I’m quite a realistic person but I would like to believe that if a child had been through something/so many things so bad they ended up in foster care, they would go to a family where they would be part of that family and not treated badly by a spoilt little madam. (I know sadly that isn’t always the case and there have been some poor children who have gone into truly awful foster situations).Traumatised foster children aren’t difficult, using that word suggests they have a choice in their behaviour? They’re suffering and need help. In the same way a baby can’t be good or bad, they aren’t either they just need help to regulate their moods. This sort of moral judgment on children who’ve truly been through bits is abhorrent, the girl is a bleep devoid of any empathy. She helped parent them despite being their peer as she was BETTER than them okay?? Her parents owned their 5 bed so she just knows more okay??
only watched the start but the disdain she shows for the host is...so bizarre it’s almost funny? It’s not even outright agg it’s a simmering teenage surliness, for what? You don’t have to turn up to everything you’re invited to love maybe sit the things you’ve got to pretend to be kind for out sweetie x
I have a colleague who is a foster carer and they’ve mentioned a few things about their foster children. One that sticks in my mind was a little boy who would eat out their bins because he’d been starved before so if he saw food in the rubbish he would take it and eat it so quickly because the fear of not being fed was so great. And that was in spite of them telling him there was always food and the food was for him. He couldn’t help being the way he was, he wasn’t being disgusting or causing trouble or attention-seeking (I can imagine Jack labelling foster kids as attention-seeking for some reason....) And that would be appreciated by anyone with an ounce of empathy.