cfpackerfan I love my tail!  51,606 posts Likes: 1 Joined May 2006 Location: Beautiful Southern Utah Relevant posts: 813 More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:34 | #3376 Anything for you Jim. mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #5344354  I had to work with our afterschool children.... There is one girl... <snip> broke my heart....
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Permagrin High Priestess of all I survey  77,915 posts Likes: 21 Joined Aug 2006 Location: day dreamin' More info | *hugs* Jen...very sorry...it's so hard to work with kids when you have no control over their home lives and can only help them so far....sorry! .. It's Permie's world, we just live in it! ~CDS
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misspix THREAD STARTER Misscreant  32,636 posts Joined Jun 2006 Location: panning like a broken monkey... More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:35 | #3378 Time to feed the masses. Terri |GEAR|
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3Turner Rick Rolled Fanboy  26,511 posts Likes: 2 Joined May 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX USA More info | mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #5344354 I had to work with our afterschool children.... There is one girl... {SNIP}...It broke my heart.... That was tough to read Jen....it's good that you could be there for her. Makes me mad that there are homes like that out there. Robert | Gear |
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BearLeeAlive All butt cheeks and string.  30,200 posts Likes: 70 Joined May 2005 Location: Calgary, AB More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:38 | #3380 That sounds so terribly sad Jenn, I am so glad you were there for her. This child is lucky to have you in her life, especially if she does not have any good support in her own home. -JIM-
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cfpackerfan I love my tail! 51,606 posts Likes: 1 Joined May 2006 Location: Beautiful Southern Utah Relevant posts: 813 More info | O M G !!!! Cat -the femine feline with the namby arms. Loquacious, but not to a fault.
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3Turner Rick Rolled Fanboy 26,511 posts Likes: 2 Joined May 2005 Location: San Antonio, TX USA More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:40 | #3382 |
mtnphtgrphr POTN Photographer of the Year 2008  15,250 posts Likes: 1 Joined Jan 2008 Location: Land O'Sky More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:40 | #3383 misspix wrote in post #5344365 Oh, Jen  {{{Jen}}}I'm so sorry. She is fortunate to have you in her corner. cfpackerfan wrote in post #5344377 Anything for you Jim.  That is heart wrenching. I'm glad she has you. Thank you for hugging her. SO many people are 'afraid' to hug kids these days.Permagrin wrote in post #5344382 *hugs* Jen...very sorry...it's so hard to work with kids when you have no control over their home lives and can only help them so far....sorry! Thanks guys. I've seen alot and dealt with alot... I've seen abuse/neglect... There isn't much I haven't seen with these kids... but when her hair entire sections of hair were in the hallway... and on the carpet in front of me... for whatever reason that shook me to the core today... Like I said I have NO idea what happened with her today... and I'll ask the director tomorrow, and she'll tell me... in about the 5 min that I sat with her hugging her and she wasn't crying... she was saying things that should never have to come out of a 10 year old child's mouth.... Jenn, gone back to novice photographer...
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reneethomas Demoted and banished by the TF  3,051 posts Likes: 4 Joined Jul 2007 Location: In the land of Misfits NM More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:40 | #3384 cfpackerfan wrote in post #5344396 O M G !!!! I was searching for my collage thing, and LOOK WHAT I FOUND!  My how time flies!Oh I love that one! Racquel is my real name
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Miniflash "Sleeping with my camera"  40,961 posts Joined Jul 2006 Location: almost under a bridge More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:41 | #3385 mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #5344354 I had to work with our afterschool children.... There is one girl... she's got ALOT of issues, a really lousy homelife with way too much drama for one 10 year old... way too much crap.... she doesn't deal well with authority... she is extremely impulsive... and hot tempered... She and I bonded... I don't know why... but she listens to me, for a period of time she worked hard to keep her self in check so that she and I could go off and spend 30 min just me and her talking, feeding horses whatever we found ourselves doing... But today... I have no clue what happened... I have no idea how she got to this point, I was with another group of children... but when I went to clock out to go home.... I found her in the directors office..... this child was ripping her own hair out in anger.... she was crying and angry... It absolutely ripped my heart out. she was sitting in the office floor a pile of her hair in front of her on the carpet... her head in her hands sobbing.... I just crawled on the floor to her and hugged her. Normally I find out the issue before I do that kind of thing because I don't want to condone bad choices... but I held her and she sobbed harder... some of the things she said to me... This child is single handedly one of the most difficult children we have to deal with in our program... but for whatever reason she bonded with me, and I with her... I ended up sitting there in the office floor crying with her... talking to her... It broke my heart.... Jenn so nice of you to be there for her ..I had alot of trama as a young girl and in retrospect ...people like you where there and now i feel they where angels watching over me . Deb
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mtnphtgrphr POTN Photographer of the Year 2008 15,250 posts Likes: 1 Joined Jan 2008 Location: Land O'Sky More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:43 | #3386 3Turner wrote in post #5344391 That was tough to read Jen....it's good that you could be there for her. Makes me mad that there are homes like that out there. We're somewhat of a small community... between staff and parents there are alot of them who grew up together... one of our staff knew this mom in high school... and she lived a bad life herself... and the cycle hasn't broken for her daughter... it's very tragic... BearLeeAlive wrote in post #5344394 That sounds so terribly sad Jenn, I am so glad you were there for her. This child is lucky to have you in her life, especially if she does not have any good support in her own home. I just wish I could do more... Jenn, gone back to novice photographer...
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Guineh I've been wisdom free for about 10 years, now.  9,030 posts Joined May 2006 Location: In a gilded cage More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:43 | #3387 |
cfpackerfan I love my tail! 51,606 posts Likes: 1 Joined May 2006 Location: Beautiful Southern Utah Relevant posts: 813 More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:43 | #3388 Well, I found it, and it's not really a tutorial. Cat -the femine feline with the namby arms. Loquacious, but not to a fault.
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Miniflash "Sleeping with my camera" 40,961 posts Joined Jul 2006 Location: almost under a bridge More info | Apr 16, 2008 20:43 | #3389 A Big Heart Jenn ..thats what she needed Deb
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