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Post by psychoseal on Jan 3, 2011 21:57:59 GMT -5
Having been the victim of a cat-napping i had to vote for kerry... im sorry but what kind of person would kidnap someones pet, and after knowing how upset the owner was and how it was affecting her own brothers health - NOT return it??
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 3, 2011 22:42:14 GMT -5
I could see a little kid doing that and not getting why it would affect the other person, though, especially if they're angry or want revenge or whatever. Most of them aren't exactly sensitive to others' needs/feelings.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 4, 2011 11:00:43 GMT -5
It's a difficult choice since you could make a case for a lot of them. But I picked Sean Addison. He set fires and his parents dumped him over at Claudia's at Claudia and the Sad Goodbye.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 4, 2011 13:39:37 GMT -5
With Kerry and Tigger, she thought Mary Anne wasn't doing a good job taking care of him because she (Kerry) found him running around outside by himself. I guess she didn't feel like Mary Anne was a good mommy and therefore didn't feel guilty about taking Tigger (and making him live in a box in a dark closet ).
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Post by Honeybee on Oct 9, 2013 22:45:46 GMT -5
I'm not sure, cause I haven't half of these clients names. So, I don't know, who need counseling or therapy.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 11, 2013 13:19:31 GMT -5
I think a lot of them just needed better/more attentive parents. Therapy will only get you so far when you're a kid still going back to the same environment every night.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 11, 2013 15:03:07 GMT -5
^Thank you, Sparklymouse very much for saying that. Talking with a counselor or teacher or whoever can be a wonderful thing. Any adult who truly listens to a child and helps them realize how wonderful and valuable they are,I truly thank. I will also share that I do know what it's like to be a kid where all the talking in the world didn't make one bit of difference because no one wanted to hear or get truly involved. In the case of Stoneybrook with the exception of Mr. Nicholls and in a different way Patrick, a lot of the other parents I think just needed to remember their kids were still kids even if they do also catch criminals.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 10, 2014 3:17:43 GMT -5
Why would anyone choose Megan? It wasn't her that needed the therapy, was it? I thought she was just framed by her brother and accepted it because she was scared he'd run away if she told the truth about it. I personally think that pre "Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street", Rosie Wilder would benefit from therapy. Her parents were putting way too much pressure on her and she should have had someone to talk to about it. Not to mention that the kids at her school were mean to her, too. I don't think Kerry was really in need of therapy, even in light of her catnapping Tigger. In fact, I'd think that kid with the ransom is more in need of therapy than her. Kerry theorized that Mary Anne wasn't taking good enough care of Tigger and tried to take good care of him herself, and that kid with the ransom was out for himself only.
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Post by greer on Jun 11, 2014 4:45:29 GMT -5
^Megan is pretty codependent.
The Bruno family dynamic is pretty messed up. Kerry would definitely need therapy as an adult, and the fact that she resorted to stealing a kitten to get some love speaks for itself.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Dec 9, 2015 15:49:47 GMT -5
Sean Addison, the book burning had to be the start of it all.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Sept 14, 2016 20:57:31 GMT -5
I picked Lou. She was a terror in "Kristy and the Worst Kid Ever." Just reread this and changed my vote. I think Lou actually had more problems in "Abby and the Best Kid Ever", living in total fear of being sent away for not being perfect. She didn't seem like a kid at all there, which was pretty sad. She was disruptive in her first appearance, but I don't think she was necessarily the Worst Kid Ever, even back then. There's actually a lot of books similar to "Abby and the Best Kid Ever". There used to be a kids' series written by Jean Ure called the "Foster Family" series. It's out of print now, but I think you can still find some of the books on Amazon. Anyway, the first one was called "My Sister Sam" and it centered around Sam, who was a bank robber's daughter and had been in several foster homes. She'd been sent away from all of them, so when she was sent to yet another long-term foster home, she acted in a certain way. Abi, the daughter of the family, immediately became best friends with her, but Sam, thinking she was going to get sent away sooner or later, kept getting in major trouble, the last straw being trying to take the car out (she's about ten or eleven). She eventually calmed down when the family got her a pet dog, which convinced her that they considered her part of the family. If you can find the series and don't mind reading kids' books, I really recommend taking a look at it. The other books are called "Meet the Radish" (featuring a six-year-old foster child who's very shy and scared of everything), "Here Comes Ellen" (featuring an older girl with some kind of autism or Asperger's Syndrome or something), "Secret Simon" (featuring a young teen who later on turns out to be blackmailing the six-year-old), "Babycakes" (featuring a girl who is kind of a compulsive liar and boaster), and "Little Miss Perfect" (where it's Abi, the real daughter, who has the problem when she is constantly upstaged by the perfect child).
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Post by booklover85 on Feb 14, 2017 16:09:52 GMT -5
Norman Hill definitely needs help (not to mention a new family) due the psychological damage his family had caused him regarding his weight and eating habits.
Kerry Bruno is another kid who needs therapy very badly. Kidnapping a cat, writing nasty letters and keeping him locked up in the closet isn't exactly a sound individual.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Mar 8, 2017 3:07:18 GMT -5
Norman Hill definitely needs help (not to mention a new family) due the psychological damage his family had caused him regarding his weight and eating habits. Kerry Bruno is another kid who needs therapy very badly. Kidnapping a cat, writing nasty letters and keeping him locked up in the closet isn't exactly a sound individual. True about Norman. But he got better after "Dawn's Big Date". I think Norman was down on himself, and once he showed self-respect by tearing up the pictures Sarah drew and then told his parents how mad their focus on his weight was, things got better. He said that his parents hadn't mentioned his weight although his mom had stopped buying treat foods, Sarah had been nicer to him, and he even sent a picture of himself to his pen pal, something he'd been too afraid of before. Norman may need to lose some weight, but I think his family listened to him. The last time he was in the series that I remember was "The Fire At Mary Anne's House", when he said he was glad that Kristy gave him a snack of carrot sticks last time she babysat, even though he begged for cookies. As for Kerry, as a lot of others had said, she's nine years old, desperately wants a pet of her own and kidnapped Tigger because A: She found him wandering around an unfenced garden, and B: She thought that if Mary Anne let him do that, she wasn't taking good enough care of him. And what letters? She didn't do that. Her reason for keeping Tigger in the closet was because she was trying to prove Hunter's allergies wouldn't act up if Tigger was kept away from him. Kerry doesn't need therapy - she probably just needs something to care for.
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Post by mallorypike on Mar 8, 2017 23:01:49 GMT -5
I voted for Sean Addison. He has many issues and he actually tried to burn down a library in one of the books! I don't think therapy would resolve those issues he has, anyway. I considered voting for Norman Hill. His weight problems itself lowers his self-esteem, but because of his family, he has even lower self-esteem and I think they could cause psychological problems for him. Sarah, his sister, definitely messed him up! However, I don't think he REALLY needs therapy. A good friend or one of the babysitters could listen to him and help him through those issues.
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