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kids can be so mean!

GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I picked up Harrison at school and he's crying because "Grace started a rumor" and everyone had been picking on him and he said he couldn't wait till 3:15 so I'd be there and take him away from the people making fun of him.


Broke my heart. Poor guy. Kids can be so mean!
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    GraySaturday wrote:
    I picked up Harrison at school and he's crying because "Grace started a rumor" and everyone had been picking on him and he said he couldn't wait till 3:15 so I'd be there and take him away from the people making fun of him.


    Broke my heart. Poor guy. Kids can be so mean!

    hell, I'm afraid of kids as an adult.

    seriously, the first day of kindergarden, I was soooo psyched to be in school, make new friends, etc., but then some kid decided that if you replace the first letter of my last name with the letter p it sounds funny (it really doesn't, it doesn't make a word or anything). anyway, after that I was the whipping post for the next 7 years.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    One of life's little truths: whatever generation you were part of as a kid, that was the last one with a shred of decency. :p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    One of life's little truths: whatever generation you were part of as a kid, that was the last one with a shred of decency. :p

    I think kids have always been mean.
  • edvedder913edvedder913 Posts: 1,810
    I think most parents accept that kids just speak their minds. I made a HUGE point of explaining to my son not to hurt people's feelings and to always think before saying something - would you like it if it were said to you? he has always been VERY aware of it and very kind to everyone.

    I just don't think it's drilled in enough at home. Kids have no filter - it's not their fault - some things need to be taught.

    But hell yeah, they can be mean! But so can adults - and we know better ;)
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,193
    yeah kids are mean wait till your kids get to middle school oh boy at that level they are no longer mean but evil ;)...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    josevolution wrote:
    yeah kids are mean wait till your kids get to middle school oh boy at that level they are no longer mean but evil ;)...

    going into middle school/jr high everyday is like being deployed to bagdad.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    i run into kids all the time where i just wish it was acceptable to punch a kid right in the mouth.

    kids are evil.


    a friend and i were out the other day, and some kid about 8 comes up to us and looks right at my friend and says, "your a N word" my friend just laughed at him, then the kid says to him "why are you so fat"

    i just wanted to drop kick the little fucker.

    i told him if he ever used the N word again that i would find out where he lives and kill his mom and dad. that seemed to shut him up.

    kids are brutal.
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  • stylo17stylo17 Posts: 1,001
    damn, kids are rough. they speak their minds that's for sure. and if you ever try and do something back to them, they start crying and saying you're being mean. kids also tend to think they're hot shit, better than everyone else, and until they get out of that stage, you just gotta deal with it.

    edit: I think a lot of times they say mean things cause at that age it can be hard to understand the true meanings of the words they say. also, kids can't be empathetic for shit.
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  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    I've always (for the last 7 years) wanted to have a son named Harrison. But I keep having girls...
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    I have a guy dress up as a Peanut guy in front of my store in the summer. Yea its funny to make fun of him, but only in a harmless way. Well, every year kids are always very very mean. Groups of them knocking him over, last year I caught the kids and told them to stay away from my store or I will drag them to their house and kick their fathers ass.
    LOL, They never came back.
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  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    acoustic guy wrote:
    I have a guy dress up as a Peanut guy in front of my store in the summer.


    just this part right here made me LOL. : ) i dont know why.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    the wolf wrote:
    just this part right here made me LOL. : ) i dont know why.

    Everytime I tell stories about the peanut guy people laugh LOL
    Your not the only one, poor guy get abused.
    Get em a Body Bag Yeeeeeaaaaa!
    Sweep the Leg Johnny.
  • the wolfthe wolf Posts: 7,027
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Everytime I tell stories about the peanut guy people laugh LOL
    Your not the only one, poor guy get abused.

    i hope you pay him well, and not in peanuts. lol
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    they learn it from adults.
    "It's all happening"
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    GraySaturday wrote:
    I picked up Harrison at school and he's crying because "Grace started a rumor" and everyone had been picking on him and he said he couldn't wait till 3:15 so I'd be there and take him away from the people making fun of him.


