He's Not Going To Live Till He's Two

[spud912]

This is just awful! How could that older boy do that to his younger sibling? Wow! I hope the investigation is thorough!

[Leigh]

You need to call CPS and give them the info you have, as well. This mom needs help with learning how to parent. I would have reported it myself.

[tehck_1013]

wow-how awful. And how the hell could dad remain asleep when you know that toddler was shrieking and screaming as he was being cut???!!! Also, what a twisted little child to continually keep on doing that. Once, for curiosity, ok, maybe...but seeing that it caused their brother all that pain to continue? Therapy time...those poor kids. Do you think the kid actually did it?

What child wakes up after being asleep to randomly go get a pair of scissors and slice up his sibling? After my son is asleep, bombs could be exploding outside his window and it wouldn't wake him up... However, when he wakes up on his own at night, his first thoughts are 'BATHROOM' not 'hmmmm...... i'm gonna go hurt my sister MUAHAHAHA.' Idk, I just don't think that story adds up much and so it's really good that CPS got involved.

I just don't understand families abusive home lives. It just puzzles me. Its always either emotional abuse, physical abuse, or neglect like this story. And here I am over here watching my kids play matchbox cars on the living room floor and just promised them a couple rounds of Go Fish here in a few minutes... How hard is it, ya know?

I just scarred myself for life about a month ago watching "Speak 4 Those That Can't" videos on youtube, sobbing like a little baby. Sealed the deal for reasoning behind why I'm trying to do this. I guess there's reasons why good child care providers are put here on this earth because they make the difference in childrens' lives, even if by only a few. We can't change what happens at home but we can keep them safe when they are in our care

[Blackcat31]

What child wakes up after being asleep to randomly go get a pair of scissors and slice up his sibling? After my son is asleep, bombs could be exploding outside his window and it wouldn't wake him up... However, when he wakes up on his own at night, his first thoughts are 'BATHROOM' not 'hmmmm...... i'm gonna go hurt my sister MUAHAHAHA.' Idk, I just don't think that story adds up much and so it's really good that CPS got involved.

I just don't understand families abusive home lives. It just puzzles me. Its always either emotional abuse, physical abuse, or neglect like this story. And here I am over here watching my kids play matchbox cars on the living room floor and just promised them a couple rounds of Go Fish here in a few minutes... How hard is it, ya know?

I just scarred myself for life about a month ago watching "Speak 4 Those That Can't" videos on youtube, sobbing like a little baby. Sealed the deal for reasoning behind why I'm trying to do this. I guess there's reasons why good child care providers are put here on this earth because they make the difference in childrens' lives, even if by only a few. We can't change what happens at home but we can keep them safe when they are in our care

It's hard when you don't know how to parent. Generations of parents grew up in the system where "parenting skills" weren't role modeled or taught to them.

It's hard when you are trying to keep your family together but you either lack the knowledge, support, income or skills to do so.

It's hard when one or both parents suffer from addiction

It's even harder when there is mental illness involved.

It's hard when you really don't have any idea what is or isn't the right way to do things....so you work as much as you can, try to keep everyone healthy, happy and safe but sometimes have to choose because you DO KNOW you aren't going to get all of them.


I've cared for many families that had bad situations going on in their home lives and I tried to help the best I could but sometimes, just being the one consistent place for a child is hard too. Sometimes, that isn't always whats best either.

I don't know....

I just wanted to comment on your comment "How hard is it, ya know?"
because we DON'T know.

Sometimes it IS hard.

[MarinaVanessa]

I've often wondered about this family. Is there any updates on how they are doing and whether or not they got help? I really hope this family got support for the problems they were having with older DS.

[CtheLove]

I think what it comes down to is mental illness. There is a lot of mental illness that runs in my family and I know how bad it can effect some one. How it can effect your decision making and your judgment on a lot of things. What most people think is common sense is not to them any more. Like meeko's story I'm glad that the boys were removed for the mothers care, but what help did the mother get, probably none. This happened to an Aunt of mine she really just lost it after her mother died and did some really stupid **** and had her son taken away. They gave custody to the father which in this case wasn't any better (who had drug and alcohol problems) but they didn't check that out before placing my cousin into his care. But they didn't offer to get her any help to get better and get her son back, my mother (her sister) helped get assistants to see a doctor and get meds and straighten out her life again and it took her 10 years to get full custody of her son back even thu she had gotten better with in 2 years and was paying child support plus buying them groceries, paying the phone bill, paying for new clothes and school supplies and just about everything else.

I regress, my point is, is that I think it really comes down to mental illness even depression. I don't think every case the first response should be pulling the kids out it should be getting the parents help as in therapy, medication, or educational classes or all three.

Also kinda like what Blackcat was saying there is some people out there that just don't know, for what ever reason, what is right and wrong when it comes to kids. As providers most of us that are on here are licensed and we have access to the most updated educational classes about young children that other parents don't. Maybe we should try to pass on what we have learned to the parents and not just assume that since we know this stuff now the parents also do to.

Sorry this was so long and I don't want any one think that I''m trying to 'attack' anyone's comments on here, these are just my thoughts and I just wanted to share them.

[Childminder]

After questioning the older boy myself I truly believe he was trying to cut his brother's hair. As far as the other episodes of behavior, the parents just don't watch the children as they should. They need to attend parenting classes at the very least, imo.

MV. I have lost contact with the family other than an update in April to the babies cleft surgery and a Happy Mother's Day text with photo of the baby's new lip.

A little awkward to call and ask, "BTW has anything else happened that CPS was called?" Kwim?