Mommy Loves Your Bullies [updated] -

I need to say something ugly out loud.

I’m sorry I can’t protect you from everything. I’m sorry I let them scrape up your knees and your pride. I’m sorry that the only way to build a backbone is to break a heart first. mommy loves your bullies

Last Tuesday, you cried because three boys called your new backpack "baby trash." You asked me, “Why do they hate me?” I need to say something ugly out loud

Because I love the boy you are becoming. And that boy? He has your bullies to thank. I’m sorry that the only way to build

Not in the way you think. I don’t send them cookies. I don’t high-five their parents at soccer practice. But when you came home with dirt on your new sneakers and that hollow look in your eyes—the one that says, “They got me again” —a very small, very dark part of my chest exhaled.

— Mom Comments are disabled. I know how this sounds.