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Adults - but still children in our minds ?
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 76519" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Barbara...</p><p></p><p>I have had two kids in "settings" I guess you could call them. One...Cory...has been in treatment facilities of some sort since he was 11. He was in wilderness camp for 16 months starting at age 11. Then various group homes and psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment facilities.</p><p></p><p>I did worry about him but learned to mother him along with other various people who became his surrogate parents. To this day he has contact with some of them. </p><p></p><p>Then there was Jamie who went into the Marines and I was forced to learn to let go. There was simply no choice. </p><p></p><p>I still worry, I am forced to..I cant help but worry about my kids. I think worrying about what is happening to a child when out of your sight and in a fairly dangerous situation is natural. However, I dont let that worry overwhelm me completely with the others. I had to learn to put the fear in the back of my mind with Jamie because otherwise I would be paralyzed. He is in much more danger even now than the other two really but I refuse to think about it...lol. After all...he wears a police uniform and lives right outside of Difficult Child! Nope...me dont go there.</p><p></p><p>BBK...I so know what you mean about worrying about your parents though. My dad is quite elderly now. He had traveled to the Boston area the weeks before 9/11 and was due to be coming home right around then. I couldnt reach him when the attacks happened. I didnt know if he had driven up or flown up or took the train. I wasnt sure when he was coming home really. The lines were down. I was panicked. I yelled at him when I finally found him...lol. Told him to never leave home without telling me exactly when he was returning and giving me a number where he could be reached....lmao. He laughed so hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 76519, member: 1514"] Barbara... I have had two kids in "settings" I guess you could call them. One...Cory...has been in treatment facilities of some sort since he was 11. He was in wilderness camp for 16 months starting at age 11. Then various group homes and psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment facilities. I did worry about him but learned to mother him along with other various people who became his surrogate parents. To this day he has contact with some of them. Then there was Jamie who went into the Marines and I was forced to learn to let go. There was simply no choice. I still worry, I am forced to..I cant help but worry about my kids. I think worrying about what is happening to a child when out of your sight and in a fairly dangerous situation is natural. However, I dont let that worry overwhelm me completely with the others. I had to learn to put the fear in the back of my mind with Jamie because otherwise I would be paralyzed. He is in much more danger even now than the other two really but I refuse to think about it...lol. After all...he wears a police uniform and lives right outside of Difficult Child! Nope...me dont go there. BBK...I so know what you mean about worrying about your parents though. My dad is quite elderly now. He had traveled to the Boston area the weeks before 9/11 and was due to be coming home right around then. I couldnt reach him when the attacks happened. I didnt know if he had driven up or flown up or took the train. I wasnt sure when he was coming home really. The lines were down. I was panicked. I yelled at him when I finally found him...lol. Told him to never leave home without telling me exactly when he was returning and giving me a number where he could be reached....lmao. He laughed so hard. [/QUOTE]
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