theres a missing page where her dad apologizes for her... probably hard for a stubborn little girl (what is she, 8?) to apologize after her dad did it in front of her. i sure wouldnt back when i was small & dumb
Thank you. It is a relief to see that someone here remembers what we were like as kids. The lack of sympathy for her is astonishing. I guess everyone else was an angel as a child lol.
I'm sorry but that is complete bs, I was no angel when I was a child, I was actually a pretty good demon child, but my parents ALWAYS made me own up to my mistakes and apologize for them. So her dad/stepdad apologizing in her place is only feeding her superiority complex and teaching her that she can do whatever the fuck she wants without having to actually face any consecuences.
People really need to stop justifying asshole kids with "They're just kids", they might be kids, but that doesn't excuse them from bad behavior or consecuences, at least not if you want them to be decent human beings, It is phrases like those or "boys will be boys" that make people believe their actions are inmediatly justified.
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This was the conversation thread.
1. "probably hard for a stubborn little girl (what is she, 8?) to apologize after her dad did it in front of her. i sure wouldn't back when i was small & dumb."
2. "I'm glad someone here remembers what we were like as kids. The lack of sympathy for her is astonishing."
To clarify:
1. Acknowledging that children are human beings with personalities (stubborn) who are young (8 years old maybe but obviously still in grade school) and inexperienced in how to properly relate with others (dumb) is not done in an effort to "justify asshole kids". It's reading comprehension really because it's all there in the manga for us to read. Kii Kanna-sensei is very good at making realistic characters we can relate to, which is why we're all responding so strongly to the story.
2. To show sympathy for her for making a very human error in an appropriately childish way (because she's a child)--and facing so many posters that felt she *deserved* to be slapped* is not done in an effort to "justify asshole kids".
I don't think she's an asshole. She's a smart kid going through a disruptive family situation and she's not handling it well. She is making mistakes. As you yourself pointed out, it's up the adults involved to correct her. (Maybe you should rant about the asshole parent?) To show understanding and sympathy is not to justify: it's being humane.
I'm on the team that's glad she got slapped— however, this is not what I'm going to argue about, let just agree that we have different opinions on the matter.
However, I completly agree with Andreita.
I was a horrible child. But my parent would never let me say something so hurtful to someone else without apologising. If I didn't apologise, I was get reprimanded. They most certainly would not brush it off as "she's Young so it's okay". Children need to be taught. We might disagree in the methods, but she needs to know right from wrong.
If Mio apologised for hitting her, she can apologise for saying those things.
It's unfair and hypocrical to reprimand one child for doing something wrong, and not the other.
I agree with you: If there was one person who truly irritated me in this situation, it was the stepfather. That type of behaviour should be unacceptable, and he should have properly disciplined her.
Completly agree, and couldn't have said it better myself.
Of course she's just a child, but children have to be taught. He step father should have disciplined her, or else he's raising a person who is not suited for society (trying to find the right word here but, somthing along the lines of "having a bad charater").
Children need to be taught to say "sorry". It's so integral to their personalities and growth.
THE FUCK??? SHE DIDNT APOLOGISE???