You think you know a person!

Man if I was the girl from the store I would have hung up and called the police right away! I can't believe the audacity of some people talking to their children like that. Seriously. I completely understand she is stressed but come on we all as parents get stressed and she should know better!

If indeed the kids were taken before, I'm surprised they were returned if they live in filth. Funny she didn't need food but she needed smokes. I'm a smoker too but I make dang sure there is plenty of food and my children have everything they need for the whole month BEFORE I go buy any cigs!

Yeah I constantly feel sorry for people only to get to know them and realise that they are actually not nice and deserve their problems! At the moment I keep seeing a girl down at school that I feel really sorry for, I have not spoke to her much other than to say hiya etc but she just looks so downtrodden by life and I saw her fella the other day laying into her by the side of the road. He was like really shouting at her and when he saw me coming he started hugging her. She wears really scruffy clothes, her daughter is always in scruffy school clothes and she always sobs her heart out when she comes out of school and I just feel so sorry for them. The man is not the childs father either which makes me wonder how things are when they are at home. The trouble with me is I always mither too much about other people, then I end up getting involved and things turn horrible so this time even though I feel really sorry for her I am not going to get involved in anything!

Life is so,what kind of person can be met!Children are inncent!Very poor!But the choice of what kind of lamily,what kind od life we must!After watching how she has changed!

Yes this women desire her children, to be taken away from her, she is not a good mother and she is going to tell the child, she is going to choke them to death, you don't say things like that to a child, I hope CPS takes her kids, and take them right away this makes me angry.

Oh absolutely! My dad's side of the family (to whom we weren't close but would see from time to time), they lived in an area where people struggled quite a bit financially. My dad's siblings were always asking him to lend them money and he always would. Then, instead of getting groceries, they would start by buying a case of beer and a carton of cigarettes. One of my uncles asked my dad to lend him an amount of money, too... he'd gotten drunk and lost money gambling. He didn't want my aunt, who was my dad's sister, to know about it so my dad covered him. He was never able to pay the cash back to my dad so, instead, he offered to give my dad one of their extra lawnmowers for the debt. We didn't even need a lawnmower... but my dad took it anyway so that my uncle could feel that he'd repaid his debt. BUT! My aunt only knew about the lawnmower part ... so every chance she had, she would remind my Dad about "Remember how Bill gave you that lawnmower for free?" because her husband was SO "generous" It was ridiculous.

For my part, I felt sorry for a guy that was also having financial trouble. He couldn't seem to keep up his truck payments and insurance and was always having a problem covering other bills. So, I made some of his payments for him - making sure to say I didn't expect to be paid back (lending money just never works out right). I thought I was helping. Then, he asked me if I could send him some cash because he owed it to a guy who had lent him money too (bad to worse, I know). I felt bad that he seemed to be genuinely trying to clear all his debts and get back on his feet so, again, I helped. Then, I found out he had given the cash to another woman that he was interested in at the time... he was playing between the both of us... and he thought helping HER out was going to impress her!! So, to answer your question, YES that sure changed my feelings and attitude towards him. JERK!

Unfortunately that is how a lot of people are now a days and it is terrible for the people that are really trying and trying honestly. I know that the stress can be overwhelming at times but that doesn't mean that you should say such hurtful things to your children. I get stressed at times and there has been times when I have "sterned" my voice to where my kids know I mean business but never would I say anything even remotely close to what this mother said to her children. I feel sorry for the young children in this situation, unfortunately there are too many families like this exact family and like in this situation you try to help and only end up getting burned because they don't have their priorities straight.

That's awful, I feel so bad for those poor kids.

When it comes to stuff like this there's always multiple sides of the story. Of course the people involved put the poor me spin on it but the reality is that there's always a reason things like this (CPS etc) happen, and there's usually fault somewhere. I usually try to remain impartial when someone tells me their side of a story. I'll form an opinion based on it but I still reserve judgement until I hear 'the other sides'.

I hope those kids get what they need, it's just not fair.

Wow, I was going to ask if this discussion was about the man and woman, where the man robbed a wal*mart. Now I don't feel sorry for these people at all. It's very bad when the mother in law has called CPS, and I do hope that she gets the children, or another family member gets the children. This woman seems to need help with anger issues, but nonetheless I do hope she gets some help, and the man too. So the man is not the one being investigated by CPS? If he had not robbed this store he probably would have gotten the children, but I don't know how the law will handle that now. I wonder if the wife made the husband rob the store? Seems to me that maybe she's spending too much money on smokes or something like that.

This is a good discussion,and to many bad things involving children are happening nowadays and it is just wrong,I am sorry to hear that the mad shoplifted which was a stupid mood,but I am sure we do not know exactly why he did it,and it sounds like the wife is the bad one here,she was trying to get smokes,and she yelled at her kid which is something no one should ever do,and I feel sorry for those kids and hope that someone takes care of them and gives them what they need,and I used to have a friend who was having trouble with his girlfriend,and I felt sorry for him because I thought it was her fault,until I found out he was the controlling one,and he was the one lying and the one cheating,and then I changed my attitude toward him,and now I am not friends with him but I am friends with his ex,have a great day,good luck with your life,and all of your mylotting goals,and Happy Posting.

Hi Kat!
Wow! I cannot believe that people like that exist! I am so in shock... While reading your story I too felt bad for this lady until the very end! She needs a wake up call! I would have called CPS too, in a heart beat, no child asks to be brought in this world, why would you treat them that way! Mothers like that make me so angry!