    Broke my heart. Poor guy. Kids can be so mean!
    :o maybe you should wait for Grace in the morning... and steal her lunch money :) . That's what I'd do... but hey, I'm a bitch :cool:
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  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    Indian Summer wrote:
    they learn it from adults.

    exactly!

    some parents don't set any boundaries for their children. or if they do, those boundaries aren't respected by the parents let alone the kids and the mums and dads give in wayyyy too easily.

    we get parents coming in with their kiddies mostly to buy some candy and some adults! :mad: their kids will be sticking their hands in the boxes of candy, running behind the counter and whatnot.. and what do the parents do? bloody nothing! or maybe quietly say "oh don't go there love, don't do that, come back.." with no fecking authority at all!!

    and at the other end are the folks who plain straight YELL at their offspring. no bloody good either.

    one mum came in with a young girl and when she wouldn't listen to what the mum was telling her (she was like 5 years old anyway) all the mum said was: "oh you're not listening to me at all today. you're really not doing as I tell you.." wtf!? don't TELL the kid that!

    ARGH!!

    anyway, sorry for the rant. my point is, kids need to be told what's okay to do and what's not. firmly, stricktly but fairly.

    it won't completely stop them being mean to each other but then again, I don't think anything will. but it should cut down the straighforward IDIOCITY some kids portray.

    thank you. :p
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    GraySaturday wrote:
    I picked up Harrison at school and he's crying because "Grace started a rumor" and everyone had been picking on him and he said he couldn't wait till 3:15 so I'd be there and take him away from the people making fun of him.


    Broke my heart. Poor guy. Kids can be so mean!

    kids are pussies these days... when i was at school i did 6am till 11pm and had a 14 second lunch break.

    14 seconds to batter 4 geeks and eat their lunch is no mean feat... :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    One of mankind's great shames is not having a cameraman follow Dunk around when he was 7. Just imagine...
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Hinny wrote:
    One of mankind's great shames is not having a cameraman follow Dunk around when he was 7. Just imagine...
    y'know, he probably still goes back to his old school and beats up the geeks. I'ts not too late for that documentary :D
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    y'know, he probably still goes back to his old school and beats up the geeks. I'ts not too late for that documentary :D

    the geeks left the same year as me ;)

    you mean there are more geeks!!! :eek:

    *puts dog-poo on end of a stick*

    back in moment guys!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • myhookmyhook Posts: 284
    Get this, I was taking the garbage out to the curb last night around 7- 7:30. This little kid come riding by on his bike, couldn't of been more than 6 years old. He stops in front of my house and yells out "hey Mr." and then sticks his tongue out at me and gives me the finger. Now I start laughing and the mother of the kid who is walking about 50 feet behind him on her cell phone goes, oh don't mind him he just does that because he thinks it is funny and they kept on going down the block. I was like wtf? How is that parenting?
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • eMMIeMMI Posts: 6,262
    myhook wrote:
    Get this, I was taking the garbage out to the curb last night around 7- 7:30. This little kid come riding by on his bike, couldn't of been more than 6 years old. He stops in front of my house and yells out "hey Mr." and then sticks his tongue out at me and gives me the finger. Now I start laughing and the mother of the kid who is walking about 50 feet behind him on her cell phone goes, oh don't mind him he just does that because he thinks it is funny and they kept on going down the block. I was like wtf? How is that parenting?

    fooking hell. one day I was walking home-home (visiting the ol' family that is. :D) and this kid is riding his bike on the street, which is all good and nice. but then he starts cycling towards me, down this hill (and to me everything's still allright) and then I see a fecking knife in this kid's hand! :eek: he's like 10 years old or something.

    so he rides past me, not looking too threatening but holding the fecking knife and almost falling off his bike. and when he's gotten down the hill, he turns back and starts coming up it again, basically right behind me and I'm looking over my shoulder - scared of this little kid!

    finally I get to this path in a small woods and he won't follow me there.

    what kind of parents let their kids bike around with a knife? it was your everyday kitchen knife too.. ok, fair enough, maybe they didn't know he had it but still.
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  • kh65kh65 Posts: 946
    edvedder913 wrote:
    I think most parents accept that kids just speak their minds. I made a HUGE point of explaining to my son not to hurt people's feelings and to always think before saying something - would you like it if it were said to you? he has always been VERY aware of it and very kind to everyone.

    I just don't think it's drilled in enough at home. Kids have no filter - it's not their fault - some things need to be taught.

