Post by Ceorlmann on Apr 1, 2023 21:18:59 GMT -7
Son wasn't behaving all afternoon via tantrums, and by the time we were at a Cracker Barrel for supper (he was done having a hissy fit and it was time for family as a whole to eat) he escalated his latest tantrum to the point that DW took him out of the restaurant. I stayed inside with the girls. Figured DW & son would be at/in the car, but eventually come back. Turns out that never happened. Older female chowing down outside in the front patio saw/heard DW finally yell at son throwing the tantrum outside, and accused her of abusing him (despite no physical contact, spanking, etc.). After DW called; telling me to pay for everything and GTFO she (older female) confronts me as I'm walking the girls to the car. I kept my composure, but I almost lost it completely when she said we should throw our son in a foster home if we had to resort to yelling at him and we exhausted the other options (which I earlier said to her we did). I gave a very firm, "No!" to that, and walked off. She kept on trying to scare me, I think, by saying she works with special needs folks and how she's a mandated reporter. I thought I made it very clear she wasn't intimidating me; much to her displeasure. I kept walking the girls to the car; keeping them close. We got out of there as quickly and safely as we could. DW was in literal tears for almost the rest of the two-three hour drive home.
Between me and DW from what we observed there was no recording involved by the older female.
Based on people I know of in the line of work with special needs: I don't believe it at all that she works in it. Granted, every job has bad apples and she's one of them, but last I checked no one who cares for/treats special needs folks, kids especially, would openly say I should just give up on our son and put him in foster care. Certainly not without exhausting every other option and form of help first. If she is in the line of work I don't think I've come across anyone less professional. Never mind any potential fate over being in a foster home there's no freaking way that tearing our son from us would have any semblance of a positive outcome; especially taking away the familial stability that we do our best to provide every day.
Other than reckless people behind the wheel I think I have a very high threshold to when I refer to anyone by swearwords, and boy she earned all of them from me.
Okay, rant over. Hope everyone's had a less dramatic Saturday and April Fool's Day.
I wish this was an April Fool's joke.
Between me and DW from what we observed there was no recording involved by the older female.
Based on people I know of in the line of work with special needs: I don't believe it at all that she works in it. Granted, every job has bad apples and she's one of them, but last I checked no one who cares for/treats special needs folks, kids especially, would openly say I should just give up on our son and put him in foster care. Certainly not without exhausting every other option and form of help first. If she is in the line of work I don't think I've come across anyone less professional. Never mind any potential fate over being in a foster home there's no freaking way that tearing our son from us would have any semblance of a positive outcome; especially taking away the familial stability that we do our best to provide every day.
Other than reckless people behind the wheel I think I have a very high threshold to when I refer to anyone by swearwords, and boy she earned all of them from me.
Okay, rant over. Hope everyone's had a less dramatic Saturday and April Fool's Day.
I wish this was an April Fool's joke.