November 20, 2010
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Kid’s do the craziest things
I spoke to a Foster Parent group last night. (I loved it!) It brought back some memories of past experiences with foster kids. One of our foster/adopted kids was traveling with me in the van. We were coming back from visiting extended family. She was about 14 or 15 at the time and was sitting in the passenger seat of the van. (Whenever we go we have to take 2 vans and my wife was driving the van behind us with the rest of the kids.) I wasn’t paying attention to what she was doing, until it occurred to me, holding a piece of paper on the window for a long time wasn’t normal. I said, “let me see what you’ve written on that paper.” She turned it around and it said, “HELP ME.” Talk about going into panic. I can laugh now but I didn’t then.
What’s the goofiest thing your kids did, or you did.
Comments (7)
I don’t have kids, just fur kids, so I can’t answer that. I can only imagine the panic you were in. I wonder what would’ve happened though had someone taken her sign/not seriously!
@ShadesOfAnnie - I suspect we would of been working this out in the back of a police car and I would have had a greater story -lol
Hehe, good enough she did not write SOS.
Happy Weekend. Cheers!
Our oldest told our youth group that we had a daughter/the boys a sister that got kidnapped while we were in Wal-mart and that her pic was on a milk carton. He decribed what she was wearing, teared up, etc. They believed him. I had to tell them over and over he wasn’t ‘pulling their leg’. lol
It’s funny about the paper in the window. We’ve had a lot of experience with foster children through other family members. What scares me is the fact they can lie and have people believing them and you could end up in jail for something you didn’t do! It has it’s good times more than bad. I remember a foster child my daughter had for 2 years was there when a Grandma had passed away and saw the paramedics and policeman taking her out to the ambulance. Later he told us, ‘They took great grandma away and didn’t even put her in handcuffs!!’
@mcbery - It’s sad we live in a world that is presuming parents guilty until they prove themselves innocent. I’ve talked to teachers and people who influence children and attempted to get a balance out there. People hear bullying, child abuse and neglect on TV and go after the juggler vain of parents. That’s not the only answer.
@stephensmustang - Sometimes you wonder – What is going on in your head?