Parenting

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#AlertToAllParents

"I just read something very disturbing from Twitter.!!!

A 12 year old boy in JSS 3,attempted to kill a fellow student. Why? From JSS 1,this boy had been a stellar student claiming the first position from JSS1 to JSS3.

Then a girl joins them in JSS 3 and upsets the applecart. She beats him in most subjects and his star dims.

One break period, the boy monitors the girl. As soon as she leaves the class he nicks her water bottle from the bag and goes to the science lab. He empties the water bottle and fills it with acid. Returns to the class and replaces the bottle.

Thankfully two other boys had watched him and confronted him. He was made to retrieve the water bottle and empty it's contents. The girl returns from break and makes for her water. The bottle is empty. She raises a ruckus and the boys who deterred the other one from his devilish plan, tell her what happened. She reports and the boys dad is summoned. The dad breaks down at his son's confession. Unfortunately we are not told what the school authorities did.

But I ask, what is it that would make a kid,resort to such extreme means just because he is beaten in class? The first position is no one's birthright. After all, he had beaten other people from the day he got into the school till the girl happened on the scene!

I cannot say he learnt such deviousness from his parents. But it just may be possible that they plied a lot of pressure on him to always come out tops. It's good to encourage our kids, but we must be careful not to inculcate in them a do or die attitude.

Has this boy been exposed to viewing or reading material, which has impacted on him do negatively, so terribly as to make him want to take life?
We as parents need to seriously monitor our kids and what they are exposed to, where they go, who they associate with. The internet is both good and evil. We MUST monitor usage of this too!

This is too extreme for a 12 year old kid!! Of course some on Twitter were advocating Deliverance! I think that is hogwash. That kid needs to see a shrink! He is obviously warped and needs to be set right in the place of his mind!

This is probably one of the most disturbing things I have heard in a long time. If his classmates had not seen and watched him, he could easily have killed another child or injured her gravely! All for what?"