
Hi guys, I could really use some advice. I have been a stay-at-home mom for 8 years, I put my career on pause to pour myself into my kids, I'm extremely protective over them and I consider myself to be a phenomenal mother.My youngest child is 2.5 and extremely sociable, a few months ago I pondered the idea of enrolling her in a preschool for a few hours a week so she could get some social time in, and so I could begin to revamp my career.I researched preschools, scoured and dug deep all over the internet looking for scores and reviews, toured facilities, the works... I found the perfect preschool, loved it and enrolled my two year old.I was super weary about "letting her go", but she jumped right in and didn't even flinch during our goodbye on her first day. On her second day, she was so excited to go, and I was happy that she was excited! I dropped her off, and a few hours later went to pick her up... I was greeted by child protective services and the police.A few days prior, I was buckling my toddler's seatbelt and she yelped out, she was already quite tired and restless, so I chopped it up to the fact that she probably just didn't want to be buckled in; a few days later, a bruise popped up in her diaper area, and I realized it was my long acrylic nail that jabbed her when I was buckling her seat belt that day. I felt awful.So, back to her second day of preschool, when the preschool went to change her diaper, they saw a bruise in her diaper area and called child protective services. Like, I get it, a bruise there is strange. I jumped through all the hoops they told me to go through, they're interviewing people in my life, interviewing my children, they searched my house, this all happened so quickly. I've been very cooperative, but now that I'm processing it all, I'm getting emotional. I don't feel like I can trust preschools, I don't feel like I can trust the system, I don't feel like I can put my child in anyone else's care... The preschool didn't even ask me about the bruise, they didn't tell what was going on, they had me pick her up at her pickup time with police waiting. This was traumatic.Part of me understands why they called, that part of me wants to "forgive and continue life at the preschool"; but part of me says "I cannot trust them after this" and wants to unenroll my child as they were so quick to get police involved.Any input or advice would be much appreciated. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2rbKbh0
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