Growing up as a family and the future

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OK, new topic.

We were at a bon fire and a sister of my sister in law says to us,

" Can you see in a group home in the future? "

Well, all I had to do to my husband was tap him on the head and a

litany of curse words would probably spew out of his mouth. The look

in his eye told me so.

I decided to take this one and handle this question.

I told her that we would make decisions for as the appropriate

time arises. After all we need to make sure that ' older

brother and sister are properly grown and leave our nest as

responsible young adults and citizens. ' sister is 18 and

' brother is 21.

They both need to finish college and find a healthy path in life for

themselves. We are still as parents learning how to help them along

with in this process.

So I told this sister of my sister-in-law, as we allow and they

choose to leave the nest we will then investigate opportunities for

our son and his independence as the time arises.

I guess I just dislike when people have narrow thoughts about group

homes and preconceived predjudices for parents of a 15 year old and

what we should probably be thinking about for our disabled son.

Any thoughts?

By the way, the sister of the sister-in-law is a social worker in

land and probably knows just enough to say something stupid

around someone like me.

Sarno