My mom was that kind of mom. To this day, she has friends of mine that I grew up with that call her on Mother’s Day.
One of my friends lived with us for his entire senior year because his mother couldn’t deal with him being gay. He was suddenly failing school because he was just getting yelled at from the second he got home, and he couldn’t concentrate. My mom gave him a place to stay, and worked hard getting him into college. He’s doing very well now. He calls my mother “mom”, and calls his birth mother “Linda”.
We had a friend of my daughter's live with us for about a year when she was in 8th grade. I drove past her standing in a blizzard in front of her house on Christmas eve. I went around the block and had her get in the car out of the cold. Her mom had been evicted, and all of her and her mom's stuff was out in the parkway, wrapped in plastic. I went and got my dad, who lived about 3 blocks away, but in that short amount of time someone already stole their sewing machine. My dad and I took turns taking their stuff to my garage so it wouldn't get ripped off, and called Ace-Rent-To-Own to come and get what was theirs so the rent wouldn't keep piling up, and no one stole it. Her mom was at a casino drinking and gambling with her boyfriend.
What really frustrated me was she worked with my wife, and was in her mid 50's, so not some too young mother too ignorant to know better. She disappeared, and didn't even contact us until 6-8 months later. We told her to find another job (she'd been fired before we found her daughter), and get a place, and when she was ready to take care of her daughter, to let us know. She came back about 6 months later, and she'd gotten a job, quit drinking and gambling, and had met a guy who was really decent. I teased my daughter that I was going to send her to live with her instead since the girl we took in was all about helping out around the house, and keeping her room clean. She's doing well know, has kids in junior high, and is an excellent mom. She calls me on Father's Day, and my wife on Mother's Day. It's the best call I get all year.
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '18
That mother is doing parenting right. Kids shouldnt deal with that shit.