"hate"

I let my son Will read my blog and he had feedback for me about the use of the word hate. This has come up a couple of time lately and I use the word way too much. He is right, as he said, "hate is a bad word, you should have backspaced over it and put don't like." He wasn't impressed when I just edited it with the story about him. I will now no longer use the word hate to describe my feelings toward anything. I am too good for that--and too creative to depend on such an overused (by me) word.