    But hell yeah, they can be mean! But so can adults - and we know better ;)

    Like my mother says.. Children are like little animals that need to be trained. The problem isn't the kids it is the parents not doing their job. They want to be the kids friend. Be the PARENT not the friend.
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaalalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Both kids and adults can be mean...removing the kid from this reality won't help him in the long run. Teach him to deal with this Grace character in some way (hopefully just not in a violent or eye-for-an-eye way).

    And no, I don't have kids haha...I hope decides2dream sees this!
  • kh65kh65 Posts: 946
    eMMI wrote:
    fooking hell. one day I was walking home-home (visiting the ol' family that is. :D) and this kid is riding his bike on the street, which is all good and nice. but then he starts cycling towards me, down this hill (and to me everything's still allright) and then I see a fecking knife in this kid's hand! :eek: he's like 10 years old or something.

    so he rides past me, not looking too threatening but holding the fecking knife and almost falling off his bike. and when he's gotten down the hill, he turns back and starts coming up it again, basically right behind me and I'm looking over my shoulder - scared of this little kid!

    finally I get to this path in a small woods and he won't follow me there.

    what kind of parents let their kids bike around with a knife? it was your everyday kitchen knife too.. ok, fair enough, maybe they didn't know he had it but still.

    I hadn't heard that Chuck Manson had kids.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    myhook wrote:
    Get this, I was taking the garbage out to the curb last night around 7- 7:30. This little kid come riding by on his bike, couldn't of been more than 6 years old. He stops in front of my house and yells out "hey Mr." and then sticks his tongue out at me and gives me the finger. Now I start laughing and the mother of the kid who is walking about 50 feet behind him on her cell phone goes, oh don't mind him he just does that because he thinks it is funny and they kept on going down the block. I was like wtf? How is that parenting?
    :D In fairness, considering the state of the world today, I thought you were gonna say the woman got on her cell phone and called her husband to come round and beat you up for laughing at her child :o:D

    sometimes ignoring a kid when they're looking for attention or acting up can be effective... othertimes it can turn them into a serial killer... perhaps she's just trying it out? :o
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    Verona??? it's all surmountable
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  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    All I know is that when I was kid and starting school I was completely SHOCKED at how mean kids were. flash forward 13 years and I couldn't believe how mean COLLEGE kids were.
  • myhookmyhook Posts: 284
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D In fairness, considering the state of the world today, I thought you were gonna say the woman got on her cell phone and called her husband to come round and beat you up for laughing at her child :o:D
    Ha, well that would of made things interesting. And from the looks of his mother I am not sure if she would of called his father or the guy she was sleeping with at the time if you know what I mean. But this woman obviously had no control over her kid anyway. I live on a relatively quiet street but this kid was all over the place. Riding down the middle of the street and without a helmet. Not to mention this kid was on a bike with training wheels. She was clueless.
    Hey, you wouldn't hire a clown to fix a leak in the jon so why do you let these hooligans tear down the biz? YEEAAHHH. I don't care if he is Mr. Notorious BIG, can he croon?
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    myhook wrote:
    Get this, I was taking the garbage out to the curb last night around 7- 7:30. This little kid come riding by on his bike, couldn't of been more than 6 years old. He stops in front of my house and yells out "hey Mr." and then sticks his tongue out at me and gives me the finger. Now I start laughing and the mother of the kid who is walking about 50 feet behind him on her cell phone goes, oh don't mind him he just does that because he thinks it is funny and they kept on going down the block. I was like wtf? How is that parenting?
    Maybe she said that cause you were laughing and she thought you thought it was funny.
  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Kids are such a direct representation of their parents (or caregivers). I know so many people that just send kids to a time out, or to their rooms when something wrong is done. I don't think kids learn anything from that. When Harrison breaks a rule, or says something mean we sit down and we talk about the effects that his actions can have on others, or even himself. He really understands, and he seems to value the fact that he can LEARN why something is wrong, as opposed to just being "punished" and not learn a lesson from it.

    He tends to come to me and ask me why kids at school say certain things that are mean, and we have to talk about how some kids don't think about the things they say. I try to use the kids picking on him to show him how it feels when we say mean things to each other. He really remembers how it felt to get picked on so when I remind him that his unkind words make other people feel that same way, he totally makes that connection.

    I think kids benefit from parents (caregivers) to be constantly on them. I don't mean nagging a kid, but I don't let little things go, because the child is just saying them to get attention or whatever. I keep reinforcing good behavior all the time because the battle to raise an upstanding member of society is a never ending one.
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