FHBB's 2025 Word of the Year: Dignity

Jennie Jordan, Engagement Manager
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How should we treat people? For a long time, I was taught people should be treated with RESPECT. I needed to respect my family, my teachers and adults in general. I knew I needed to be kind and to speak with deference, but I didn’t know why. I didn’t understand why I should be required to do these things, but I did it because it felt right. As I’ve aged and matured, I found the word all the grownups should have taught me instead.

Dignity.

One word made a difference in understanding why I should practice kindness and understanding with every person whether they are my parent, my child, or a stranger.

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