There are some truely shit Mothers in this world, the Mum you're sending hate to over Tumblr probably isn't one of them
Trigger warning, child abuse of all kinds
Thereās this kid at work, heās three years old. He comes in everyday, barely dressed, no lunch, hasnāt had breakfast, hasnāt had a bath. When the Teacher on pick up duty arrives at his home in the morning there are often no sober adults there, she reminds them everytime they must have a least one sober adult when she drops him off in the afternoon or else she canāt leave him there. If they actually lisen on that day is pretty hit and miss. He never wants to go home at the end of the day. His Mother has had three children removed from her custody in the past, he has no window in his bedroom because it was smashed months ago and has never been replaced.
Last week he went missing. The police found him wandering the streets alone. He couldnāt tell them his last name, or where he lived so they took him back to the police station expecting a panicked missing child report at any moment. It didnāt come. 8 hours passed and still no call. By some weird coincidence a friend of the boys family happened to walk into the station for another reason and recognized him. The police were able to get an address to take him home. When they arrived the boys Mother immediately starts ripping into him like itās his fault, like a three year old should be able to keep themselves safe. The cops put her in her place but nothing is going to change for this boy. Heās three, he was missing for over 8 hours in the middle of the day and nobody cared enough to pick up a phone and call for help. Just think about that, let the reality sink in.
I once worked with a boy that was intellectually disabled, not because he was born that way, but because as a baby he was left in a room, alone and only interacted with just enough to feed him no and again.
There are children, countless children, that are beaten, abused, neglected, starved, every single day. There are Motherās that sell their five year olds to be raped and abused to fund their drug addiction. I used to know a woman whose Mother put her in a boiling pot of water when she was a baby, her burns were extensive, she lost one eye, all her hair, her ears and even 60 years later her wounds still give her grief. And thereās even worse things done to children than that.
Next time you go to send a anonymous hate message about formula feeding, goldfish crackers or sleep training I want you to think about this shit, about the actual reality of actual child abuse. If goldfish crackers suddenly seem pretty when put beside true abuse itās probably because it is.
When I see the shit sanctimommys bitch about all I can think is how privileged these people must be. They have never been that child that simply didnāt get fed, theyāve never looked into the eyes of a child that has been beaten by the one person in the world they should be able to count on unquestioningly. They clearly been sheltered from the true reality of child abuse. They have no idea what an actual shit Mother looks like. Donāt be that person.
