Kid 8y killed a frog in the pond. He told, that he wanted to see if she has red blood. I am terrified. I had him assed at psychiatric ward. They Only confirmed ADHD. He received punishments (no screen time), we also apply natural consequences - we are not going to pond and to grandma's rural house any more. I talk to him, we discuss how the animal is hurt, what is death to the animal, what is to kill the animal. (Theme of human death and killing is with us every single day, so we discuss animals). We discuss how frog is the same alive as a horse or cat is. He agrees, but HOW CAN I KNOW, THAT he does understand? How can I get him to really feel, understand and not do this again?? I am lost, I do a lot, but don't see any result.
And this is yet another example of single mothers (note the total lack of mention of any male at all aside from the son) warping their sons. He does something a million other litle boys have and his true crime addict layabout of a mother rushes in with "natural consequences" and psych wards. She'll make him feel like shit for being a normal moid his entire youth and 
when he grows up into a weirdo shutin and or disregards everything she has to say about anything.
everyone saying "this is developmentally normal" is incorrect. kids are supposed to develop empathy in their first few years of life, and psychologists say hurting or killing an animal at ages 6+ should be considered a "cry for help."
also, no, we didn't all "grow up killing animals." this is literally not normal nor should it be normalized.
1. Cute twink
2. What the frick would a psychologist know about anything? The entire field relies on the people they interrogate being entirely ignorant of all psychology. The moment you crack open the DSM and start reading you know what to tell them to keep them at bay. Throw in some good old fashioned "I don't answer questions" and they're defeated.
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When I was a kid, I didn't really understand what worms were, they were different from bugs and animals, and for some reason this bothered me that I couldn't figure out what exactly they were supposed to be. So I decided to look inside the worm by ripping it in half to see if I could figure it out. I remember thinking its insides looked gross. The two halves of the worm wiggled like crazy and I suddenly realized something, "I think I just hurt this thing". I was freaked out by what I did. I threw it on the ground and ran to my mom. I'm glad she didn't act like I was crazy and just told me not to do it again, that's it's mean to hurt things, even creepy things like worms, she told me, and I told her I understood.
I don't think a kid doing this is automatically a serial killer in the making. Maybe most 8 year olds should already know but most 8 years these days suffer from arrested development and helicopter parents, so they learn things later than kids of the past. I also think it depends on how the kid killed the thing and how he reacted after. If the kid just stomped on the frog and then explained why he did it, he's most likely just r-slurred and his mom is way overreacting. If he was like, torturing the frog and then he later goes on to do it again, then yeah it would be time to worry.
edit: reading this mom's profile is a trip, that poor boy has no chance
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At school during first recess we would torture these bugs and try to get them to fight each other
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Those things are fricking evil and deserved it
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WTF IS THAT THING
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Earwig!
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I have never seen one of those before and I hope I never do! AHH
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They can fly.
And as the name implies (in German it's called 'Ohrwurm' lit earworm) it tries to crawl into your ear canal. So when you sleep outside in a chair or something like that they into your ear, sometimes to lay eggs into your ear mucosa.
They are an inspiration for the worms in Beastmaster which create Death Guards:
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That is absolutely horrifying.
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