Is it true that not all kids are cruel?

Just like with adults, there are nice kids and cruel kids. I have met both type. It’s never accurate to group everyone into one category.

Of course ALL children are not cruel.

There are millions of really nice kids who go out of their way to be good, kind and helpful to others. They are quite happy to help their parents, relations, other school friends, elderly, the list goes on and on.

My 3 children were always happy to help others and although they are grown up with kids of their own now they still help others whenever they can and they are raising their children to do the same.

On the other side of the coin some kids are totally evil and go out of their way to cause trouble, bully their schoolmates and the vast majority of these end up the criminals in their adulthood.

No matter how good the parents are some children are simply totally evil and they are only happy when they are doing evil deeds.

Define cruel

Absolutely true! I think some are intentionally mean or cruel, some may come off that way but only because it’s their defense mechanism and they feel horrible about it later (like calling someone a name), and yet others are sensitive little souls who wouldn’t hurt anyone intentionally, ever.

Children don’t have adult filters so I suppose their candor may be perceived as cruelty by some. Like saying ‘Wow you’re fat!’

I was never an intentionally cruel child but I have seen abused children who abused others, as that was normal in their home environment.

Not all anybody are any one thing.

When you word the question as “is it true,” that implies (to me) that you think or thought the opposite. Did you think that all children were cruel? That’s kind of a broad brush.

Not all kids. But I believe the saying is more about children being honest and not always aware of what is appropriate to say out loud. So if you ask most kids for an honest opinion, expect to get exactly that. Children learn to lie later to spare feelings once they understand that certain truths should be avoided.
But that’s not real cruelty. If all children were truly cruel then everyone on the planet would be cruel and that is not the case. There are good people and bad people.

I think it’s important to understand what cruel means to you.

When I hear the word cruel I associate it with torture or something barbaric. Almost like Disney villains eg. the Evil Queen.

But kids being cruel comes in a range of contexts. Kids can be cruel by being brutally honest. By being savage, by being uncaring, etc.

To answer your question. No. Not all Kids are cruel. Some are very honest. Some are uncaring. Unkind. I strongly disagree with the statement that kids are cruel.

And to make kids less “cruel” we as adults, guardians, and parents, must teach them how to behave. the difference between right and wrong. Also, kids being “cruel” maybe because they are exposed to “cruelty” at home, school, surroundings, etc.

I remember reading “A monster calls” by Patrick Ness and I remember reading how he said, “Humans are not entirely bad or entirely good. Most are a mixture of both”. Something like that.

Found it:
There’s not always a good guy, Conor O’Malley, nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.