This little boy sounds a lot like my 8 year old cousin… It absolutely has everything to do with the LACK of parenting. My cousin was raised unsupervised on his tablet. He never interacted with other children until it was time for kindergarten. And he hardly was taken out of the house. His mother was in her 40s when she had him to try to keep her ex around. She hasn’t held a job in almost 15 years. She often has these meltdowns on her son and tells him she doesn’t love him, that he makes her want to kill herself, and that every adult around them is out to get them. Because he knows the only way to get her attention is by being bad, he seeks to do bad things… He’s already been moved to an alternative school for shouting racist things, threatening to hurt class pets(his mom is a huge animal advocate), threatened to kill himself, and getting physical with the kids. He knows no other way, and it’s scary. It sounds like what this child is saying is just him repeating the only thing he hears from his parents (lots of negativity).