Dear Dish It, I Can't Keep My Opinions to Myself

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Dear Dish-It,
I keep getting into arguments at school and now they're getting a bit more serious. Lots of people are my mates, but I just can't seem to keep my own opinion to myself. What should I do?
beauty1566

Dear beauty1566,
There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but there's something wrong if your opinions are just plain mean. Everyone's entitled to think what they want, but it's one thing to THINK something bad about someone and another thing to SAY it to their face or even behind their back cuz they'll eventually hear about your trash talk. You may have a lot of friends at school, but if you keep broadcasting your offensive opinions to everyone left, right and center, then you won't be left with any friends by winter vacation. So what should you do? It's simple - just like your granny says, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

So gotta burnin' question? Need some love directions? Thinkin' about stuff like teen suicide, depression, sex, low self-esteem, boyfriends, girlfriends, losing old friends, bullying or peer pressure but are too scared to ask the 'rents? Don't be scared to Dish-It. Just remember, if you hang out in chat with other Kidzworld members who know you by your nick, you might wanna use a secret nick when you write in. That way no one will ever know it's you. Remember though, Dish-It gets tons of letters a day, so she can't answer 'em all. But keep checkin' the column cuz chances are, she'll be answering something very similar to your question soon. Thanks! Got some words of wisdom you wanna share? We'll dish them up too.

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