one of my clients has a guardian who makes nurse ratched look like pollyanna. she makes miss hannigan look like pollyanna. hell, she makes kathy bates's character in "misery" look like pollyanna!
she is just so, so mean. not physically abusive - thank God - but mean, mean, mean. actually, in some weird twisted way, it would be better if she were physically abusive.......because maybe then, we could get those kids outa that home.
on the opposite end of the continuum is a mom who does absolutely zero in the parenting department. absolutely zero. all she does is play video games. 24/7, with her kids. that's it. video games. ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom - parenting done.
when i leave one of these homes and go to the next, i feel like i'm in the twilight zone or something.
but, i better not feel like i'm in the twilight zone or something. i better feel like i'm in the let-me-fix-this-mess-for-you zone - because that's my job description. to "fix" people who don't wanna be "fixed" and don't intend to be "fixed."
peeps? i'm good, but i'm not that good.
i could have gone into the fashion industry instead. i coulda been a waitress. i coulda worked at baskin-robbins and spent my day really making people happy.
if i worked at baskin-robbins, though, i probably woulda clobbered anybody who came in and ordered vanilla.
