This week my 11-year-old son revealed to me through casual conversation that another student at his middle school cursed him out. He says the kid called him a m----- f----- and a b---h. I wasn't all that shocked by what I heard because both he and my elementary school-aged daughter say they hear kids cursing at school almost daily. How sad is that? I was angered, however, by the level of disrespect the other kid showed my son. My son is a low-key, laid back, reserved kind of child. He doesn't ruffle other people's feathers; neither does he let much get under his skin. So I was immediately ticked off to hear him tell me as an aside that this other child had said these hateful things to him. I asked him what he did when the boy said it, and he said nothing. He just ignored him. I asked him how it made him feel, he said it didn't matter. I was glad he didn't react to that kind of foolishness, but I was also a bit flustered that he couldn't. I say &q
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