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Why are kids so cruel? (Posted: Aug 11)
As an adult I have tried to get over the fact the kids are cruel.
I had to deal with alot of hurt as a child from kids that has left me
scared to this day. I know they are things that I should have been able to let go of but somehow clutched on to trying to figure out a way to fix what was said. The things that were said or done to me have shaped me into who I am today, how I perceive things or accept things because of inadequacies I have carried from my childhood.

I wonder if the parents of some of these kids who say such cruel things have any idea what their children say to other kids? I would be appalled if I even thought my child would say anything as remotely cruel and insensitive as what my son's friend said to him this summer when he was back visiting this summer.

I think maybe it has effected me more then what if effected him as it brought back my feelings of inadequacies that I still deal with to this very day.

I clean houses, I sit with elderly people and I do make an honest living working myself to the point of exhaustion where as i am trying to raise my son the best to my ability. Yet, after what one of my son's former friend's said to him,i find myself feeling at the BOTTOM once again, not measuring up and like I will never be able to achieve what it will take to get where I can live comfortable
enough to even buy my son his school supplies! Yet, while my son was "back home" visiting this summer, he and his other friend went to the pool and a mutual friend taunted them as they only had 5.oo for a snack to split between the two of them, laughing they would have to "split a hamburger!" How cruel? How is it that these kids saying something so hurtful that it effects me as a parent knowing I do not have money to hand my son and say, " Have fun with it!"

I write this, because I hurt, I hurt for my son and I hurt for the boy that said such a cruel and insensitive thing that he has no idea what real life is like. So I pray God intervenes and takes away my hurt and shows my son I am doing the best I can and praying that the little boy learns what real life is like to those of us who have no one to hand us what we want rather then what we need.

---carla daniel hall
8/11/08