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janiedoe said:
Good morning, Rene.
I agree.


I wonder what his home life is like? I hope he has a good support system.
I owned a small daycare when my own kids were small. Some of my kids got government funded tuition and meals. There were 5 brothers from 3 to 7 that attended one year. After meeting their parents I felt so sorry for them. I got very attached to them. One of the oldest boys told another child that they better eat all their lunch because they "might not eat again today". A few months later their parents got in trouble for selling their food stamps. Their father and grandfather both ended up in prison for armed robbery and drugs. I have no idea what happened to the kids. They would be late 30s to early 40s now.
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It's stories like that, that make a person realize they are fortunate to have what they have.
 
janiedoe said:
Good morning, Rene.
I agree.


I wonder what his home life is like? I hope he has a good support system.
I owned a small daycare when my own kids were small. Some of my kids got government funded tuition and meals. There were 5 brothers from 3 to 7 that attended one year. After meeting their parents I felt so sorry for them. I got very attached to them. One of the oldest boys told another child that they better eat all their lunch because they "might not eat again today". A few months later their parents got in trouble for selling their food stamps. Their father and grandfather both ended up in prison for armed robbery and drugs. I have no idea what happened to the kids. They would be late 30s to early 40s now.
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That’s so sad!!!!!!!
 
janiedoe said:
Good morning, Rene.
I agree.


I wonder what his home life is like? I hope he has a good support system.
I owned a small daycare when my own kids were small. Some of my kids got government funded tuition and meals. There were 5 brothers from 3 to 7 that attended one year. After meeting their parents I felt so sorry for them. I got very attached to them. One of the oldest boys told another child that they better eat all their lunch because they "might not eat again today". A few months later their parents got in trouble for selling their food stamps. Their father and grandfather both ended up in prison for armed robbery and drugs. I have no idea what happened to the kids. They would be late 30s to early 40s now.
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No child should ever have to grow up in those kind of circumstances! That is just wrong in so many ways!
 
Bsmac said:
No child should ever have to grow up in those kind of circumstances! That is just wrong in so many ways!
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I had a foster child for a little while. She was 15 when she came to live with me. She was a few years older than my youngest son. It did not work out. I felt very guilty for giving up on her, but she was at a point where she needed to help/change herself a little and she wasn't willing. My son might have been in trouble if he had spent too much time with her. (She crawled into bed with him one morning and that was the last straw.)
She was very bad about stealing and shop lifting, doing drugs and other inappropriate behavior. She wouldn't work with me, her counselors, or her teachers. I spent a lot of time going to meetings.
Her mother was dying of liver failure. I met her through work and that's how I came to take her in. Her mom was a prostitute and drug addicted.
I wish her mother had given her up when she was younger. Last I heard of the teen, she had three children before she was 20. She kept in touch with my daughter for a while but mostly to ask for money. I hope her children are better off.
 

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