Ritz Kracka

Ritz Kracka

Monday, March 9, 2015

"RAGE"

I call Tre at his dad's today to see how he is feeling after being sick for the last couple of weeks.  He says that he feels fine, but I sense something else in his voice.  So I ask:

“What’s up?”

“Nothing.”

“Nothing? C’mon, I hear something else, what is it?”

After a bit of back of forth in which he assures me that he does not want to talk about it because he “doesn’t want to” he finally lands on “rage.”

“Rage?” I repeat. 

“Minecraft.” He says. 

“Oh, you’re gaming. “ I say. 

“Mhmm.” He says. 

“And you're raging.”

“Mhhm”

“At your friends.”

“Mhhm.”

“And what are they doing? How are they responding back?” I query.

“Well, they’re just defending themselves.”

“Oh, well, right,” I say to him, in complete understanding.  “I mean, anyone would, right?”

“Mhhm” says Tre.

“I feel you.” I say.

And then I remember my own recent incidents of expressed rage directed AT the child and I say “and you’ve seen me rage, haven’t you?”

HALLOWEEN - 2010 - I can be pretty scary....



Mhhm” says Tre.

“Yep” I offer, “I feel you.”

And I did.  And I do.

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