Storey became an unbearable sod just four days ago. She holed herself up on the third level of an indoor playgym and bashed anyone who happened to wander past. Failing to realise that the corner she’d chosen to hide from everyone in, happened to be a major traffic junction. I’m surprised she wasn’t smacked out by a couple of other kids. I climbed in and up and around, (it felt like I was at boot camp) and calmed her with my silky scarf before flashing my underwear at everyone in the vicinity.. since.. those things aren’t made for adult woman in a skirt.
Storey has never been so violent.
She then spent two days with her father. Because that’s the usual routine. I told him about it, and his response…
“She doesn’t behave that way with me.”
Now the good part…
“Maybe Ian could talk to her? She likes him.”
I thought, considering she’s YOUR biological child that you would like to talk to her? By the way, Congratulations on your promotion to “Dad”, Ian!
Nathan is in the middle of moving house into a tiny shoebox split level gallery thing. Gallery implies some posh modern minimalistic thing. No. It’s a falling down section of an old timber house. The owners have taken one large old house, built walls to segment it into several tiny boudoirs and leased them to idiots. Usually idiots without kids, but we’re dealing with a special case here.
I have mentioned it to Mediation, but now must wait until he has had his little visits before we have a joined visit. Sigh. I want to change rules so that if the girls don’t want to go to dad’s, they don’t have to. The mediator, who is in no way a qualified psychologist, thinks that’s a bad idea. But at the mention of his actual diagnosis (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) she placed her pen and paper down and became completely attentive. With his consent, we hope to have the children interviewed by a child psychiatrist in association with the mediation centre, to see how the girls are coping. As I don’t know what happens at dad’s.. but knowing the nature of potential abuse… sigh. It’s a difficult area. I want the kids to know their father.. and be able to come to their own conclusion about him. But I don’t want them to be treated the way I was by him, either.
Back to Storey.
We will get some help via a referral from our GP. Since I can’t take her anywhere else without her father’s consent. I can at least access the Medicare Mental Health plan thingo for everyone in Australia without him, and maybe she and I and her sister can learn some better skills to cope with each other. By which I mean.... to cope with Storey.
-SP
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