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I get being angry at the 19 year-old...but pulling the 8 year old out of bed at 3:00 a.m. to clean because your house is trashed? Questionable parenting in my mind. But maybe I'm just crazy.
Re: XP from High Risk: Pulling an 8 yo out of bed to clean at 3 a.m.?
The worst part about reading this post was that it hit home for me. My dad was a psycho, abusive man to say the least and this is EXACTLY along the lines of what he would do to us from a young age (I mean not even in kindergarten yet young age). Ugh.
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In other words...maybe she let this situation happen.
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I'm wondering if she's on bedrest who is supervising these children. Sure, the 19 year old doesn't need constant supervision, but an 8 year old is still a child who can hurt himself and can't be expected to make responsible decisions for himself. And the 2 year old probably isn't staying in one place, unless she's keeping them in a pack and play all day. I hope for their sake there is another care giver in the house. If not, I can only guess the 19 year old is watching the 8 year old and potentially the 2 year old while mom is stuck upstairs.
Getting the kids up at 3am reminds me of Annie where the abusive caretaker made all the kids get up before the crack of dawn just to clean. It's not unreasonable to expect children to be responsible and pick up after themselves, but they are kids, even the 19 year old. They need their sleep. Plus they probably thought they could get away with not cleaning if she doesn't come downstairs.
That was my first thought, too. It's not the kids' fault or responsibility to now run the household. Sure a 19 year old can pitch in and help out, but that stood out as a bigger issue to me..
Not only that, but um, didn't SHE raise these kids? So wouldn't that mean that she did a crappy job parenting them if they don't even know how to clean up after themselves? I mean I know this wouldn't be acceptable in our house growing up, my parents would never have allowed it.
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