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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 660670" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I agree with the psychologist, relative or not. She sounds dangerous.</p><p></p><p>I know I've posted this story before, but it deserves another posting.</p><p></p><p>A friend of mine took in foster children. She took in an 8 year old who liked fire. He burned t he house down. As they stood outside, while the fire department tried for naught to put out t he fire, the kid turned to her and said, "Hey, I'm hungry. Can we go to McDonalds?" She said she then went for his throat and had to be held back. She did not get into trouble, although she could have if she had actually touched him.</p><p></p><p>Seriously sick. I ran into his social worker at a dog park years later and she told me, without us acknowledging for sure who he is, that he is still the same...clueless, reckless, no conscience, headed for big trouble, in residential treatment. In two years he was to turn eighteen. He's way over that now and probably in prison.</p><p></p><p>These types of kids, without consciences, full of anger and trauma, should not be in a family. They act first and don't care if people get hurt. This boy had no reaction to the mother crying that she had lost everything precious. He just stood there, with no remorse. When it was brought up to him (the fire) when he was with his social worker and age 15, he laughed about it and said, "Yeah, that was something else, wasn't it?"</p><p></p><p>It is very hard to admit for many people, mostly who never had a child like this, but not all children are able to be saved and love does not cure all. Just like there are adults who do the unthinkable, such as murder for thrills, there are children who are developing into that adult, and by the teen years they are hard to turn around and should not, in my opinion, be treated while living at home or live at home at all--ever-- at the expense of the other children. You have no idea what this girl has done to your kids to make them so afraid of her.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't take her back either and your mother is probably too old to grab her and hold her if necessary. She would need a young, strong, alert and healthy young person to keep an eye on her at all times. You really should not let her out of your sight because she MAY burn the house down.</p><p></p><p>My friends were put up in a hotel while the house was being redone and t he boy was instantly removed. Like us, after our bad experience with an older adopted child, this family also stopped doing foster care. These k ids c ome with issues and your stepdaughter has lived a life much like a foster child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 660670, member: 1550"] I agree with the psychologist, relative or not. She sounds dangerous. I know I've posted this story before, but it deserves another posting. A friend of mine took in foster children. She took in an 8 year old who liked fire. He burned t he house down. As they stood outside, while the fire department tried for naught to put out t he fire, the kid turned to her and said, "Hey, I'm hungry. Can we go to McDonalds?" She said she then went for his throat and had to be held back. She did not get into trouble, although she could have if she had actually touched him. Seriously sick. I ran into his social worker at a dog park years later and she told me, without us acknowledging for sure who he is, that he is still the same...clueless, reckless, no conscience, headed for big trouble, in residential treatment. In two years he was to turn eighteen. He's way over that now and probably in prison. These types of kids, without consciences, full of anger and trauma, should not be in a family. They act first and don't care if people get hurt. This boy had no reaction to the mother crying that she had lost everything precious. He just stood there, with no remorse. When it was brought up to him (the fire) when he was with his social worker and age 15, he laughed about it and said, "Yeah, that was something else, wasn't it?" It is very hard to admit for many people, mostly who never had a child like this, but not all children are able to be saved and love does not cure all. Just like there are adults who do the unthinkable, such as murder for thrills, there are children who are developing into that adult, and by the teen years they are hard to turn around and should not, in my opinion, be treated while living at home or live at home at all--ever-- at the expense of the other children. You have no idea what this girl has done to your kids to make them so afraid of her. I wouldn't take her back either and your mother is probably too old to grab her and hold her if necessary. She would need a young, strong, alert and healthy young person to keep an eye on her at all times. You really should not let her out of your sight because she MAY burn the house down. My friends were put up in a hotel while the house was being redone and t he boy was instantly removed. Like us, after our bad experience with an older adopted child, this family also stopped doing foster care. These k ids c ome with issues and your stepdaughter has lived a life much like a foster child. [/QUOTE]
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