Kids suck. They are mean. They think mean things. They do mean things. They say mean things. And they just, well, suck donkey balls.
Especially when a target is one of my children.
Right now, it’s my stepson.
He’s different, yes. Most definitely. In many obvious and not so obvious ways. Trust me, I realize this. I have to live with him.
He and I don’t always get along. At all. In fact, he is one of the major causes of my eye roll.
Hell, if I was a kid, I probably would get annoyed by him, same as the other kids. I would probably go out of my way to avoid him.
But never. EVER. Would I have been mean to him.
Or anyone like him.
I may have had my thoughts but they never would have escaped my lips.
I was raised better than that.
I hope I’m raising my children better than that.
He does and says strange things. Maybe out of insecurity and for attention? Maybe because he can’t control it? Maybe he is just fricking weird? Maybe he’s going to be the next Robin Williams or Jim Carrey and you will all be kissing his dust.
WHATEVER.
Leave him the fuck alone.
This kid has so many phobias, problems, insecurities and quirks that who the heck are you, with your stupid looking hair cut or those yellow snaggle teeth, or that lisp, or you with the horrible grades or you who has a scar down your face or you with the strange walk and screechy voice…
Or YOU…
To say a word?
He has every right to be on that 8th grade football team. Out of 94 kids, I can almost guarantee he isn’t the only one who sucks or is a little off. At least he’s there, every single day. While so many other kids go home, hole up in their rooms and play video games.
He has a right to go to school and learn, smile, tick, leap, crawl, suck at football, act stupid and immature like the rest of the kids. Without being made to wish he never left his bedroom.
Shame on these children for being so insecure around kids who are different that they try to bring them down to their level.
Shame on the parents for not teaching and preaching tolerance.
If someone bugs you…ignore them.
If they get in your face, ask them to move.
If there is a problem, go to a teacher and tell them.
There is no reason to be nasty, rude, mean, intimidating or threatening.
If the tables were turned and the intimidators were the ones being intimidated, would anyone come to their rescue? Or would the rest of the kids stand around laughing while the adults turned a blind eye? Because obviously, this is the modern day meaning of “do unto others”, right?
Well, this is unacceptable.
It WILL be taken care of.
No one is allowed to bully my children.
Except for me.
HAHAHHAA! Got a good laugh out of the last line.
This is one of the reasons I’m *considering* homeschooling the toddler later. Hey, if you can’t fight it, just shelter. 😉
PS-I have *issues* w/one of my stepdaughters that cause a lot of what you’ve written above. One day, I’m going to charge her for all the Botox I’m going to need for these wrinkles.
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I absolutely agree with you and I’m so sorry that your stepson is going through this. I think it starts at the park when kids are in preschool and snowballs, with parents being afraid to make their kids be respectful to everybody.
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Thank you for not being quiet about it and for standing up for your child. I’m sure that when he is older he will be grateful for it, if he isn’t already.
I was terrorized by this monster of a girl and her posse when I was a kid. From 3rd to 7th grade. And my mom received verbal beatdowns from the girl’s Momzilla countless times. The school finally intervened and we had to have group counseling sessions. But the damage was done. Turned out it was a jealousy issue because she thought I was pretty and didn’t like it because that was HER place. When all along I felt fat and ugly.
Ugh. Being a kid is difficult. You’re being a good mom.
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Yes, kids can be HORRIBLE. I was bullied a bit in grade 7 and it’s awful. How do kids turn so mean? I think it must have something to do with how they were raised. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. In grade 7, this mean mean girl Melva beat me up, up against a locker, because I didn’t run fast enough in relay in track and field. I went home, cried to my parents, and we had a meeting with her, the school, and a police officer. Well, surprise surprise, she totally wanted to be my BF after that. No thanks.
Kids are SO cruel anymore. I am making it a HUGE point to make sure my children are never ever bullies. I can’t stand asshole kids like that!
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Sorry you are having to deal with all of this. It’s disgusting & unacceptable. We are going through this to a point in 1st grade, I know it’s only going to get worse & that terrifies me!
Bratchild is nine and she already has one friend that’s a mean girl. This little girl picks on people for liking different things and tries to tell them how they should be. Her mom is a biatch too,
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Our school is so out front about bullying. Mind is only in Kindergarten, but I’m hoping it is for real and not for show. I can’t stand it when someone picks on someone that is weaker, smaller, bigger, smarter, dumber, differenter… It just makes me angry. And it is ALL about their raisin’ (as we would say down here in the South).
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Oh how I detest bullies!!
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yep.
go get ’em, mama bear.
it’s what we do.