It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
Somehow it seems that all parents are certain that they themselves were victims of abuse in school and that they will not allow this to happen to their children. Even though children can also be the cruelest group imaginable - especially the cutest of them.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
Kids are very cruel to each other.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?