Things that are pissing me off.
1. My body. I think I’m spotting. It better be because my period is coming in the next 24 hours or else I am going to be very pissed.
2. People who think that a kid backtalking is SOHORRIBLEOHMYGODCANYOUBELIEVETHEYWOULDDOTHAT?? And these people are attempting to become foster parents.
3. People who are so offended by the mention of things like sexual abuse that they need to leave the room. And these people are attempting to become foster parents.
4. Children who refuse to do their schoolwork, and instead lay in their bed. All day. And do not care if you take away things because “they are not doing that stupid work no matter what you say.”
5. The (slang word for penis) daddies. Who are still in first place.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
Does this mean you’re doing fp training? You go girl!!
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Some of the people I met in foster parent training shouldn’t be allowed around children.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I was reading “Three Little Words” last night and it reminded me of some of the people in my foster parent training, and how some people of those people shouldn’t be allowed around children (even their own–the one I am thinking of in particular made her daughter stand in such a way as to give her acute calf pain as punishment) and how shocked I was at how little others seemed to have thought about what they were getting into. We watched a video in which a 5 yo called his foster mom a b***h when she asked him to come down to dinner. The whole atmosphere in the room changed after that, and people who had talked about foster/adopting slightly older kids all of a sudden were only interested in toddlers and babies. I mean, it isn’t like a 5yo calling someone bad names is a good thing, but it doesn’t seem particularly shocking or high on the spectrum of bad potential behavior you could get. Did these people seriously do absolutely no reading or research before they started?
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
AMEN.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Or maybe, these people never had kids of their own. Or maybe they only remember how wonderful they were when they were little. Or maybe, they believe that love solves everything. Or maybe they don’t get the depth of pain these kids have. Or the crap they’ve experienced. Or maybe they just fell for the “Adoption Stories” fiction on TV.
Life isn’t always pretty. And it definitely doesn’t always live up to our expectations.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I have a problem with Blondie not wanting to do her homework. I’ve tried pleading, explaining, rewarding and punishing to no avail.
I liken it to this: I wouldn’t want to eat a plate full of cockroaches. Even if you pleaded, told me they were good for me, rewarded or punished me, I wouldn’t do it. You’d just have to put something else on my plate. So I’m trying to make homework as fun as possible, which would be like taking the cockroaches off my plate and putting dessert on there instead. You may have already tried something like that, but I think the only answer for us is to make the homework itself as much fun as possible.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I think there is a lot of stuff you can’t imagine, but you later deal with.
Prior to having children, I used to babysit my cousin’s daughter. When she was 18 months old, she used to shriek. It drove me nuts. I said “Elizabeth, in our house we do not shriek!” She ran away laughing and shrieking.
Which is what I should have done.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 am
mmmm. people leaving the room cuz they cannot deal with the idea of sexual abuse. I suggest that it is people like this that make the world a much less safe place for children (and others), as they would much rather not hear about it, not believe it, not intervene, pretend it doesn’t exist, than listen, believe and act.
Anyways, I believe it, and the backtalking, and the no homework. Sorry about it. It would all drive me crazy too.
Oh!!! The Buglegs arrived today! The Dao was SO excited to get a package, and had to rip it open. They were so beautifully packaged! He had to try on both pair right away and kept saying “wow!” “wooowww” “WOW”!” LOL! I’ll try to get a good pic that isn’t xrated.
Good thing his legs aren’t any fatter or they wouldn’t fit at all! Pudgorama! I hope he gets taller!