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Imagine that you’re hanging out with your best friends. Everyone is laughing and having a good time. After a while, the conversation topic turns to one of your other classmates. Are you and your friends venting your frustration or gossiping about her? While it can be hard to decipher, there are key differences between the two. Keep reading to learn 5 differences between venting and gossiping. 1. They have different purposes Gossip spreads information about someone - regardless of whether the information is true or not. Generally, gossip involves another person or issue that has nothing to do with you and doesn’t directly affect you. It focuses on “spilling the tea” about another person. Gossip generally comes from the desire to be nosy, and not from genuine concern. It could sound something like, “Crystal’s parents got a divorce. I’m not surprised. Anytime I go to her house, her mom and dad always avoid each other,” or “Did you know that Diana throws up in the restroom? She probably has an eating disorder or something.” Venting, on the other hand, focuses on expressing your feelings about a person or problem. If a person has made you upset or angry, venting provides a space where you can release your emotions. Venting is healthy because it allows you to vocalize your feelings instead of holding them in. You can also get insight, support, and validation from someone else about the obstacle you are facing. Venting allows you to eventually move on from the issue. It could sound something like, “Evelyn has really been making me angry lately. She keeps telling everyone my secrets from my diary,” or “Brittany always bosses me around, and it’s really annoying. I don’t know how to tell her to stop telling me what to do”. 2. They develop from different feelings Gossiping about someone occurs when that person hasn’t done anything to hurt or offend you. Rather, you’re discussing their personal affairs for your entertainment, or as a conversation piece over the lunch table. If you don’t have anything else to talk about, you might find yourself gossiping out of boredom. The act of venting arises from frustration, not boredom. When you vent, a person has made you angry or upset, and you are expressing your feelings about it. While venting, you talk about a person, but it doesn’t involve their personal affairs - only the issue that concerns you personally. 3. The motives are different Gossip can be used as a bullying tactic. A person may spread lies and rumors about someone else to hurt, isolate, betray, and embarrass them. Gossip is ill-intentioned and mean-spirited much of the time. Venting, on the other hand, is done to express your frustration about a person or problem. It’s not done to isolate or embarrass anyone. It’s used as an emotional outlet for your personal feelings. Venting comes from hurt feelings, rather than malicious motives. 4. They feel different When you gossip, you may feel an underlying guilt, or be inclined to change the topic of conversation. You know that you should do something else more productive and positive than discussing other people’s personal affairs. Gossip almost always leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Venting feels good because it allows you to express your feelings. You feel relieved to tell someone about the issue. It feels great to articulate your feelings to someone else rather than just holding it on the inside. It is healing to receive validation and support from another person. 5. They produce different outcomes While it might seem satisfying, gossip doesn’t produce good fruit. It just creates more problems. Gossip creates conflict, especially when you’re spreading false information about a person. You may find yourself in trouble for spreading a rumor about someone that isn’t true. On top of that, a person might feel hurt, embarrassed, or betrayed that you were spreading information about their personal affairs. Alternatively, when you vent, you might find clarity on a certain issue. Venting can help you figure out how to handle the issue, such as confronting a friend about a problem. Talking through your problems may prevent you from doing something you might regret (such as impulsively retaliating). In short, venting leads to solutions, while gossip creates problems. While it can be hard to differentiate between venting and gossiping, it’s important to recognize that gossiping is focused on exchanging information about someone, and venting is focused on expressing your feelings about an issue. The next time you have trouble figuring out whether you’re venting or gossiping, consider these 5 factors to help you decide! And if the gossip is getting a little too much, you have the power to turn the conversation into something more positive. Written by: Katherine Brown IG: @kat__monae

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Hi, friends! It's Blair from One Lesson at a Time, here with a super fun and meaningful way to wrap up the school year with your kiddos. Best of all? Totally free! Whoop whoop! It's the end of the year and the finish line is ahead of us - like a mirage in the distance. It's soooo close.....and yet, right up until the very last moments, also so very far away. The last few days most of us are fighting off daydreams of late mornings in bed & sunny afternoons at the pool - and making mental checklists of all the work we're going to get done over the summer, the PD hours to fill, etc. #letsbeserious The last few days of school are the perfect time to reinforce the classroom community you’ve worked so hard to build. Even though most of our students share our enthusiasm for the end of the year on the outside, it can be easy to forget that for many of them - even for most of them - this transition time is one that comes with a degree of uncertainty and trepidation. What will my next teacher be like? Will I be in the same class as my friends? What am I going to do all summer? It's so important to give our kiddos time to reflect on their year – their growth, progress, and the relationships they’ve developed with their classmates. I wanted to give my own students a way to share their favorite things about each other and create an easy but super meaningful parting gift for one another. I’ve used “class compliments” as a holiday gift before, and it was so successful that I decided I’d do it for the end of the year as well. First, my students and I review how to give a good compliment: Then we generate a list of character traits that we can use to compliment each other. After we create our own on chart paper, I pass out these charts for students to take back to their seats. If they’ve thought of more, they can add them to the back. We talk about how a really great compliment is about the person on the INSIDE, rather than the outside. Sure, it’s nice to tell people you like their shoes or you think they’re pretty, but it’s even nicer to comment on character traits. Then, students get to work writing compliments to each and every one of their classmates. It’s a really nice way to spend an afternoon or two – I put the music on in the background and let the kids enjoy the warm fuzzy feelings that come from making others feel good. :) After the students have all finished their compliments, I enlist a few of them to help me collate them. Each student’s compliments get slipped into a manilla envelope with a cover on the front. This is the most labor intensive part, and since doing this, I've thought of an infinitely smarter way and am now kicking myself. So....allow me to save you a lot of time by doing not as I did, but as I thought of later: •Put a stack of blank sheets on each student's desk. •Put an envelope with the student's name on it on each desk. •Have the students rotate throughout the room, writing compliments for each classmate when they sit at his or her desk. •When they are finished writing a compliment, they simply slip it into the labeled envelope, which is already right there. •Then, they move on to another desk. •Slap Blair upside the head for collating these herself like a complete crazy person. *think, Blair, THINK!* Whyyyyyyyy oh whyyyyyyyy don't I think of these things BEFORE doing them the hard way?! Hand them out on the last day of school (no peeking!) for a meaningful gift from the heart for each and every student. Students will cherish their classmates’ words for years to come. This activity is available for free in my TpT store - and last year I got some feedback on it that was so very powerful. I can't imagine the pain this student's family has gone through. But it is incredibly moving to know that his classmates' words were a source of comfort to them during a difficult time. The activity is just a cute way of presenting students' own words. It's the words themselves that hold power and meaning. You don't need to print these pages to do something similar. (In fact, when I first started doing this, I've simply used cut-up scrap paper.) This feedback is such a strong reminder of how very important it is to teach students the power of words - not only that words can hurt, but also that our words can have an incredibly positive impact on the lives of others. This activity is simply one way to help teach that. Click {HERE} to download this freebie from my TpT store! Hang in there, my friends - you are in the home stretch! YOU CAN DO IT! And for those of you already done with school....dang! Nicely done! ;) Thanks so much for stopping by Primary Chalkboard! Have a fab day! Blair Turner Blogger, Curriculum Author, and Paper Designer Blog: BlairTurner.com Paper Goods: BlairTurnerPaper.com Say Hi on Instagram!

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