When Suzy Boliver first saw her eight-year-old daughter’s Christmas list, it broke her heart.
The list included typical asks such as Squishmallows, an Apple Pencil and an iPhone — but at the bottom of the list, the girl asked Santa for “more friends” and “less bullying to me”.
Boliver posted the list in a TikTok video, which has 3.8 million views and 201,300 likes, but admitted she originally wasn’t going to share it.
“I wasn’t going to post this, but you know what … this is being 8 yrs old in 2022 and maybe we should be talking about it,” she wrote in the caption.
The mum said her “heart sank” and people in the comments were heartbroken by it, too.
“I teach elementary school, this breaks my heart,” one person commented.
“We need to do something about bullying. We are taking way too long,” someone else said.
“Makes my heart ache,” another added.
“Makes me not want to even send my kids to public school. So sad,” someone commented.
“This made me cry. My daughter is 8. This would break me,” a parent said.
“This is heart breaking. I feel you. Nothing harder than watching your kids walk through that stuff,” one person commented.
Other parents shared the heart-wrenching things they saw on their own children’s wish lists.
“My 9yo wrote this year ‘To be pretty,’ I have no words for this sadness,” someone shared.
“My 7-year-old brother wrote that he wanted his girlfriend back,” another added.
Some commenters tried to offer solutions.
“You should set up a PO Box so we can send her postcards from friends around the country,” one person suggested.
“I got a 7 yr old that would love to be a pen pal,” another chimed in.
“Go directly to the school. Ask questions. Get to the bottom of this. Be that mama bear,” someone said.
“I’m a teacher and if she is writing about it ask the teacher but also fully move her away from bullies no matter what. Too many lost little lives,” another said.
This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission
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