Eight Year Old Hailed As A Hero
This is part of what’s wrong in our society, and I’m sure some people are going to blast me for this but here it goes…
An eight year old boy is being honored as a hero, complete with being on TV, a news press, and a plaque. What he did was call 911 when his mother started having seizures. He also got his younger siblings dressed and ready to go to the hospital and called family members to let them know what happened. Dispatchers said he was calm and gave critical information.
Good boy! He did a great job, but a hero? The mom started having these seizures after his younger sibling was born a few years ago. The parents wisely had him practice on a broken phone if it should happen while he was alone with mom during one of these episodes. She has had many seizures over the years and he has had to do this more times than anyone can count.
I’m guessing that an 8 year old is in about third grade. By third grade or the age of 8 I would expect the boy to remember a few important numbers, but the public and press act like he just walked on water. Do they think most kids his age are retarded or something? If he had done this so many times before I would expect him to be calm and not panic. I would expect him to do just what he was trained to do.
Kids are not as dumb as most people think and he did what he was supposed to do, I don’t believe it was above and beyond. His behavior should be considered average.
Thank the boy? Yes! Treat the boy? Yes! However being hailed as a hero for doing what is expected of anyone his age is ridiculous. The article I read on this, ended with his mom showing off to the press that he knew her cell phone number. I would expect this from any first grader, but that’s just my opinion.
Mom Charged With Withholding Sons Chemotherapy
So once again we have a case where a parent plays Russian roulette with her child’s life. A little boy has non hodgkins lymphoma which the doctor say is highly curable. He get treated and goes into remission, however he must still continue chemo for up to a year after that to make sure the cancer won’t return and is completely gone.
This poor child’s parents are not together and the boy was in moms custody. After the doctor found out that mom had not been picking up the chemo from the pharmacy, he called the father to tell him the boy was sick again and in the hospital. The father had no idea what was going on and the mom was arrested and charged.
Dad has the boy now and says he is very ill and only has a 10% chance of making it.
I don’t even know where to begin with this story. Why would a mother do that to her own child? I realize that chemo is very difficult especially for a child, but if it’s a choice between her child dying and feeling ill for a while, I’ll take the ill child. What a shame.