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I had an emergency placement that everyone wanted to change to a long-term placement. We got along with the bios (mom & grandparents - 1 dad was in prison & 1 dad was out of the picture) & the 2 yo boy was fine. It was the 5 year old who kicked & bit & scratched that I could not handle - the 2 & 3 hour tantrums. When he started going after my 7 yo who is MR, I was done. The 2 yo started the same pattern after his honeymoon period was up also. For the last 2 weeks they were here, J & Q had to be glued to my side - everything I did, they did - everywhere I went, they went. It was horrid for them & for me.
They moved the end of May & I talked to their grandmother last week - they are thriving. The docs changed J's meds & the new foster mom was more insistent that he see his psychiatrist more than once a month. They are both now also in counseling with mom. If mom would just get a job & keep it, they could go home in the next month or so.
It does not keep me from feeling guilty, but it does ease the pain to know that they are being helped better by someone else. KWIM?
Christy
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H - ds - 11 years; K - ad - 3 years[/b]
M - fd - 10, M - fd - 3, B - fs - 8 mo |