This is following up my entry about Kannon's brutality towards his only brother. This is where you give a slight "Aww" but not really care.
I'm brushing my teeth with an intensity in my eyes that says good-bye to plaque and gingivitis. Like a champion sheep shearer I attack with precision and power. As I go around my teeth with one last lap I feel a sudden pain that is all too familiar. Out of the corner of my eye I see Kannon sprint towards our room.
He had thrown a crudely constructed paper airplane into my left eye.
Once again, so it is my nature, I do not retaliate.
Now I'm in my closet preparing for sleep when a couple things happen in almost an instant. Kannon jumped into the closet. He ignited a blow torch. Tried to light my clothing and I on fire. Locked me into, what he thought was, a burning closet.
Once again, so it is my nature, I do not retaliate.
I'm cuddling up into the protective warmth of my bed. I feel a foreign object on my leg. A dead bird? A knife that killed a bird? An Enya CD? What could it be but the paper airplane that penetrated my eye only minutes before. I discard it across the room to be picked up at a later date when... Kannon bursts through the door with a wild gleam in his eye that says "I really like this blow torch" What could he do? He picks up the now humiliating paper airplane. Lights it. And proceeds to do the unthinkable.
He tried to light my bed on fire with me in it.
I awoke dumbstruck.
Once again, so it is my nature, I do not retaliate.
But his excuse to my mother was that he was in total control of the situation. Firm reprimand- I think not.
Now my bed smells of the fresh aroma of a nicely stoked bonfire riddled with bleached copy paper.
thanks Kannon.
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this kid is going to end up in some institution for life w/o parole. haha, no offense of course. He seems so well mannered in school...
ReplyDeletei think you are taking the right approach. without retaliating, he isn't learning to adapt. eventually he will be in a habit and if you retaliate, he won't know what to do. persevere!