Granny's heart was broken today...

As a lot of you know, I work at a school. Today, a second grader opened her heart to me. BOTH of her parents are in jail for meth. Her younger brother is in a foster home and she is living with her aunt. She is hurt and angry and wants to "kidnap" her brother from the foster home. She has been abuse physically and hates the people who her Mom was letting in the house "They aren't nice people." In her Mother's Day card, she wrote "Mommy please stop doing bad things. I miss you." :(

What more can I say except "GOD DAMN THE PUSHERS!"

I'm crying.

Granny

some people should be allowed to have kids

Wow, pretty sad story. Best of luck to the little girl. My heart goes out to her.

I'm sorry you had such a bad day at work granny. It's really sad how little respect some parents have for their own children. A close relative is a special ed teacher for a low income public school... She get's a lot of kids who's parents don't give two shits about them too.

All you can really do is try and make her day as good as possible while she is in your care. I'm sure you do a good job at that though. I hope that little girls life get's more stable in the near future.

look, i agree pushers (i'm assuming you mean what i know them as, the dealers selling the 'bad shit') aren't helping matters... but people have that decision to make on their own... i basicly grew up without my parents either... so i know how that hurts... but the parents are just as responsibile for leaving their kids without parents, as anyone else....

just hope you feel better.... look at this way, it may be hard, but hopefully in the end, her and her brother grow up to be good people... without those influences around constantly, they will grow up like me, see and reconize what it does to people and never think twice about going down that road...

it's hard to find a goodside to things like this, but you have to look for it, to make it through and i know this well personally... i'd sure of rather been raised by my parents, only those who grew up with them are really capable of understanding the pain, shame and thoughts that run through your head (i.e. why didn't they want me) but sometimes it's for the best... i don't know the story, but it sounds like the parents have some problems they need to sort it out before even considering becoming mother and father (if they'll ever be able too)

Show her there are better things in life.

man poor kid,she sounds like she needs Mum to ...WAKE UP. Ive got four kids and to see even one of them that sad would break my heart .Man it really makes you wonder why some people have kids,give her a hug.

i feel bad for these kids. ive known lots of people that went through the same type of stuff in their earlier years. it breaks my heart.

terrible stuff.

So sorry about that little girl, Granny! I'm so glad you were there for her, but that breaks my heart that her parents were so into their addiction that they lost their kids and put them at risk. Breaks my heart. The most innocent victims in that substance epidemic in this country are the kids. They deserve so much better.

Aw, I'm very sorry too. Well, look at it this way: At least you can have some, if small, impact upon this girl. I hate it too, I'm very bad about wanting to solve every problem I come across, and situations like that just tear me apart.

Sounds just like my two little brothers and sister. I'm old enough to take care of myself, but they're all at least 10 years younger than me. Their down in Florida right now with their grandparents and ones with his aunt. I refuse to have anything to do with my mom and my stepdad these days. My mom's actually on CrimeLine wanted for meth and cocaine possesion and asuualt/battery on a police officer, and my stepdad is in jail for breaking a womans leg in a DUI in his company truck. Good people I must say. All the shit hit the fan just a little over a year ago too. We actually had to be somewhat raised by these people too. I'm lucky I had a lot of friends and people who cared about me to look out for me growing up, and I'm glad my siblings have that now.

People like this really shouldn't be allowed to have kids... but it happens, and what can you do but wait for them to fuck up really bad?

meth is a big fucking problem...yet so much emphasis is put on marijuana prevention...compare the two and see what you get

I've seen it take lifetime friends of mine (17 years old) and turn them into completely different people; zombies on a mission..to find meth and to smoke it, nothing more whatsoever, meth and meth only. It's so fucking unbelievable, yet marijuana is a big problem, fuck that. METH IS A PROBLEM.

I live in rural oklahoma, it's probably considerably worse here than anywhere else in the country. there was this chick in her mid twenties or so, pregnant, doing this shit. She had a baby that had missing limbs and stuff because of her stupid ass. People like her should be sentenced to death.

I guess I kinda ranted too, but I hear ya, granny...it's so sad to see people throw away everything for a fucking glass pipe and chemicals to turn their brains into mush..

Mommy please stop doing bad things. I miss you."

Made me cry too.
I wanna go wake my kids and tell them how much I love them.

- Slow -

you are one of the unsung heroes of society, i'm sure you said the right things to this poor troubled little girl and are doing all that you can in your posistion.

man that shit is sad. when i was doing the evil drug, i would have quit if i got a girl knocked up.... but ive been clean for 86 days now... i think 86... and i know its hard, but you cant be spending monney on a drug like that when you should be takin care of your kid... but unfourtuntaley, the girl i was with didnt see shit the same way and killed the featus...