I have a ‘child’ the same age as Isabelle. They finished school then did a college course while working part time in a supermarket. They passed their drivers test at 18. They then moved to university halls and started their degree. Now they share a house with 5 girls, they’re in the 2nd year of uni and work 20 hours a week at a great shop. They are also part of a sports team and have another hobby (trying to be careful with private info!). I personally think my child is fairly typical and ordinary. They have qualifications from school and college and are halfway through a degree, plus a drivers licence. They have friends from our family but also school, college, both jobs, uni and sports & hobbies. When you actually think about it, what they’ve reduced Isabelle’s life to is criminal
All very normal and healthy and it makes us proud
My newly 17 year old daughter just left school may.
Working 10hr weekends.
In college studying nursing
And working 1 day as a student nurse.
She starts driving lessons on Friday.
She's constantly out with friends or her boyfriend.
And just booked a holiday for her and her fella for summer next year.
What gets Me is My daughter is more than 2 years younger and watching izzy is like watching 12 year old.
Now there's a home girl and then there is izzy.
A home girls loves home and routine.
There is no routine and no home with the inghams so I can say for a fact this girl has been brainwashed (all the stalker stories) into thinking she needs mummy and daddy.
But reality is, is they need her.
She has been robbed of childhood
Money
Friends
Relationships
Teenager years
Education
Health
Sexualality
And izzy can say she isn't all she likes but one day either when her parents are broke or die, she will have no choice but to pull up her big girl panties and get on with it.
But it's going to be much much harder been thrown into it rather than slowly be shown how the world works.
I was once told this ... (non vulnerable children)
Your child should know how to adult by 18 (with mistakes) especially in uk as our drinking age is much lower than America.
If your child can't grasp the basics like been independent by 18 you have failed.
I'm in a few parenting groups on Facebook and some parents won't let their kids out unsupervised age 16/17/18 for no other reason than their own anxieties or controlling,and it's very alarming.
Some Evan come back a few years later and moan their adult children won't work but lots wonder why their child walks out and goes no contact.
I'm no perfect parent and my children are far from perfect but I would say we're pretty average, but best of all is that I'm watching my children flourish on their own two feet.
Izzy looks odd and now esme is following same pattern it looks weird AF.
Need the money makers tho because little ones are not pulling money in.
. The older girls would have loved the big rides and the younger ones would have LOVED the fairytale forest. The Ifam would have loved to have seen somewhere new. But the Ingrams probably would have made it look really boring anyway.
. I imagine most tattlers despair of the gruesome twosome and the fiasco they put their kids through. The real meaning of Christmas for many is diminished by rampant commercialism and indulgence. Few take it to the level of these clowns. When will the bloody elves rock up? Surely they want to go to Disney. I can’t wait for all the cheap trees and home bargains baubles to make their appearance.
