Hi
I wanted to take the time to share this with all of you, alot of whom struggle with difficult child's for whom are on the verge of out of home placement, also alot who recently had to place their children in out of home placement due to alot of different things.
I've never shared this before. yet my new job has def brought up alot of past things for me, alot I can handle and alot it was odd to revisit. I now understand whole heartedly my need to do what it is I do and the fact it's taken me these number of years to figure it out.
I was a kid who was in an out of home placement, I was on a pins petition petition brought forth by my mother. I do not want to get too involved, yet suffice it to say I suffered varying degrees of abuse as a young child by the hands of my father, unbeknownst to my mother with whom was divorced from him. I had no diagnosis at the time, I had evaluations yet just came up troubled kid. I was placed in an out of home placement that still exists, a group home. I took the time to look the place up after I fought to have one of my kids at work not go into out of home placement. It is pegged as the group home for the neediest of neediest for the kids with whom are a mess basically and cannot survive in either their home or foster home, kids who have a chance it was quoted in a well read paper here in new york.
So, although we have all seen me stumble a bit here in the beginning lol ok alot, i was that kid and I really am ok now, I will continue to grow.
I just really wanted to share that with all of you. That there are the kids who do make it out, who do go on to lead lives to be happy. Who knows had they done a neuropsychologist on me years ago what I would of had or didn't have. Yet that wasnt' the "way" years ago, it was a quick psychiatrist evaluation and no medications and boom off you go.
Anyway so i'm hoping this gives some of you hope. I"m not able to share this at work to give parents hope i'm afraid they'll lose faith in me lol. but i can def share it with you guys.
((hugs to all)))
I wanted to take the time to share this with all of you, alot of whom struggle with difficult child's for whom are on the verge of out of home placement, also alot who recently had to place their children in out of home placement due to alot of different things.
I've never shared this before. yet my new job has def brought up alot of past things for me, alot I can handle and alot it was odd to revisit. I now understand whole heartedly my need to do what it is I do and the fact it's taken me these number of years to figure it out.
I was a kid who was in an out of home placement, I was on a pins petition petition brought forth by my mother. I do not want to get too involved, yet suffice it to say I suffered varying degrees of abuse as a young child by the hands of my father, unbeknownst to my mother with whom was divorced from him. I had no diagnosis at the time, I had evaluations yet just came up troubled kid. I was placed in an out of home placement that still exists, a group home. I took the time to look the place up after I fought to have one of my kids at work not go into out of home placement. It is pegged as the group home for the neediest of neediest for the kids with whom are a mess basically and cannot survive in either their home or foster home, kids who have a chance it was quoted in a well read paper here in new york.
So, although we have all seen me stumble a bit here in the beginning lol ok alot, i was that kid and I really am ok now, I will continue to grow.
I just really wanted to share that with all of you. That there are the kids who do make it out, who do go on to lead lives to be happy. Who knows had they done a neuropsychologist on me years ago what I would of had or didn't have. Yet that wasnt' the "way" years ago, it was a quick psychiatrist evaluation and no medications and boom off you go.
Anyway so i'm hoping this gives some of you hope. I"m not able to share this at work to give parents hope i'm afraid they'll lose faith in me lol. but i can def share it with you guys.
((hugs to all)))