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Sunday, March 13, 2005
child abuse...
read this book called 'a child called it' by dave pertez when i went to borders just now. was recommanded by my upper secondary english teacher ms chia. finised reading it within like 2 hours there. felt saddened by the storyline.
story is about a boy called david who used to have a nice and caring mother whom he loved very much. however, his mum changed and become violent and treated him like a slave, starving him and making him doing all the chores in the house while his brothers are still well-treated by her. his father left them afterwards since he can't stand staying at home being controlled by her. a family no more to him. david was too scared to speak up and suffered many bruises and even a stab from his mum. only till his teachers noticed that he is a problem kid ( he stole food from others to keep alive and was outcasted by all the other kids, wearing the same old stinky shirt and having many bruises on him ) reported to the police and saved him from her mother.
a very touching and saddening story. how could a parent bear to hurt and torture her own child. an innocent life maybe gone or even hurt a child deeply to why he is treated like that. does parents who really hate her child has to vent all her anger on him and treat him as an IT and not for who is he. its unfair for the child to go through this ordeal and do not understand the reason behind it other than being brainwashed that he misbehaved and he is a bad boy. how many children is actually undergoing child abuse now with such temperant parents and casting a shadow in their growing up process.
for parents. what could have caused the extreme change in attitute towards a child. for david's case, it is due to his mother indulging in alcohol and some unknown reasons. thinking realistically, there may be an obvious reason why child abuse takes place even in the world today: stress. being stressful at work may make a parent being frustrated and vent their unhappiness on their child by beating their child up when they make small minor mistakes or just being cruel to them in order to make themselves happy and relax. but is this fair to the child? the poor and innocent child? definitely not.
for other lucky ones like us, we should be grateful with what we have now and stop complaining about our parents having high expectations on us and their continuous naggings. for me, i think its time that i stop defying them and saying bad stuff about them stressing me to get good grades like my brother as they actually hope that i have a bright future and can fulfil my own wishes and become what i want. they showed support, concern and respect, disapproving me from doing certain things which is to protect me from harm. many teenagers do not realise this point. they disobeyed their parents and went ahead with what they wanted to do. though parents may sometimes be wrong in their judgement, all they wanted is for us to be good and safe. that is why i have decided to postpone my dream of learning scuba diving till a later age when they feel that i am independent enough to take care of myself and be able to fulful my own dreams though i really wanted to dive underwater and know more about the marine life. anything related to water is always what i wanted to do. but for my own good and parents' dispproval, it is sometimes good to put off dreams for a while and wait till time is ripe instead of making your parents worried. and at least they did not mentally or physically torture us till the stage of not able to forgive them since what they are doing is actually for a good cause.
a very nice and inspiring story. emotionally overwhelmed after reading this. think going to complete reading the sequels if i have the time to do so and if you are interested the sequels are "the lost boy" and "the man called dave". so from now, lets just be grateful with what we have now and be more understanding of parents. =)
7:11 PM
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