Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | WARNING to parents...-please reply, I need encouragement badly.

I have had one hell of a weekend so far!! Please take heed from what has happened to my family.

I got a call at school on my cell yesterday that I had to get home NOW because my mother in law was accused, by the police and chid services, of neglecting Kayleigh yesterday. She had her in a turned-off, locked car 10 feet away for 8 minutes-and was watching her the entire time....well some nosey Nelly thought my child was ABANDONED and called the cops, who called children's services and they all bawled my poor, incredible, innocent MIL out. We have not cried that many tears since my wedding day.

My mother in law watches my daughter when I'm working and DH is working, and she's far more loving and careful than any daycare, let alone ME! So we all rallied around her, and thankfully, everything turned out fine.

But Trevor piped up to the cops and told them he'd left Kay in the car many times for a few minutes, so they had to report THAT to children's services.....garbage. So we're waiting for a call about that. Yes, we're a bunch of negligent (for 5 minutes) abusive(never been spanked) caregivers. We don't drink around kayleigh, are all non-smokers, never ever do drugs, I take her to church, I'm a special education teacher for God's sake....it's so ABSURD that anyone would even think this crap of our family...

If she'd been left there for a long time, or if the car was running, or if it was hot, or cold, or she had an animal in there with her, etc...etc, it may have been dangerous. but how on earth am I to ever do anything with her in the car now, knowing that some "well meaning person" would TIME ME and report that I'd left her IN SIGHT for 8 minutes.?
Wah!

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Keep on keepin' on...

Edited by Shannon :) (04/08/06 02:00 PM)

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