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I love this forum and the people here, it is such a relief from my everyday life. I will not be venting anymore because the ugly that is happening out here in Philly is getting overwhelming.
Just yesterday, 3 children and a mother were killed by a robber engaged in a high speed chase. www.nbc10.com I was taking my mentally ill son to make his first out patient appointment and the place we went to was the same place the mother of one of the children killed, goes for therapy.
It was so sad, first off to be in a community where the mental health facility is three stories high and packed to the gills with clients. It makes me sad my child is one of those people suffering. I'm off balance EVERYDAY, when I see my daycare kids come to care literally in rags. One little girl is muslim and I'm going to order her some hand made over garments (I have a freind who sews me dresses for $20 a pc) and another child's shoes are so ragged they look like trash ( I brought his winter coat and boots and I don't want to offend the mom by buying anything else, I've also brought for his siblings).
Most of my workers are illiterate, I had a woman interview who didn't know the name of a triangle. Philadelphia has had this big housing boom, so most of the poor and under-priveleged are packed into the areas of the city where alot of these horriffic crimes are happening, there are no more music classes, no more gym and few schools have recess anymore.
So wahhh wahhh wahhh, am I upset because I am getting old? I want to end this post on a positive note because I cannot even talk any further about the daily bullcrap going on. I want to just make soap and hide up here in the NE, I also keep trying to draw enuf strength to use my assets to start a"club-house" of sorts...take the abandoned building on my street and make a homelike place with adult monitors where kids (12 to 17 years old when the age out of daycare)can come afterschool and during the summer, have sit down meals, cook, walk on clean carpet, watch TV, use the computer, wash clothes, have airconditioning or heat as appropriate and learn basic decent living skills.
If you guys only knew the crap I see daily.
Just yesterday, 3 children and a mother were killed by a robber engaged in a high speed chase. www.nbc10.com I was taking my mentally ill son to make his first out patient appointment and the place we went to was the same place the mother of one of the children killed, goes for therapy.
It was so sad, first off to be in a community where the mental health facility is three stories high and packed to the gills with clients. It makes me sad my child is one of those people suffering. I'm off balance EVERYDAY, when I see my daycare kids come to care literally in rags. One little girl is muslim and I'm going to order her some hand made over garments (I have a freind who sews me dresses for $20 a pc) and another child's shoes are so ragged they look like trash ( I brought his winter coat and boots and I don't want to offend the mom by buying anything else, I've also brought for his siblings).
Most of my workers are illiterate, I had a woman interview who didn't know the name of a triangle. Philadelphia has had this big housing boom, so most of the poor and under-priveleged are packed into the areas of the city where alot of these horriffic crimes are happening, there are no more music classes, no more gym and few schools have recess anymore.
So wahhh wahhh wahhh, am I upset because I am getting old? I want to end this post on a positive note because I cannot even talk any further about the daily bullcrap going on. I want to just make soap and hide up here in the NE, I also keep trying to draw enuf strength to use my assets to start a"club-house" of sorts...take the abandoned building on my street and make a homelike place with adult monitors where kids (12 to 17 years old when the age out of daycare)can come afterschool and during the summer, have sit down meals, cook, walk on clean carpet, watch TV, use the computer, wash clothes, have airconditioning or heat as appropriate and learn basic decent living skills.
If you guys only knew the crap I see daily.
