Editor’s Column: When is the label more important than the contents?

When my kids were small, and now with my grandkids, when one child gets in trouble for something at least one of the others is quick to chime in with, “I wasn’t doing that, Mimi!” or “He/she was doing it first.” That kind of behavior is expected from children under the age of 10. It shouldn’t be accepted, excused or glossed over in anyone older. Just because someone else behaves badly does not give us…