LostHerMind
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Should I send her Back - 2007/04/11 10:33
Hi all,
I need some help. I have custody of my eldest niece, she is 13, I am 23. She has lived with me for 3 years now. I took her from my sister and her stepfather because I thought she was being treated bad, she was around drug/alcohol abuse constantly and her stepfather has no respect for women or people in general. Right after she had moved in with her stepfather her attitude and demeanor changed completely. She had no self esteem what so ever.
Anyway now 3 years later I am having a few difficulties. She has a major attitude problem and acts like no rules apply to her. Last year she got in a fight and gave a girl stitches this year she broke a girls nose. She talks back to her teachers all the time and refuses to do her homework.
I am invovled in her shcool activites, she does school cheerleading and city basketball, but she acts like nothing matters and talks back and throws attitude around. I work in a clothing store so she gets all the new great clothes, she has a cell phone.
Point being she doesn't want or need for anything, maybe beacuse I grew up on the otherside of that, that I don't understand why is she has all this, plus a parent who generally cares, why she would act like this?
Anyway, tonight she is at my fiances house because I had work. She called me and I told her I might take my youngest niece with us on Thursday, we are going somewhere with him I am not sure yet its a suprise. She told me NO, if I took her she would yell at her, she didnt want her around. I told her to let it go that she was not the adult, she is 13 and I will make that decsion, she said whatever.
I am at the point where I want to go over there tomorro morning, pack up all her stuff and bring her back to her mothers house. I want to tell her that if she doesn't want to give people respect then she can live with people who have none because I am fed up. I feel like if I am treating you like a good person then you should do the same. I don't know if I am making a hasty decsion, right now I am just really mad.
Lost
Post edited by: LostHerMind, at: 2007/04/11 10:37
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