A sequel to JohnABC's vlog on his mischievous KODAs.
Here is the picture of Wes with the black eye and buzz cut after I took him to the hair salon. The indentation around his neck was under his chin and is not visible from camera view. You can see the bald spot around his ear from the hair scissors.
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Ouch! I can understand you wishes that you should take your son to haircut first.
Wrong time and wrong place, the lady at store to call police. It is accidently. Glad they did not call CPS. I was go through alot of pain. it was not because of child assulted. "Teenager issues were more stickly."
Be aware! if your son is in trouble in school. They will call police and CPS. They will be serious than store.
I know I agree hearing women suppose to ask you instead of calling police. I don't blame you for that. Better to take picture and show your kids when what's happened. I think you are great mom..
Don't worry about negative by the lady at store.
Speaking of about blinds are very dangerous! I think you learning something it is mistakens.
Good idea to take a picture when your son grow up and learn from all of things happened mistaken.
Glad he is alright!
What a nightmare!
As hard as it is to encounter a police officer about issues of child abuse, I'm glad that people look out for this kind of thing. Children need angels in their corner.
At the same time, as a deaf parent, I know how scary that was for you.
When my son was a toddler, he developed pink eye from another child in his day care, and then, in the same week, bonked the eye that was infected on the corner of a table in a hotel room where we stayed on a family trip. So his already swollen eye became even more swollen. I worried to death that someone would accuse me of child abuse, but I did not and have never abused my child! But to a stranger who knew nothing about me or my son's situation, it might have looked that way.
It's a parent's worst nightmare. I can understand your panic and anger back then.
Still, even as faulty as our system can be, it's nice to know there are people looking out for the best interests of children. As a Parent Educator, one of the things I emphasize more than others is the need for deaf parents to be hyper-vigilant in their supervision of their children. It really matters.
Thanks for bravely sharing your story.
~ LaRonda
Ah, the perils of being the younger brother to a boy! :)
Hmm hmm I think W did have a bad week! Poor him... and POOR YOU for having so many run-ins with the cops! lol
i enjoyed the stories!! thank you... i lovvee to hear children stories cuz i have a son (my firstborn) who just turned 1. i cant imagine what the years will bring!
Deaf Pixie,
it was a man who accused me of child abuse. My son's been in trouble in school but they don't call CPS. Only time they will call CPS at school is when they see evidence of child abuse, neglect, sexual assault, rape, etc. For just getting into trouble such as fighting, problems with teacher, bad grades, etc, they don't call CPS for that.
LaRonda,
Yes, I know as a "village" we should watch out for children, however, that store did not ASK me or my son. They simply assumed and called the police. Which was why cop was annoyed with the store manager and told him he should have asked before calling the police.
It does seem some people get too involved with other people's business without much justification. It is better to inquire first. I wish the store manager asked first.
I've seen other children with injuries myself but I don't jump in and accuse. I would allow people who are close to the child to make that determination to contact CPS or law enforcement as they would know the child better than I. I can assume a lot from just looking at the child and I know a lot of what I assume could be wrong. I DID contact CPS once when a student of mine showed evidence of neglect and abuse. I had to make sure I saw justification in calling CPS. That was the first and last time.
Posietea,
Hope your son will be kinder to you than mine were!
Awww...poor your boy! Yes, I know and understand every mother's nightmares about their children. I do, too. I hate to see parents being innocently accused for abusing/neglecting their kids by people, cops or cps. I watched news on tv probably last summer or so that a woman started "working" on cps situations and tried to changed policies (step by step) for better. For example, cps usually take kids away immediately without parents knowing what is going on, etc without "definetely" if kids are abused or neglected. They should do step by step first to make sure before children are taken away from parents. Anyway if once they take children away, it become more harder (difficults) on parents when they try to get kids back. I had seen 2 separate situations like this. poor mothers!!! (one luckily got her kids back and other one was forced to give up her kids for adoption).
Yes, when my kids were small I was often concerned about them hurting each other or gathering enough bruises to get the cops called on me. It is amazing how they trip, bump, crash into things, get hit by bats or balls, get caught in doors, and other disasters and collect bruises of all colors.
Many toys that we got for our first child, when an only child, were not appropriate for a family of three little kids. It is amazing how many different toys can become weapons.
I learned quickly to stay within sight of the kids at all times until they were of school age. You can be out of sight of one child sometimes in a house, but never three at once!
Despite such precautions, each of them had at least one experience with stitches! One fell on a table, one fell off a fire hydrant, and one took until her teens to break a leg at a friend's house.
It never ends. Even after child-proofing the house and all, moms still end up a bit nuts.
Dianrez,
My boys both had plenty of stitches and broken bones. I think they're badges of honor! The stories of their life experience. A kid with no stitch or broken bone has led a uneventful and boring life.
The most recent was when Garth tore open his chin when he gawked at a pretty girl while walking down the bleacher at the baseball field and missed a bench...he fell and hit his chin on something sharp. He was 14. When I took him to the ER for the stitches, I asked him what happened and when he told me, I had to laugh! A pretty girl could be dangerous to his health! Wes got another black eye when he gawked at yet another pretty girl and walked right into a door at school.
We mothers can't cushion our children from the dangers of life but abuse is another story!
Hi Cy,
You made me laughed about Garth in last of comment to Dianerz
By the way about CPS. I got trouble by school. After that it was clearly dismissal of situation what happened. My older daugther were not have a bruise at all. Thats how they heard rumor messed up and with CPS.
After I speaked out with CPS. Did you see any of her bruise. but I have bruise. it was fade you should looking same day. CPS feel lousy.
Something kids and one of parents learn lesson any of typical. I think you were right about typical hearing people ignored you. I m glad they did not call CPS and straight out, When the cop listen your kids better.
I know how frustrated with communicate with hearing lady at store. your boys are looking so sweet and mischevious are very common of CODA kids.
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