Bullies, you suck.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Being a parent is hands down the most challenging, yet rewarding job there is. Last night, we dealt with the more challenging part.

Bullies.(Insert "Gunpowder and Lead" by Miranda Lambert here).

My oldest daughter is a freshman in high school. Oh yeah, the wonder years. You couldn't pay me to go back and relive those days. So many awkward, drama filled days. I've told her many times, you'll be lucky to still have a handful of them you actually consider "friends" when your an adult. Most of these people you are in high school with, won't matter in your life. The best years of your life are yet to come. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

She is a fairly thin girl, blonde hair, blue eyes. Very beautiful girl, inside and out. She's funny. She's caring. She's my baby dammit.

I know, I'm her Mother, and what mother doesn't think their child is the bees knees? I get it.

If she were in a roomful of kids and you were to ask me to guess who was being bullied, I would never pick her. Not in a million years.

She's had issues this year, with older girls, calling her names. Calling her ugly. Jealousy right? They are just taking out their own insecurities on my baby. She knew it. She dealt with it. She moved on.

Now, people are bullying her because of her weight. Her small frame. They are calling her anorexic. Who knows what they are actually saying to her because she couldn't get out anything else out besides "they say I'm anorexic" between her sobs.

Crying. Sobbing.

They broke her down.

She is being bullied because she is thin. Something she has zero control over.

She was hysterical last night. She actually sent me a text to come up there and talk to her about it. Thankfully.

She needs me. She wants me to make it all better.

She doesn't want to go to school.

I'm so flipping mad. I want to rip these kids apart. I want to reveal every single dang flaw these kids have. I'm livid.

I know that you can't right a wrong with a wrong, but gawd I really want to. I really, really, want to.

So last night, I just was there. I sat with her in her room while she cried. I told her how these people do not deserve her tears. They do not deserve anything from her. I told her they would know what this feels like in one point in their life. I told her that there are people bullied for being fat, for being different, for no good reason at all and it all really sucks. I told her how beautiful she really is. I told her we would get through this.
 
I am full fledged Momma Bear right now and I am pissed.

So to you bullies out there, screw you.

You will experience karma. I am sure of it. When you do, when your shedding your tears, I hope you think of my daughter. I hope you think of the horrible way you have made her feel. I hope you feel this pain. I hope it hurts. I hope your heart breaks into a million pieces just like mine did  last night.

Jerk.

“What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?”
― Lynette Mather

“When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.”
― Chris Colfer