My friends 14 yrs old daughter is left home alone all day. How is this not healty for her?
I get her at school on Tuesdays and bring her to my home when my college son is there and we play board games. She enjoys it.
Once her mother shows up she crawls in a shell. Sometimes we go to lunch (all of us) and then she says she is sick and wont eat a thing. Yet she eats at my home. Something is going on with her and her mother.
How can I help her?
Answer:
This isn't good for the because during her teen years is when she needs her mom/dad around the MOST. Teens can be really confused about things at this age. Her enjoying board games at your house shows she is willing to interact with other people, which is good. But if her mom does not start to talk and hang out with her soon, she might head into depression, and then it will be harder then ever to get her to react to anyone. get her help soon!
my guess would be that she trusts you ... i would just ask her why she doesn't like doing things around her mom or with her mom. try to take her for the night and she what happens maybe if she thinks or feel that she is gonna continue to be safe with you thenshe will open up.
good luck to the both of you
Wont eat around her mom? I was always unable to eat around my foster mom from age 12 up because she would say that I am fat or that I eat too much. Which so wasn't true I was then and still after having 2 kids I am underweight.
(If possible) try to make a little more time for her, just you and her. Without her mom, your son, whoever else around.. Just you two, because it sounds like she trusts you and in time the one on one time alone will make her open up more. Then she can tell you whats really going on.
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