Stephanie Minton Professor Starr English 111 83N 27 January 2013 I am Adam Lanza’s Mother Liza Long has a horrible issue on her hands. Her 13 year old son has serious mental illness problems. The mental health problems are undiagnosed and throw him into violent rages. Long describes her day-to-day struggles with her son. Long writes “I love my son but he terrifies me.” Long’s son has threatened to kill her for wanting him to return over do library books.
[pic] MONTHLY REPORT Name: Jason Smoe Medicaid Number (ID): 70000000000000 Date of Birth: 1/29/2003 Admission Date: 6/21/2010 Period Covered: 12/21/2010-1/21/2011 Date of Report: 1/21/2011 Reason for admission: Jason Hackett was referred for intensive in-home counseling through ...due to the reports of his negative behaviors which have been displayed while in his school setting. These behaviors have caused the client to be suspended multiple times from school. The client has been verbally and at times physically aggressive with authority figures which resulted in him receiving day treatment services. The client has been displaying hyperactivity and impulsivity when in class and has also been using head banging when he is frustrated. There have been numerous reports of the client making statements about suicidal ideations and other statements regarding self harm.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
However, she was left bruised badly blistered after her male vice-principal spanked her. Taylor’s mother gave permission for her daughter’s punishment, but she did not know it would be the schools male vice- principal administering it. According to Springtown’s ISD policy, “corporal punishment shall be administered only by an employee who is the same sex as the student” (FOX NEWS). In Taylor’s case, her punishment caused injury to her body. Two days after the paddling Taylor stated that, “[she] still has welts on her today” (FOX NEWS).
She has experienced traumatic events with her husband and daughters substance abuse. In addition, she was subjected to her husband verbally abusing the children. Recently her grandson who she is raising was arrested for stealing out of the store. She has negated to follow up with the doctor to deal with her mental health and is unknown if she was given a mental health diagnoses. She has a great relationship with one of her daughters while the other child is currently incarcerated.
My book was on “A Child Called “It”—One Child’s Courage to Survive”, and I did a power point, throughout the book, Dave Pelzer narrates what he went through as a child and what struggles he faced. His mom was a hardcore alcoholic and treated Dave as the scapegoat to everything. If his mom and his dad got into an argument, she would summon Dave and release all her anger onto him. His whole entire childhood was basically what we call child labor, and with the harsh conditions Dave worked in was extremely unethical. One time while Dave was simply correcting his mom by telling her that he was at home the whole time instead of outside playing with his brothers, she took his arm and raised it over a fire—she told him to never talk back to her again
In “Fiesta, 1980,” it is clear that life for the family is anything but a fiesta. The children are traumatized by both their parents and having trouble understanding why things are the way they are in their family. According to Boyd, “when children grow up in a dysfunctional family, they experience trauma and pain from their parents’ actions, words, and attitudes”. Diaz demonstrates the trauma the children face from the perspective of an adolescent boy name Yunior. Yunior represents the trauma and pain a child can feel within a family through his experience with his father’s infidelity, inability to help his siblings, and hiding the secret of the infidelity.
According to the parents of kelly they think that his problem started when he was diagnose with a learning desability. kelly was placed in special day classes and the students from his school would start making fun of him. Kelly would not listen to his parents and he will dissaper from his house for weeks. kelly have been arrested many times and have been realas the next day. he would get drunk under the bridge with his girl friend and with his
Web. 11 June 2012. Judith Warner wrote an articled titled “Parents Created This Problem, and Must Address It,” where she tackles the continually dangerous and rising issue of students who are using drugs to make them focus in school and on school work. The drugs being abused are most commonly Ritalin and Adderall, which is medication prescribed to people with A.D.H.D., but however are being used by a countless number of students. Warner argues that this is very dangerous to kids and the pressure of parents on their kids to do well in school
Having worries, her parents take her to a therapist. But he is soon fired when he proposes that she should be put on medication. Her mom notices Phoebe’s self-destructive behavior at home, and her constantly getting into trouble at school, but she refuses to accept that there’s anything wrong with her daughter. Other than the trouble with Phoebe, her parents are also dealing with their own relationship problems. Her young sister feels jealous and left out when she watches Phoebe get all the attention from both parents.