This story absolutely breaks my heart.

Three Canadian boys, ages 7 - 9 years old, stripped a 6-year-old boy naked and pushed him into a lake where he drowned.

In Canada, nothing can be done to prosecute the boys, since they’re all under 12 — in my opinion a gross injustice. I’m not saying to throw them in maximum security prison, but really, nothing? No punishment at all? They will get away with it and in my opinion, since most bullies have parents that are also bullies, this will be the first of a long string of abuse and violence they will exhibit throughout their lives without proper intervention.

The boy, Adam Keeper, drowned because he didn’t know how to swim. He was only 6 years old and now these bullies will feel no consequences for what they did.

What makes a child so evil? What turns children into cold blooded murderers?

We are well past the days of telling children to simply “suck it up” when teased and tormented by other kids. You cannot “suck it up” when you’re dealing with sociopathic children. Even in America, we need much stiffer laws regarding bullies and the management of bullies. In my opinion, bullies should be removed from their homes as any child of neglect would be as it directly reflects a parents ability to manage and nurture their child. Parents have an obligation to teach their child empathy and to make sure their anger is directed properly. Plus, bullying can manifest itself from other emotional problems the child is suffering, but it is never appropriate to displace those emotional deviancies on other children. I have to wonder if these bullies are not being abused themselves.

Or, are there children that are just born “bad”?

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This week, I got my first Choice in Child Care cheque.

Choice in Childcare–the Conservative New Canadian Government’s bribe monthly child-care subsidy of $100.

The payment is not taxed directly, but will be taxed as income at tax time; so it’s not actually $100. I put it in our savings account, and am now trying to decide what to do with it.

Frances’s daycare costs over $700 per month. When she was an infant, it was over $1100.?‚? We’ve already budgeted for that, so there’s not much point in putting the money towards it.

I don’t want to spend the money, since we don’t get to keep all of it.

So it’s sitting in our savings account. Most likely, around January, we’ll put it into my RRSP (registered retirement savings plan, equivalent to a 401k I think). Then we won’t have to pay tax on it, because the tax deduction will be equivalent to the income.

So my family isn’t calling it the Choice in Child Care Allowance.

We’re calling it Andrea’s Pension Fund.

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