school and the wonderful barrel of crap that goes with it
When I Was growing up, I never really had many problems in school. I was always one of the biggest kids in the class, I grew up on a block with lots of families and was involved in so many different things that I never had to worry about who to hang out with, or what to do during recess.
Aidan is having some serious issues, and I feel totally unequipped to help him. How do you tell a kid, how to deal with the infinite amount of crap that is so worthless and meaningless and will totally go POOF once everyone graduates and realized how much of an infinite amount of crap elementary, middle and high school was. It's all so stupid and I want to tell him to ignore it, but the kid is sitting at lunch alone while kids are picking on him and making fun of him. I can tell there are times when he was telling me about it that he wanted to cry from lonliness, shame, and embarrassment. I want to cry just thinking about it, just talking to him about it, just sitting here writing as a father to a son who is being emotionally abused.
Want to talk about feeling impotent? It took me almost 30 minutes of talking and reasoning with him to even get him to tell me whats wrong, what's going on, what's so obvious to me that is eating away at him. I want to go and stomp on every single one of the little a-holes that pick on him and make him feel like a victim.
That's the biggest problem here really. He's taken so much of it, that I think he's starting to believe he is a victim. God help him if he starts believing it.
We talked about some strategies, and how to navigate through some of the more obvious pitfalls that I can see from the outside. Tonight taught me that I am a good parent in that I knew that there was something inherently wrong, and taught me that my son needs some serious advice and help from his dear old Mom and Dad. For Fae, she's reliving her nightmare all over again.
Time to make that stop.
Still not immune to infantile fart humor
I posted this a while back, but while doing some cleaning up of my blog, I came across it and it cracked me up just as much as it did last year.
Listening…
I've been asked by a few people to share music I've been finding.
Found something great last week - just got it on ITunes - Paolo Nutini
Trying to figure out who this guy sounds like. Haven't had a chance to check out more of his stuff, but he's awesome.