When our kids are not ok, we are not ok. I've been experiencing this strange sadness and anger watching my son navigate this last school year. When your child is hurting, feeling left out and sad - it hurts us too! When you are the kind of Mom who tells your child to make sure they are checking on their friend that is going through this a year before, it really ticked me off that the other mom wasn't doing the same when the tables were turned.
It's been crazy to me talking to other parent's though and hearing about how their so many other kids are experiencing similar things & having been dropped like a hot potato by their "friends" too.
Fake friends is what my son has called them this past school year. It's just very disheartening to have watched your child grow up with these boys who you thought were good kids, kind kids.
I couldn't bring myself to go to any graduation parties for any of these kids that I've loved for all these years. Watching my son spiral in depression and staying home all school year. I just couldn't bring myself to go. Especially when he wasn't invited and going himself.
I sit here trying not to wish these kids would experience the kind of lonliness that I've been watching since September, but I really just can't help it.
I was so ready for the school year to be over, but now it's summer & damn social media still shows you what you're not invited too. It's easy to say they're fake friends, but it still hurts to be left out. Helpless is how you feel as a mother because you can't make people be nice and inclusive. Parenting is hard!
