Another Stupid SC

[Mr.Bill]

Where I work, we are mandated by law to report any claims of child abuse. We had an SC come in saying he wanted to talk to a director because, "I don't beat my children, but I had a social worker come out to my house." Another customer was standing by (not an SC, thankfully) and was trying to explain to him that some places must report no matter what.

The guy was insistant, "Well, I want them to tell me, blah blah, I don't beat my kids, she said it because of some 'condition'"

Ever had anyone stupid like that? We're doin our job for gosh sakes!!

[One-Fang]

Yikes. The kid comes in and says "daddy beats me" and he wants you to do nothing?! He should be having a word to daughter about why she says these things, not your people.

[Becks]

Reminds me of a story I heard in HS.

In the elementary school, they gave the children a survey asking numerous questions, one of which was: Do your parents drink?

All the children answered yes.





For children that young, they took the question literally..so OF course their parents drink...water, coffee, soda, juice, not just alcoholic ones.

:shrugs: Did I take this too far off topic?

[Imogene]

Yikes. The kid comes in and says "daddy beats me" and he wants you to do nothing?! He should be having a word to daughter about why she says these things, not your people.

This reminds me of a few stories from my Chesterfield days. Oddly enough, both star old SM...

One day, he turned to me and said "You know? I think the best line I've ever heard from a kid was along the lines of 'This isn't my father!' while being carried over a guy's shoulder."
My response? "That makes my head hurt just thinking about it... If the kid was his, why did he not do something to get his kid to stop yelling lies? If it wasn't his kid, why didn't he get the kid to shut up?"

Another time, Old SM and I were standing in the store, about an hour before close, a woman and a man struggle past our store front, the woman yelling at the man about some kid he was walking out of the mall, if memory serves. The couple stopped just at the corner of our store to yell back and forth for ten minutes or so, and eventually walked off. A customer came into the store right about then and asked what was up with them?
"No clue."
Did we call police? According to old SM "It's not our argument." So, no.

[PhotoChick]

In my senior(?) english class in high school we had this big poetry unit where we had to write all this different kind of poetry for a project. One of the poems was a haiku. I decided to write one about my exboyfriend cause I had seen him previously that day and it brought up bad memories. (Basically he took me to homecoming and he thought his reward should be getting with me. When I wouldn't put out he broke up with me. I was 14 at the time.) So I wrote a poem about what a jerk he was. But with a haiku you only have so many syllables. All I remember was the words used and abused were in it (Cause at 14 thats how I felt). Apparently those are red flag words. Oops. I didnt get mad at my teacher when he wanted to "talk" to me. Cause I realise in that profession you have to ask.

[angelkirie]

This is probably slightly off-topic but I'm really concerned and apparently there's nothing we can do about this:

Every Friday night we get a family coming into the store (which is about a mile and a half long if you follow the path they tell you to), mom goes shopping, dad checks 4 yr old kid into the play area then goes to sit in the restaurant playing on his laptop. Now the play area only allows kids in for one hour at a time, once the hour is up, dad checks the kid out and tells him "go find your mom." ....

This store probably has 10,000 visitors a day and this is a FRIDAY NIGHT!!! Last time I was involved, we found the kid wandering through a department, no adult in sight. So we took him to the security office and paged his dad. Turns out security knows this kid by sight because this happens every week! Anyway, dad gets there, all angry that we're interfering with his decision to let the kid wander around alone... The store manager on duty tried to explain to him exactly how many people come through the store everyday, especially on busy days like Fridays; and the dad just says "He's old enough to look out for himself" really gruffly and stomps off!

WTF!!! The kid is like 4, MAYBE 5.

GRRR. They make me so angry and security can't do anything about it because as long as the parents are IN the store it's not child abandonment!

/rant

[Jester]

I just hope the yaks from my rant in the meerkat murder discussion find their way to these award winners' house sometime soon.

[LostMyMind]

The guy was insistant, "Well, I want them to tell me, blah blah, I don't beat my kids, she said it because of some 'condition'"

Ever had anyone stupid like that? We're doin our job for gosh sakes!!

I don't look at it as stupid. While the guy had gone about it the wrong way. Should have had a doctor note explaining the "condition". There are legitimate medical "condition" that will look like abuse. But then again it could be actual abuse. You couldn't know, but I would think you would like to be inform of legitimate medical problems.

I'm not going to touch the subject of the "kids don't lie" B.S.

[Ree]

They make me so angry and security can't do anything about it because as long as the parents are IN the store it's not child abandonment!

It may not be abandonment, but it's clearly a case of neglect and lack of care for the well-being and safety of their child.

"(Neglect) is defined as a "type of maltreatment that refers to the failure to provide needed age-appropriate care," such as...supervision...needed for development of physical, intellectual and emotional capacities. Unlike physical and sexual abuse, neglect is usually typified by an ongoing pattern of inadequate care
Physical neglect -- accounts for the majority of cases of maltreatment. The definition includes...inadequate supervision ...and failing to adequately provide for the child's safety...Physical neglect can severely impact a child's development by causing...physical harm in the form of cuts, bruises and burns due to lack of supervision"

Seems to me that would qualify.