Funeral Rose
Yesterday my 5 year old said repeatedly how he wished he had never been born because everybody hates him. If you've never heard your child say anything like that...I hope you never do. My heart broke. Sure, he can be just as dramatic as his sisters were at that age, but this was different. This was a hurting little boy that had just had an extremely hard few hours. We were at his great grandpa's funeral, so his heart was already hurting and his emotions (which are always on his sleeve) were causing him to act a little out of sorts. It's hard for anyone to deal with death, it's even harder for kids that can't completely comprehend it yet. In addition, some events transpired that caused some adult reactions that I won't mention. I will say that he was utterly humiliated and completely broken at that point. He had what I can only describe as something close to a panic attack in the middle of his great grandpa's funeral. I took him to a stairwell and Av...
