OK Grandma, let me out of here or i'm tellin'!
Posted on 05/27/2006 6:21:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Errr, ummm, ok, you do have a point.
Speaking as the mother of teenagers, there have been many times when I've seriously considered duct-taping their mouths shut!
"Touch my monkey, TOUCH HIM!!!! Feel him... love him..."
Lock the grandmother in a cage.
That's sick!
I guess this grandmother and kid went to the dogs!
That said, something very odd about the whole story.
"But I've never met one of them."
Well, it's too bad you could never have met my dad. He was a social worker and a truly fine man. Somehow he dealt with all the BS and worse he encountered on that job. He was once in the newspaper for naming some poor baby that was found in the trash, alive thank goodness. He was a very faithful man, so I think that's what helped him do that job.
Me, if I had that job I probably wouldn't last a week. I'd be arrested for strangling some miscreant.
My friend is a psychiatrist...she's Russian and she found her mother hanging from a rope when she was 13. She is SO MESSED UP.
Wondering how a 61 year old woman could force a 13 year old boy into a dog kennel? She must be very strong or he is very weak.
"Wondering how a 61 year old woman could force a 13 year old boy into a dog kennel?"
My guess: she convinced him that he had to obey her. After that he cooperated and adjusted. It was people he told that could not go along with it. Otherwise, they had a stable, workable arrangement that allowed her to generate an income that benifitted both of them. Most caretakers would have arrived at a system where the kid would be left alone and he would stay out of trouble. Maybe they had already tried that and it didn't work.
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