The other day my husband and I tried telling my son about who “real” friends really are. Our child, who is 10, thought last school year “real” friends help egg you on when you are trying to be the class clown. One of his “friends” in particular actually ratted him out when it got too hot in the principle’s office and basically saved himself. My son, however, felt the full blast of punishment due to him doing most of the class clowinin, thanks to his “friend” ratting him out and a special witness account by the teacher herself. he admitted what he did so we didn’t just believe everybody else…..he told us what he did….
After he felt the sting of the “Law” as we will call it, for showing his ass in class. We as parents, basically told him “real” friends are not going to try and get you into trouble. After taking time out to think about this kid who gave him up like he did (so many times) and pretty much , this boy and none of these other ”friends” come to the house to play, or him going to their house…..no sleep-overs….birthday party invites…and so on , and so on…..I’m sure my son got the picture and a good idea how to go about this new school year. Other kids come over but, strangly enough, they don’t try to get him into trouble, they tryna do good themselves, and /or they invite our son and he them to each other’s parties and houses. Where are the bad asses kids from school….his puppet masters…buddies?
But in his lesson that we were teaching him, I started to wonder about us as adults. Some of my former punk ass friends did me wrong in so many ways…I been lied on, put in mess that had nothing to do with me, used, and so much more….and some of these mofos were at my house for sleep-overs …and I theirs…..Some of them were punk asses long after we stopped with the sleep overs , but some were still coming over to the crib and doing mess then…..Man….so I got thinkin…are we lyin to this child? The world can be a tough place…. Even family these days be trippin…..Just thinkin about this….
Any thoughts?
Take it Easy…..
