Facts of life

I was told the other day that some kids were calling my goddaughter E some very cruel names that had to do with her appearance and I was thinking to myself, God I’d like to slap those kids silly and oh my poor baby girl but then I realised that this is the way life is, this is the way many kids are, little savages who know just how to wound and will do so when they sense the slightest weakness just like sharks scenting blood, this is why kindergarten and grade school all the way to uni can be such hell. None of which will help E because the fact is in many situations you have to almost be preemptively the bitch, but what a difficult thing to learn when you’re only nine and have always always been completely loved and protected by your family and never needed to suit up in armour.

I still want to slap those thoughtless kids silly.