...and dropped into the ocean.

[hobish]

I thought this phrase was pretty amusing.

Saturday i stayed with my Godson from early morning until about dinner time. He is a handfull to say the least, but i love the kid. He's probably as close as i will ever get to having kids. Saturday was not a good day. Saturday was a meltdown on top of a meltdown on top of a meltdown kind of day for him - for about two and a half hours. It wasn't the fun day either one of us had thought we were going to have.

I heard Godson's soon-to-be Stepdad on the phone with Godson's mom saying:

Whatever maternal instinct hobgoblinish might have had, Godson crumpled up into a little ball, ripped to shreds, doused in gasoline, set on fire, encased in concrete and dropped into the ocean.


I dunno why, but that whole statement gives me a good giggle. I think i like soon-to-be Stepdad.

[LadyDyani]

And made your ovaries cringe in terror?

[Pixie]

And made your ovaries cringe in terror?

You ain't kidding, I live in Texas, and I heard them screaming.       I kid.   My kids have had days like that.   Hubby came home one day and I asked him, "Did you bring me a padded cell?"     He said, NO, but he'd be willing to help me wipe my hand and foot prints off the walls and ceiling.

[Lunadiana75]

My maternal instinct was tarred, fetahered, burnt at the stake and then the ashes got sent to a far away solar system.

Unless it runs around on 4 legs and is covered in fur, then I turn into the most sqishiest, annoying person on the planet.  You don;t want to be around me when I look at cute overload.

[HorseFreak]

When kids do that stuff I usually say that my tubes just tied themselves. Can't say that in front of my father though, since he pitches a fit like I drowned a dozen kittens every time I mention such a thing and I'm 24, no longer living at home. I'm amazed at the noises kids can make during tantrums. It's supersonic!

[Suze]

the worst is that so fakey - wah - wah  - wah

You know the one where you know they are not hurt or anything just upset that they have to sit in a grocery cart.  Or can't get a toy or candy.

And the parent just keeps going, so you get to listen to a WHINNNNNNE all through the store.

Oh yeah - I leave quick.  With a knot in my tubes <grin>

(Never would I have been allowed to do that, Trip would have been cut short and that would have been the end of it)

[Cyndi]

Saturday was a meltdown on top of a meltdown on top of a meltdown kind of day for him - for about two and a half hours.

That was me on Friday and Saturday AND Sunday. My mom sometimes says she wishes I could sing as loud as I can scream.


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[hobish]

Saturday was a meltdown on top of a meltdown on top of a meltdown kind of day for him - for about two and a half hours.

That was me on Friday and Saturday AND Sunday. My mom sometimes says she wishes I could sing as loud as I can scream.


(Edited to add text I forgot)

Yikes, that sounds like no fun at all. I hope you're feeling better.

[Cyndi]

I think so.

That poor kid though. He's probably still exhausted.

[hobish]

I think so.

That poor kid though. He's probably still exhausted.

Glad to hear it!

The godson is schizophrenic, ADHD, and diabetic. The poor kid takes so much medication i don't know how he keeps it all down. I feel so bad for him sometimes ... when he first got upset it was for a good reason (for a 10 year old, anyway) but you can almost watch it happen as he loses control of himself. Unfortunately, he is also the one i posted about on the other board who i have seen mistreat animals. He scares me sometimes. He is big already for ten, when he is a teenager i fear to see what is going to happen when he rages like he does. 

>sigh< thanks for listening.
Oops, this took a turn for the not so humorous.

[Cyndi]

Schizophrenic at ten?! Wow...

[supernova]

the worst is that so fakey - wah - wah  - wah

You know the one where you know they are not hurt or anything just upset that they have to sit in a grocery cart.  Or can't get a toy or candy.

Oh goodness yes!  I had a friend with a son (who they later discovered to be autistic) who used to "cry" like that.  "Roooooo...  rooooooo"  He didn't even fake the wiping his eyes part; just made the sound over and over again.  "Roooo...  roooo...  roooo"

Great reinforcer of Old #1's and my decision about Never. Having. Kids.

I heard that sound in a store the other day, and I fled.

     - saphie

[hobish]

My maternal instinct was tarred, fetahered, burnt at the stake and then the ashes got sent to a far away solar system.

Unless it runs around on 4 legs and is covered in fur, then I turn into the most sqishiest, annoying person on the planet.  You don;t want to be around me when I look at cute overload.

I like that one, too

...and i feel the same way.

[MC Clapyohanz]

The godson is schizophrenic, ADHD, and diabetic

I thought schizophrenia couldn't be diagnosed until a person was an adult because a child's brain hasn't matured yet, or something like that? That's what I remember from my Child & Adolecent Psych class, but I googled it & looked at this site:
http://www1.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/77.cfm
I could look up more, but I'm tired & I don't wanna.

It says that schizophrenia diagnosed in kids under 10 years old is rare. I'm sorry for your sister & especially for your nephew, to be in that category. Hopefully he can benefit from ongoing research & new discoveries scientists are learning about the brain. (I hope that sentence makes sense. I'm tired & can't think well when it comes to wording when I'm ti-red. )

[LadyDyani]

And yet, my new SIL is declaring that her four year old is schizophrenic because she has temper tantrums.  She also says the four year old is bi-polar.  And that her two year old must have been molested by her father since she isn't potty trained yet.  Um, lady?  YOU have to potty train her.  It doesn't come to her automatically.

But then, I could start a whole new forum on this chick.