Well, I've met my match.March 3, 2014 by

I'll be honest, I have never met a kid I didn't find lovable in some way. That is, until now.

My family has been involved with this child the full six years of his life. We know him. The problem is, from seemingly no source, he's endlessly violent. I have never seen a child that acted in such a way as this, and while I do know that it most likely is my error for disliking a child when I should be supporting him, I'm rather appalled.

First of all, I have voiced my other concerns about him far before his mean streak ever came into effect. He's six and he doesn't know his shapes or colors. He's had just as much education as anyone else. This and the fact that through tests he lacks basic cognitive abilities, I became worried and asked whether or not this was normal to someone I thought was qualified to answer me. The answer what that, no, it was not normal. Onto the real abnormalities.

A few weeks ago he tried to choke a toddler to death. Not as in he grabbed and wrung him a little, as in he sat on it's chest and cut off it's airways, soundlessly choking it until people noticed. The toddler is alright, but when asked of what happened he put his hands at an X about his throat. The real kicker is how my mother and his grandfather reacted.

I wasn't in the room, but I heard the whole thing. The boy says that he choked him because he called him fat. The two year old. The very young two year old. You know what my mom does? She tells him that, yes, it isn't his fault, because anyone who calls another person fat has it coming. I am not exaggerating, and I am BARELY paraphrasing.

Oh, and this isn't the first time. About a year ago, he nearly beat a baby girl to death with a toy train. After he was told what a baby's soft spot was. After both of these incidents he was immediately let off the hook.

I apologize for being ignorant in this level of childcare. I seem to only be good with more nicely-spirited children, a flaw if I am going to be a kindergarten teacher. Perhaps I am shedding this boy in too negative a light, but this is a day after he literally tried to pull another boy's eye out of it's socket. I can honestly say I do not know what to do, or what this is stemming from. Do any of you have experience with children like this, or have heard of similar behavior?

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