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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ohio
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ohio
Posts: 941
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Hi Dana! Congratulation's on the engagement! Tayla and Joan both had some very good sound advice for you. How is she around her mom? Does her mom pay any attention to her? Is it just you and not her mom who she wants attention from? I babysat a little girl who was 8 -9 yrs. old at the time. Her mom and Dad went back and forth.. back and forth with each other. This child.. well, shall I now say 18 yr. old now...started smoking weed, taking unprescribed meds, drinking. She ALWAYS calls me for advice. She won't go to her mom or dad(The dad never married this girl's mom) but who wants to spend time with now. Well, she hates both her mom and dad. I am trying to get her to get some therapy and to go to AA NA.meetings. she doesn't think there's a problem, yet tells me everything she does, like she's proud or something?? She has been in strict homes for children, juvenile places... in and out... in and out. I don't know, now that she just turned 18. I know when she stayed with me a few months back, I had no drinking, no smoking(in my house) she smoked outside. cigarettes only, no weed. Well, she stayed for a while, helped with the house work, etc. in other words, she was being a good kid.CRAVING ATTENTION! I remember when she got to be 11 she was a latch key kid(A child who comes home, uses key to get in, no one around),as her mom is a RN and then when I got off from my other job to go on ahead to watch her.. it was attention.. atention.. atention!!! As I said eariler in this post,I am scared for her well being. her mom did try family councel, but to no avail!! she has stolen $$$ out of her mom's purse and has told me about it!! So, these are the in between stages in a childs life! I say DEMAND therapy now. the girl didn't want it,(when she was younger, her mom, who by the way.. is a good friend of mine.) her mom let her have her way just so she's outta her hair!! I could go on and on about this, that.. It starts in the home.. Just remember that. Wishing you the best, Dana, love~Desi
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