Today, I walked into the kitchen to find my daughter trying to cut her wrist with a plastic spoon. When I asked her why, she said her friend Lucy did that so her parents would buy her pretty things. My daughter and Lucy are both four years old. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out my 12 year old daughter is going through a bit of an "emotional" stage. I got a call from her school saying she was sitting in the corner at recess trying to cut her wrist. With a plastic spoon. FML
Today, I'm so strapped for cash, I had to send my daughter to play with my neighbor's daughter, both are 5, because she gets fed there. She suddenly came home saying they're not friends anymore, bragging how she hit her and she bled while crying. Why? She bought 2 new toys and gave her one, so they have the same. FML
Today, I found my 6 year-old daughter upstairs, lying on the floor with scissors. She was giving, "the carpet a haircut." FML
Today, I cut myself with child-proof scissors. FML
Today, my four-year-old daughter thought it'd be funny to cut my hair while I was sleeping. FML
Today, while I was cutting myself some watermelon, my mom walked in. I could tell she hadn't taken her medication in a while because she freaked out, grabbed the knife, and burst into tears before yelling at me, saying I could have cut myself and bled out. FML
Today, I got a call from my daughter's school saying that she had beat someone up. She's 4. FML
Today, my six year old daughter cut out the stomach area of four of my favorite shirts. When I asked her why she had done so she replied, "So that they fit your tummy better, Mommy." FML
Today, I walked in on my daughter eating a handful of styrofoam packing pellets, because she thought they were Christmas candy. She's fourteen. What's next, eating rocks? FML
Today, I walked in on my 14-year-old daughter holding a lit lighter to the underside of a spoon, which was full of baking powder. She was trying to breathe in the fumes to get high, and later confessed that she thought it's how heroin is made and used. FML
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mcknjack 14
I had no idea kids this young self-harm! It's very disturbing. OP please get your daughter some help quickly. Good luck!
MsConfusedd 27
Society is ****** up. Kids should never have to think like that. Don't let your daughter play with that girl anymore and make sure her parents are told to get their shit together.
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Comments (70)
HortonThelephant 15
Luuucyy! You have some splainin' to do..
katie_xoxo3 16
I actually think this is the funniest comment ever
thatnucca 36
Destructive friendship at the age though... Your daughter needs help, and Lucy too... Bring that to her parents' attention too...
150493x 29
It's actually scary what young children can pick up. Hopefully talking to her will make her see that doing this isn't going to get her what she wants.
NYKTim 5
What has this world come too? Kids shouldn't be this spoiled. OP you need to teach your kid how to deal with these types of situations
TyT63 12
I don't think you can even cut someone with a plastic spoon, atleast she didn't use a knife
HisHarleyQuinn 14
Yes, because the point of the FML was that she didn't succeed in harming herself. No, it's the thought behind it. If all the parents do is laugh it off because no harm was done, there is the chance that she will try again with something other than a plastic spoon. And then she might actually hurt herself.
negb 30
Like the poster above me, it isn't about weather she succeed or not but that she tried to hurt herself. I have accidentally cut myself with the "soft" side of a plastic knife so technically if she used enough strength, she probably could but with the spoon.
RedPillSucks 33
Sometimes psychiatrists say to "ignore bad behavior". Not saying whether it's the right thing to do or not, but I wonder if the child didn't get any result from this if that would be sufficient, since she's so young. Just throwing that out there for discussion. Not saying there's anything wrong with talking to her about it, though.
Otaku31 19
A friend of mine has a cousin who used to hold her breath and make herself pass out if she didn't get her way. Her family thought it was adorable. -_-
SamCat 21
My neighbor's daughter used to do the same. Except the mom would run to shove her face in the cold water of the shower. Yeah, my mom made me stay the hell away from that household.
XxxT3rr4xxX 25
canIt has been scientifically proven that you can't kill yourself from holding your breath you ultimately just pass out as you stated, though I would get that child checked with a psychiatric evaluation just to be on the safe side. Who knows it could be a couping mechanism
speckledots 29
My brother used to do that when he was little. My dad just let him. He'd do it til he passed out. After a couple times he realized it wouldn't get him What he wanted so he stopped doing it. Some things kids have to learn on their own. Cutting however, that's not something to mess with.
airhead2015 18
It's messed up how little kids are getting more screwed up nowadays. My little 8 year old sister would threaten to kill herself (when she was like 4-5). I don't even remember knowing that you could kill yourself until I was like 10 maybe. Not 4 or 5...
AliceAristocrat 12
I used to tell my parents that I was going to kill myself when I was like 5 or 6 (not in a threatening way). Honestly though, I don't think most kids know what they're saying. I sure didn't. It was just something I said and my parents weren't really bothered by it too much. I'm 20 now and still alive so yeah....kids just say things that they couldn't possibly understand the meaning of because kids are weird.
DedicatedNova 13
Does plastic hurt!? That's also beyond stupid.
Ashamed_Sister 60
This is one of the few FMLs which is not funny in anyway. It’s just terribly said that a girl that young would harm herself in order to get some pretty things. She shouldn’t see her friend again.
AliceAristocrat 12
I wouldn't go so far as to prevent them from seeing each other. They're 4 years old chances are they don't even know that what they're doing looks like they're trying to slit their wrists, it probably doesn't even register with them so honestly, the parents just need to tell their kids not to do that and it should all be good.
DoomedGemini 38
Yes but the op can't do anything about Lucy. It's not his child, so if the parents reward this behavior their child needs to be kept away from her or else she will keep learning bad behaviors.
Enslaved 38
What kind of pretty things does Lucy want? Diamonds?
Blink182ismylife 4
Whenever i hear the same Lucy, i always think of the Beatles song! :P