a child called it

[tylersmum]

has anyone read this it is a true stroy written by the boy that lived it.
i must say although a compulsive read it was also very very disturbing to hear what happens to some children at the hands of their own mother. it is written by david/dave pelzer and i highley reccommend it but i will warn you i cried all the way through it and had to get his other two follow up books and i loved all three of them

I read the series a few years ago. Almost defiesbelief that people are so cruel doesn't it?

yes it does i could not treat a dog like the way she treated her son

didn't she treat the dog better though. How anyone survived that is beyond any belief
he went on to become a very successful pilot though didn't he?

I remember seeing Dave Pelzer in an interview once and despite his truly awful start in life he is an incredibly nice person.

my biggest disbelief was how no one else saw what was happening and that meant nothing was done to help till alot later on in his life, but i can not believe how 'normal' he seems to be after the experiences he has been through

isn't he really softly spoke as well- not that that has any relevance...
he's also tried to be friends with his mother!!!

it must take alot of courage and to have a son his self is amazing because i do not think if i went through that i could raise a child well

When I read this book all I could think is "why isn't the father doing something to stop this? How can anybody stand by and watch their child be mistreated like this?"

god dont shoot me down for this- i read it about 4 years ago and one day was reading it and watching an american chat show on living (trashy i know)
they said that therewas no evidence of this ever happening and that as a child he had always had a very overactive imagination, they had family members on and old teachers who agreed this.
im not saying it was true what was on the progamme, but i couldnt get into the book, or its subsequent ones after that.
there is a book along similar lines called " the kid" written by an english man from surrey who had an appaling childhood, that was unputdownable and along the same lines as the dave pelzer books.

I read it - I cried and cried it was so disturbing.

I just got that book 'the kid' haven't got round to starting it yet but I know it is going to be hard to put it down once I do start! Its just so hard to imagine that people could actually do that to their own child.

I have just read Sickened, about a mother with MBP, which I found very disturbing,
have read a child called it, and the other two, I cried too