parents today we have to be more aware of our words and actions around our children.