Last night while I was participating in my online tax class, SD15 B/M approached me with an emergency "I need your help request". It was her friend (a girl) and she was sobbing on the phone and having issues with her bio mother.

I dropped the call, but stayed logged into the lecture. What are you going to do? Im hardwired that way. A kiddo needs me, I come running. Well it was more like a stroll...

The situation was SD15 (yes shes back to munchkin for now...) has a friend we will call "G". This girl is also 15. And she was sobbing her little heart out.

I put on my calm voice asking whats going on...

G: mother is "sooooooo mean and yellllllllllssssss at her allllllll the time!!!!!"

I ask does she have her father in the picture? 

G: "noooooo hes in another state and anyway he just give me alcoholllll"

I tell her alcohol destroys young brains, she should just say no....(look at me hahaa) I ask about her stepfather, is there issues with the relationship because sometimes parents get mad at something over here and take it over there...

G: "nooooo hes away all week, he drives trucks....they seem ok when he calls"

So, what is the arguments where your mom gets mad?

G: "she gives me allllll theeeeeese chores!!! Theres so many!!!!!! I sometimes forget them, or how to do them!!!!"

It went on, but I basically told her if things get physical her options are to tell a teacher who has to report it. Or a family member like a grand or aunt/uncle, maybe she can talk to them...

I suggested she sit her mother down and talk to her about things, tell her when shes calm how she feels, which will shock her mother because kids never do that...ask her mother to please write a chore chart. G said there is a large whiteboard she just forgets HOW to do the things and then the mother gets mad...

Apparently her mother is very "specific" about how she wants things done, she doesnt work, and she drinks a lot and gets angry. And sometimes gives her kids alcohol. She has parental controls on the kids phones and she treats her younger brother the same with the same expectations (hes about 12-13)

Should I report this? The childs fears are one thing, the alcohol is another, and I just have her word on things, plus the child fears repercussions the most. She has no where else to go, because we all know the courts will not take her away from the mother on basic heresay.

She did feel better before I got off the phone. 

I guess SD15 is "farming me out" to her friends because I did such a good job drying HER tears many many many times. For a kid that has 1 chore...and does nothing to clean the rest of the house, she definitely has it better than "G". I had to chuckle to myself. And then there is Feral Forger sitting there complaining about all her "problems". Egads

But I enjoyed my class after that...