The Broken Home

Once upon a time there lived a boy who grew up in a broken home. Just like all the other broken homes out there, the boy was faced with a deep confusion of why deep inside himself he felt so unhappy. But he wasn't alone, for he did have a little sister, a mommy and a daddy. But everyday he would wake up to see his mommy and daddy fighting.

After each fight, daddy would storm off and stay away for weeks at a time. One fight, mommy even tried hit daddy with a metal poll and threw rocks at him. The boy couldn't believe his eyes because mommy and daddy always told the boy not to fight with his sister. So the boy walked around with this chip on his shoulder.

He'd go off to school and everything would be OK. He did well in school, and even got good grades. But every time he got picked on by someone at the school the boy would lose it. Time and time again he would get sent to the principal's office for fighting. Not just tousling and wrestling, but actual fist fights where blood would be involved.

The kids all started to say, "don't mess with that boy, he's going to cry and then get really angry -and then he's going to hurt you bad." Some of the teachers tried to sit the boy down and talk to him, but the same thing always happened. He would stop crying, calm down and be OK again. But all that needed to happen was for him to be picked on again, and once again he would lose it.

One day there was one of those kids who had been held back a few grades and was older than all the rest of the kids. All the kids in the school were afraid of the guy because he was a lot bigger than the rest. Even the boy tried to avoid him. But one day the guy decided to hassle our troubled boy. A fight broke out! All of the kids and the teacher of the class were trying to hold on to the boy. Teacher scrammed, "You better run home now, before he starts crying!" So the older boy ran off campus and headed threw the park. But the boy say him and at that point broke away from all the students and his favorite teacher.

The boy ran as fast as he could with tears in his eyes shouting, "You just couldn't leave me alone! Could you?" And he caught up with the older boy who harassed him then started pounding him until his nose bleed. His baby sister caught up to the fight and screamed, "Not again! Why did you have to make him bleed? I know he's bigger than you, but you're stronger. Why did you do it again?" So the boy stopped, and the older kid ran home crying.

So now the principal of the school got worried telling the parents, "We suspended him for fighting, we've tried paddling him and nothing works. You're gonna have to do something or he's going to have to find another school." So the parents told the boy, "The principal and teacher knows that you only fought because that boy has picked on just about everyone in the school. But you can just go off like that and hurt him so badly. We've only taught you to defend yourself, not to go off in this way!"

The boy knew that he couldn't get into any more fights or he wouldn't be able to go to his school and be with all his friends anymore. So he did not know what else to do. So the boy ran away crying thinking he did nothing wrong, and thinking that everybody must hate him because he never bothers anybody but still gets in trouble. So he left the school that day, went under an overpass and just cried. His teacher knew he had ran off. It so happened to be lunch time and she came after him. So she found the boy and took him to Mc Donald's to try and cheer him up.

It worked, the boy was so happy that his teacher cared. But she told the boy if anyone hurt him to tell a teacher and try not to fight back if teachers were around. So he agreed.

The moral of this story was that of a broken home. The boys parents had been going threw a divorce since before he was born. Thus the fights and arguments. They only stayed together because of he being in the womb at the time. But after his birth, the parents decided to go threw with the divorce. So the boy not knowing any of this thought he was the reason why his parents never stopped fighting. He also carried with him this feeling of sadness and anger that he could not understand at his age being only a 3rd grader.

I hope people reading this can see how great the importance of a child having both parents really is. If it took two to create the child then it should take two to raise it. Because of the psychological effect it could have for the child to see it's parents not getting along as man and wife.

This was based on a true story.



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KRahmaan
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