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Comment by Ernie Scheinert on May 15, 2011 at 2:11am

That would be difficult, Heather. It takes a really special person to give many of those kids a chance to try to turn their lives around.

We had a foster home across the street from us when we lived in Oxnard and those kids came over fairly regularly whenever we were out playing with the stock car, building BBQs, among other neat projects and my dad thought it was pretty cool to be able to expose them to some of that kind of stuff. However, one of them learned really quickly not to ask my dad if he had a light for a cigarette while he had a cutting torch in his hand...LMAO!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 2:07am

and now that you explain it - you are right - that is what I feel about my infantile housemates... they NEED "guiding... in the correct direction"

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 2:05am

i KNOW because I have HAD those FEELINGS... A LOT !!!

lolololol and I have practiced calming myself down... ALOT

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on May 15, 2011 at 1:55am

You are GOOD...how did you know?...LMAO

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 1:54am

i foster parented for 7 years - high risk kids age 8-21...

and several of them I have had the police handcuff, or the police have brought them to me in handcuffs... the best was the one day one of my kids was also in leg irons... I asked the officer to leave him there in the irons for 7 hours - LOLOLOLOL

still didn't work - i found out 5 years later (when he was an adult) he was in a foot chase with the PD for some stupid crime and he jumped off our city bridge into the half iced over river - in the middle of winter... and he never came out. The PD found him dead the next day 1/2 mile down stream jammed up under a block of ice in the river.

apparently he needed more than an evening in leg irons...

he only lived with me a few months - but it sucks !!!

Great kid - messed up life...

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 1:49am

numerous times per day... per child... lolololol

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on May 15, 2011 at 1:48am

no, don't whip, just use the phrase...although, it has crossed my mind NUMEROUS times...hehe

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 1:44am

i prefer the prison and fun deprivation approach

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on May 15, 2011 at 1:42am

so you whip your kids?

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on May 15, 2011 at 1:40am

I also prefer to think of whips in the "happy" connotations as well...hehe. However, I also like to refer to the phrase for guiding the young ones in the correct direction when needed.

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