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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 451376" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Exhaustion aside, your post was a great one! Sounds like Katie is learning some much needed and long overdue budgeting skills and the kids are benefiting. I do hope she looks into why your granddaughter is not growing. Size 7 for 4 straight years sounds very off to me too. I know from your posts re: Katie that this isn't going to be easy to help her finally grow up and learn life skills, but these are positive baby steps for her and I do hope for all involved that these lessons stick. I'm also glad that M didn't surface which I know must make visits far more enjoyable for you. I think its good for Katie to develop these relationships with you all in healthy ways without M present. She needs to learn what life without M around looks like, learn that she can make good choices, can manage finances (especially low income ones) to provide for herself and the kids, that her family is there for her when she's doing right and are supportive. I bet her day is very different when alone with M. The contrast I'm somehow betting is very different between days spent with him and days spent with you all. I hope that it continues this way. It's a marathon, not a sprint. She's made poor choices and become adept at hiding her poor choices. These are great steps for her towards making good choices and perhaps finally finding a way to feel pride in herself. One can hope that pride will grow to a point she realizes she can consistently make right choices and even better, perhaps her pride will grow to where M will no longer be acceptable to her as a fixture in her life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 451376, member: 4264"] Exhaustion aside, your post was a great one! Sounds like Katie is learning some much needed and long overdue budgeting skills and the kids are benefiting. I do hope she looks into why your granddaughter is not growing. Size 7 for 4 straight years sounds very off to me too. I know from your posts re: Katie that this isn't going to be easy to help her finally grow up and learn life skills, but these are positive baby steps for her and I do hope for all involved that these lessons stick. I'm also glad that M didn't surface which I know must make visits far more enjoyable for you. I think its good for Katie to develop these relationships with you all in healthy ways without M present. She needs to learn what life without M around looks like, learn that she can make good choices, can manage finances (especially low income ones) to provide for herself and the kids, that her family is there for her when she's doing right and are supportive. I bet her day is very different when alone with M. The contrast I'm somehow betting is very different between days spent with him and days spent with you all. I hope that it continues this way. It's a marathon, not a sprint. She's made poor choices and become adept at hiding her poor choices. These are great steps for her towards making good choices and perhaps finally finding a way to feel pride in herself. One can hope that pride will grow to a point she realizes she can consistently make right choices and even better, perhaps her pride will grow to where M will no longer be acceptable to her as a fixture in her life. [/QUOTE]
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