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- Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
- Theme: Family & Friends
- Subject: Aging / Maturity
- Published: 01/26/2021
A Grown Child
Born 2005, F, from Bremen,kentucky, United StatesOne day after my granny passed away my mom and my step-dad steven had hit rock bottom. i had never thought that people you loved and cared about so much just could up and leave you like that. i know for a good 6 months i was torn about it. i was only 8 years old. i watched her take her last breath. my step-dad already hit rock bottom but it was worse now that my granny passed away. mom did not know what to do....so she did drugs. i had to learn how to cook, clean, change diapers, make dinner for my mom and step-dad. it was like i was the parent. oh boy! did i hate it. And my parents never left their room. like a depressed child. i witnessed men running in and out of our house. and i had to steal just to feed my 2 year old baby sister, my 5 year old sister, and my 6 year old brother. i had to make it on my own. i had to steal some money just to hire a babysitter for my 2 year old sister, just so me and my other sister and my brother could go to school and go home and clean the house. I would often take my sibling to my room and move the living room TV into my room so we could watch movies and hangout. me and my siblings were close and i do not think we could get any closer than that. then my brother moved away to his grandparents, and my mom and step-dad went to jail, and me and my siblings went to foster care. i hated that place and never again will i go there. i refuse. it is rough. i was only there for about 4 months and the whole 4 months i never saw my baby sister. then we moved to my aunties house and we stayed there for about 1 year and my sister left to move in with her dad, and me and my baby sister were at my aunties. then i moved in with my bio-dad i never even met before. and then my mom got clean. been clean for 3 years. and my baby sister is 6, and my other sister is 12, my brother is 13, i'm 15 about to be 16, and i have a new baby sister, her name is kendall and she is 5 months old. and i now get to see my mom every weekend and we now do fun stuff like go to the park or go shopping or getting our nails done and its fun to have my family back.......the picture i am about to insert is a baby picture of me, my 12 year old sister and my 13 year old brother.
A Grown Child(Hailey Grace McCuiston) One day after my granny passed away my mom and my step-dad steven had hit rock bottom. i had never thought that people you loved and cared about so much just could up and leave you like that. i know for a good 6 months i was torn about it. i was only 8 years old. i watched her take her last breath. my step-dad already hit rock bottom but it was worse now that my granny passed away. mom did not know what to do....so she did drugs. i had to learn how to cook, clean, change diapers, make dinner for my mom and step-dad. it was like i was the parent. oh boy! did i hate it. And my parents never left their room. like a depressed child. i witnessed men running in and out of our house. and i had to steal just to feed my 2 year old baby sister, my 5 year old sister, and my 6 year old brother. i had to make it on my own. i had to steal some money just to hire a babysitter for my 2 year old sister, just so me and my other sister and my brother could go to school and go home and clean the house. I would often take my sibling to my room and move the living room TV into my room so we could watch movies and hangout. me and my siblings were close and i do not think we could get any closer than that. then my brother moved away to his grandparents, and my mom and step-dad went to jail, and me and my siblings went to foster care. i hated that place and never again will i go there. i refuse. it is rough. i was only there for about 4 months and the whole 4 months i never saw my baby sister. then we moved to my aunties house and we stayed there for about 1 year and my sister left to move in with her dad, and me and my baby sister were at my aunties. then i moved in with my bio-dad i never even met before. and then my mom got clean. been clean for 3 years. and my baby sister is 6, and my other sister is 12, my brother is 13, i'm 15 about to be 16, and i have a new baby sister, her name is kendall and she is 5 months old. and i now get to see my mom every weekend and we now do fun stuff like go to the park or go shopping or getting our nails done and its fun to have my family back.......the picture i am about to insert is a baby picture of me, my 12 year old sister and my 13 year old brother.
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Glory
07/14/2021Wow you've been through a lot and I'm glad that things got better. I can relate with the title of your story because I feel like that I was a grown child too because I had to take care of my own lil brother at the age of 7 till he got more indipendent. I had to take him home from school and give him food and bath him. I had to do all of this because my parents were out almost all day because of work
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Hailey Grace McCuiston
11/17/2021thank you so much, this really means alot too my i understand where you are coming from also.
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Mary Eileen Callan
01/27/2021You have gone through enough for a lifetime. Now maybe you can be a 16 year old instead of a parent. Thanks for sharing your hard time with the readers here,
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JD
01/26/2021I'm so sorry you and your family had to go through all that trauma, Haleigh. But I'm glad you got through it and that things are better now. Thank you for sharing your story so that others who are going through hard times can see that there is hope.
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