Children's Myth

TEASING
Molly Bradford was 10 years old, she was very friendly when you got to know her but other than that she was very shy. She loved school but there was just one BIG problem… HER EARS! Molly was in fourth grade and she got teased a ton about her ears because they stuck out so much. She not only got teased by her classmates but by other people in the school. She would go home and cry to her mom all the time, but her mom would just say what every mother would say to her child, “Molly don’t listen to them, you are perfect just the way you are.” But Molly knew otherwise she knew her ears were big and that she was know were near being perfect.
By the time Molly was a sixth grader she thought the teasing had finally stopped, but she was wrong, there was an assembly one day and when Molly walked into the gym she saw her big brother Robert so she waved at him, he saw her and just started laughing as the kid next to his left stuck his hands to his ears and flapped them back and forth like he was trying to resemble Dumbo the elephant. That night when she told her mom she finally realized how much pain this was causing Molly so her mom said, “if you get teased one more time you can have surgery to have them pulled back.” Which nobody should ever have to do to make other people happy.
Sure enough one day in the seventh grade the teacher was giving a lesson up in front of the class when he decided to tease molly in front of everyone. Molly ran out of the class crying, she tried so hard not to let it bother her but when you hear stuff like that from an adult it’s kind of hard to just ignore it. Even though Molly could have went in and gotten surgery she held off and hoped for the best, Molly hoped everything would finally get better.
Eighth grade year came rolling around and Molly was still getting teased. Molly thought long and hard and finally went to her mom and said, “If I don’t get something done about my ears now next year in high school will be torture because everyone will be making fun of me.” So the next day Molly's mom made an appointment for surgery and molly went through with it a couple weeks later in April. The next couple days Molly went back to school all wrapped up in bandages when her class saw her they were stunned that she had gone to such extremes just to be left alone and accepted. Sometimes you just don’t know what some people will do after always being teased. Molly gave a speech about it in her class and by the end of it most of the class was in tears.
Teasing is NEVER a good choice. Nobody is perfect we all have flaws.