Kids…
Posted by abner on April 29, 2009 @ 2:32 am | newsI’ve been busy taking care of a kid who is a bit of a trouble maker, (actually a huge one, this kid’s not even wanted in school anymore. and he’s just in KINDERGARTEN, He’s been suspended for a total of a month and 2 days) any who… I’ve noticed that he seems to be one of those kids who gets EVERYTHING he wants and does WHATEVER he wants, and is never punished by his parents, so I’ve been trying to not let him get use to getting his way around my house. After my recent leg injury he started making comments that started to make a little… murderous, I decided to watch some good ol’ anime to take my mind off of him, i put on Dragon Ball and left the tracks on Japanese with English subs, all of a sudden i start to hear “ching chong ching” I look down to my left where he was sitting and see him laughing. I asked him what he was doing in the least intense killing voice I had and got the response “I’m speaking Chinese.” So I had a talk with his mom about it and this was her response, “It’s not like there’s anything wrong with it.”
So as of today, I’m not longer going to take care of him, and tomorrow morning I’m calling child services.
Out of curiosity though, how would you have responded to him?
Yo, Name is Abner. I'm a mixed kid (obviously) Mostly Mexican a bit Mongol, born In America, typical nerd, not an Otaku. Love my music. Yea... thing's about me aren't very interesting, things that happen around me/to me are.
I perhaps might not have taken as drastic of an approach as you did seeing as it really isn’t the child’s fault but the parent’s for the type of environment he was raised. I do however find it deeply disturbing about the mother’s lack of surprise and care towards some obvious signs of beginning bigotry within the child. It’s almost as if she’s fostering the ignorance.
Did you at any time explain to the child what he was saying was incredibly offensive and wrong? What was his response?
On a side note, how is the leg? I meant to ask you earlier today but never got the chance.
I think it can be hard to maintain patience with any child, especially one who sounds so difficult. I agree with Sophie though, an explanation is really what he needs. It’s obvious the mom won’t be doing it, so hopefully he respects you enough to listen.
What happened to the leg? Did you throw yourself down a flight of stairs after watching the Dragon Ball movie?
Sophi: Yea I have explained to him that what he was doing was wrong and could hurt peoples feelings and make others mad, I’ve had to do it before when I picked him up from school too and commented on God’Fro AKA some guy who just moved here from LA so happens to have ultimate ‘Fro, anywho, he said how much he doesn’t like them cause when his dad was in jail a black guy in jail tried to stab him. I had a much harder time with this situation than the most recent, I’m not calling cause his parents are ignorant, I’m calling because of the constant type of neglect he’s getting, he’s become so spoiled to the point of having incredibly violent tantrums, he pretends to kill people he knows, and not in a semi-playful way, like totally imagining himself covered in someones guts way (not exaggerating), he’s got major problems that are just to dificult to explain without someone actually seeing him, the school noticed this and are trying to convince the mom to get counseling for the kid and she’s refusing to.
Roy: Nah, I just sat on the floor and crossed my legs and watched the knee dislocate, But if I ever did see the Dragon Ball Movie I would have thrown myself down a flight of stairs, preferably the empire state building’s so I can completely forget about it. God, just thinking about that thing makes me want to puke kitten’s crying cause they’re on fire from all the shame/horror/agony of that “film”