Recently I took a break from reading AN AWFUL LOT OF PARANORMAL (laughling) .... to read something way different - enter - Lionel Shriver and We Need to Talk about Kevin!
Now Kevin is one seriously deranged child, and, like most people, I never saw that ending coming until it hit me a smack in the face!
The book is written as a series of letters from wife to ex husband after their son Kevin kills a few or 12 people in his school!
I believe it's the Catholic Church who say 'give me a child until the age of 5 and I'll show you the man' or words to that effect! This being the case, then Kevin really just never had a hope!
If, as some say, a child can hear you even when it's growing in the womb, then Kevin spent 9 months listening to his father wittering on to his mother about the fact that 'she should watch what she ate - after all - was she not thinking of their child - did she wish to harm it even at this (ahem pre-birth) stage? .... or ..... 'how could you dance around the living room like that - have you no thought for the safety of our unborn child?' ..... and so on and so forth.
Then, after birth, there were all those 'negative vibes' from his mother - because yes, we're also told that children are very perceptive as babies and pick up on that stuff too!
Like I said ..... the child never had a hope of growing up normal, did he?
Anyway - it made for interesting reading, and in many ways, was quite thought provoking for those of us bringing up children.
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