In Africa, a normal day of a kid there might not be the same as in America. Child soldiers are becoming and dangerously high problem. Right now the estimated number of child soldiers is 120,000 kids. You may think hey only take boys, but they also take girls. The girls that are taken usually are raped and develop HIV or AIDS. Girls may also have to cook and possibly clean. If the girls do what they are told they may be sent free but also may be executed.
As the saying goes "boys must be boys" symbolizes a young child running around doing what they want and being kids. In Africa, I think the saying might be very different. Many boys come and get captured to join the war. The young boys first kill usually will be their families. After that, there is not a lot of good fortune for them. Usually they will be used for human sheilds, getting shot just so that the older men will live. Target practice, getting shot for better aim of the adults. Also, suicide bombers, running killing many including them self, just so the adults can keep torchering more child soldiers. So should this happen to young boys as young as 7 to come and blow themselves up with no choice.
This shows what tough battles child soldiers take. This shows that boys and girls all around Africa get taken every single day from their villages and families. This should not go on. These boys and girls fight like soldiers and die like children.