Iāve done quite a bit of research into this in the past (i.e. reading other peopleās research).
Itās quite healthy for children to be exposed to news from a young age, to have an understanding of the world we live in, warts and all.
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Great piece boy
Earlier than that. My mam was minding my kids one day and she brought the two of them aged 4 and 6 to a funeral Mass. She saw nowt wrong with it but I ended up answering questions non stop for 12 months from the youngest. Every time he would hear of someone dying all he would want to know was what age were that manās kids when he diedā¦ Orā¦ What age would I be if you died at the same age as him
Tormented he was
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When I was about five me oulā fella took me to see his Aunt Peg out in Milltown. Da told me that Aunt Peg was dying but that I was not to mention it.
As soon as I was introduced to Aunt Peg I asked her, bold as brass, āwhen are you going to die?ā
Me oulā fella reacted like Father Ted when Dougal asked Len Brennan āhowās the son?ā
I think I understood it then, though Aunt Peg saw the humour in it.
Then I saw the Challenger disaster on the telly and I understood what death was even more.
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Iāve had a lot of that too. Itās when they start to ask are you insured that you really want to worryā¦
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Or when they start asking about the fair deal scheme .
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Youāre very exercised today. Bit odd seeing as youāve previous for objectifying women.
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Awful. Hard to understand why the messages continued after the poor chap committed suicide.
Jesus Iām seething after reading that. Misfortunate young fella. His parents did, you would think, everything right to help him got him counselling, moved schools, put him in touch with fr Jason who is clearly a good sort. Fuck me that is sickening to read
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It wasnāt explained tbh. It was just a few prayers for a deceased colleague who passed away in tragic circumstances and was left at that. Iād imagine it was the same everywhere. Principals would know their audience and how to put it or 90% would.
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School hasnāt done enough there I donāt think. Never heard of that kind of business with toilets. That should be for movies.
Seemed a great lad. Kids can be awful cunts.
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Thatās heartbreaking
I presume they just mean he didnāt know he was bullied?
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Sorry, I posted the wrong extract. - edited now
Ya thatās fairly shocking.
Our place text out to say they were doing it after school before a staff meeting. I actually thought having the little first class students lined up at the funeral was a bit much but I suppose the expert advice is not to hide them from it and let them achieve some type of āclosureā
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Shocking sad.
Bullies should be named and shamed. Iām sure they will grow from it and correct themselves, or not, but as it is they get away scot free
Reading about another murder of a child by his parents in England. Horrific. A broken society.