As the Grandmother of four children I have seen so many changes since my children were young and they are all frightening. When my son was a teen and giving me problems I could go to the State for help. Now they say there are no funds to help families.
My fourteen year old Grandson is using drugs. He curses his parents, he hits his parents and siblings and there is not one thing they can do. Last week there were six police officers standing in the yard while this boy cursed his father and them. They said right in front of the boy that he had freedom of speech and there was nothing they could do. Ok have none of these officers ever watched “Cops?” Why is it that if an adult spits at cops and curses them they can slam them to the ground and put hand cuffs on them and if they resist they can taze them. But anyone under the age of 18 has freedom of speech? That is so lame. And so unfair. Where do you turn when a child is out of control now? No where. Because he is using drugs there are no Christian facilities that will take him.
So I came up with the great idea to Baker Act him. He was threatening suicide. He told me on the phone and he said it to his father. Guess what. He has to say it in front of an officer of the court. Give me a break. He can sit in school all day and not pick up a pencil or write his name on his paper. He can sit there all day and sleep. And they do nothing unless he becomes so disruptive that the rest of the class cannot do their work. Then the parent has to come and get him. That’s what he wants, He wants to go home. He wants to sleep all day so he can run the roads all night. He is fourteen.
My son’s wife has left him. She cant live with this child anymore and will not even allow him in her home. The other three children want to live with their father but one by one have also moved out to go to the mothers house who keeps sending them back to him because none of them will show her any respect. That is a whole different story but I don’t blame any one of them. She does not deserve to be respected as a mother but as an adult I say yes, they should show respect. These four children are being bounced back and forth like rag dolls. And the system will not do anything.
