CheerioLounge said:
Boy! You really do run a full-service operation over there, don't ya!?
Yeah...I guess so. I'm just very actively involved in my community/neighborhood. They are involved in the raising of mine too. When I'm ready to pop her head off DD goes over there for an adttitude adjustment. It keeps us sane, and the kids behaving......MOST of the time. Some of our local young ladies are developing some horrible habits, and us moms are crackin down on the little heathens before they get out of hand
Anyway, the kid has issues and her issues are my friends weakness, she can't deal with her. She has a lot on her plate with her dad living there and having cancer and running back and forth for treatments, and this child is her deceased sisters youngun, who passed two years ago, and the kid just clams up, and will NOT listen, or discuss her issues. They need an outsider that she respects to talk with her sometimes, and then she's fine for a while..until the next episode. I feel for them. The girl is down here half the time. She came down the other day for help with Algebra homework. We raise each others kids around here to a large degree.

It's just our way of life I 'spose. She just needs some levelling sometimes to get her butt back on track and get all the griping out of her system, and where my friend hasn't the patience to listen, I offer my ears, and then tell the kid to straighten her butt up or face the consequences, then I usually give her a hug, offer her to come down here for a break when she needs it rather than being a jerk to her mom/aunt, and come home.

She's usally good for at least a few weeks.

Kids are so crazy

Sometimes they need someone ther than parents to give them a clue. Nothing wrong with that
