Oh dear....
Teapot is floored... he's floored because he read my 101 Things About Me and saw that I wrote, I like sex! He couldn't believe that I would actually put that out there. I had to laugh because he's such a prude... I mean it's not like I gave out details or anything and gee I'd be thought really weird if I didn't like sex! And that's all I'm saying about that.
Oh my....
I had a comment to me on #56. the person who made the comment is a local so don't expect to read the comment. We had a very long conversation about the word career. You see my reader said that in her view that what I do in raising my children and my spinning and knitting and weaving, is very much a career. That a career person is someone who loves very much what they do. But when I wrote #56 I was thinking of career in a very different context.... as in someone who gives up everything they love to follow a career path in order to be successful... or at least successful by most people's standard in this social age. I see people who go to work each day that are so driven by finding success in accolades or money that they have forgotten to stop and smell the roses. Those are the career people I'm talking about... I'm not one because if there is anything I believe it is that we should all stop and smell the roses.
Yeah so that's it about "career".
@$#$^%^*^&@!##!!#%$
Daughter #2 is being bullied. I lay awake half of last night thinking horrible thoughts about children who are the culprits of my Daughter's anxiety. This is not the first time. These same kids have been the basis for much anxiety in Daughter #2's life for several years. They have not physically intimidated her but they have been verbally bullying her on a regular basis for quite a while now. This year it has escalated to a new high and we are quite fed up.
Daughter #2 is a fairly sensitive soul and is moved to tears by pictures of dead animals (needless to say she has a very bad reaction every time we butcher a lamb). When these boys, who have been bullying her, started to to call her names in grade 4 we did what most parents do and told her to ignore it since they were jackasses and it would probably stop after a while. WRONG! They have continued to make her feel bad every chance they get and unfortunately this year it has gotten way out of hand.
Daughter #2 has had for several years a difficult time making friends.... or I should say keeping friends. She has over the years made many good friends but they have always had fathers who have been transferred in the end and so have moved away to other locals leaving Daughter #2 high and dry. Finally a couple of years ago Daughter #2 won a trip to Victoria for a historical fair because her history display was such a good one. One of her class mates also won. It was during their trip to Victoria that they became best chums.
About two weeks ago Daughter #2 came home complaining about a rumour circulating at school about her and her friend being lesbians. This did not sit well and for the last few weeks she has been fighting this rumour to the best of her ability. Yesterday I knew something was wrong when she came through the door very upset with red eyes. She had taken the bus home and these two boys who have been bugging her since grade 4 had proceeded to let everyone know on the bus that they thought that Daughter #2 was indeed gay. Daughter #2 was mortified...and really, really hurt by the fact that they would not only say such a thing about her but they would say it in such a public place and for all to hear.
Teapot and I are disgusted with this whole affair. The Principal has been notified not only on this but on previous accasions of bullying too. Daughter #2 has been goaded and provoked and bugged for far too long and we are at the point where its time to put an end to this. Before these two boyos have been called into the office and have had a talking to about name calling etc... I lay awake and all I could do last night was steam. I have never been so close to wanting to do something bad in all my life. The two boys in question are known for being complete shits.
Daughter #2 has been offered an opportunity to have all kids involved in the incident and all parents of said kids to get together where she can confront these kids face to face with the Principal and Teapot and I. She is thinking about this option. Let me tell you it is very hard for a kid of 13 years who is a sensitive and quiet gal to face such a situation and I'm not sure she will have the guts to go through with it. I'm not sure what I want for her. I just wish that she had some peace.... peace of mind and peace to go back and forth to school without being bugged by dickheads.
I am sorry to use such language but I'll be honest the language is mild to what I am feeling about the two boys that are making my daughter's life purely miserable.
Right now life sucks around here.... but I do hope, dear readers, that your weekend is proving to be better than ours is turning out.
1 comment:
nothing makes me more furious than bullying. nothing. i can only hope that karma bites them in the asses. then again they are probably already miserable in their horrible small little lives if picking on ___ is what makes them happy. what ignorant tools. my advice is to punch them in the face, yet visualise hitting the back of their heads. you hit harder when you do that. but hey that's just me. i say to my kids if they are a victim of bullying or witness someone else being bullied and they resort to violence, they might be in trouble at school but they would never be in trouble at home for it.
barbara coloroso has an interesting view point on stopping bullying, that it's the other kids not directly involved that have the power to stop it by not condoning or tolerating it. peer pressure, sort of. i don't know how that can be encouraged though. my heart goes out to her, and you. i hope a solution presents itself in the quickest most effective way possible.
and it further pisses me off that we still live in a world where kids are still saying someone is gay as an INSULT. geezus that makes me want to bust heads.
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