Custodial Jurisdiction & Jealousy

Dear (Avoiding Lawsuits),

Thank you for your assumptions & dedication to crediting yourself for my children's successes. As we have gone down this road 3 years ago over my son, as well as the other kids I have had to remove from your care in order to advance, you are grossly wrong in your approach & desire to make their lives better.

Now you have attempted to do the same with my other two children and I thought you knew what kind of mother you are trying to compete with. You got me last week, thinking that I failed my children & through your deception, you convinced my daughter that I did not have her best of interest in heart. You made my family go through hell.

Because you were afraid of the competition I pose to you and your job, you did everything you could to tear down my budding non-profit, me as a mother, my effectiveness in the community, as well as the attacks you have put on my family in your "concern" that I do not recognize the talent my children possess. I know my children well. I know my work well. I know my community well. And for you to have been in your position as director for so long, you shouldn't need me to point out potential resources & the laws governing your profession. You should have these things already. How do I, a non-professional with no degree have a high success rate with the work we both do? Well because unlike you, I take the time to listen to the voice & concerns of others, and I am willing to work with them on their levels.

You on the other hand, think that your title gives you power and you achieve false success through deception, which explains why every family you have ever worked with has walked away from MHM. This is why your school was downgraded to a regular non-profit. This is why you have the problems you have with your employees. This is why you are always struggling to not lose your job. And yet you continue to target me & my family, to uplift your name.

When you were scrambling not to lose your job, you came to me asking to use my kids to help build your programs. They shared with you how I do it and brought you to the next level of servitude, and now you think you have legal rights to my children? You actually used my kids to build yourself & you are calling out to our mutual community to check on my family? We want NOTHING to do with you. You have bad mouthed me as a parent, to make yourself look good. I didn't ignore my children, you "needed" them to make you look good and I allowed them to go with you so they could learn from the partnerships as well as help you perform your job. I don't "neglect" my children, you changed the schedule so many times that as a single parent, I couldn't continuously change mine to accommodate yours.

And as far as the school topic goes, just because you have $25,000/year to send yours to Waldorf School, and just because you order your employees to be your personal support system to raise your kids, does not mean that my family has the same wants, needs or resources. You doubted me as a mother, as a teacher and you are afraid of me as one professional. If it weren't for the dedication of your remaining 4 staff members, you would fall on your face because let the truth be told, NOBODY wants to work for you. Those remaining in that building are there for the kids & families, to protect them from you. How do I know? Do you think after all these years, we don't talk?

What did you tell me about my son? You said that he was going to end up in jail if he did not go to Job Corps. I told you that my kids were not going there. Places like that are last resorts. So much for my kid failing, he is now in college under full scholarship. You said he'd never go anywhere unless I did what you said. Wrong again.

You now say that I don't see my daughter's potential and you have spread through our mutual community, lies about my family. On Friday, you really had me convinced I was going crazy, a bad mom and you came between me & my kids, lying to them and making them think you had the only answers to their lives.

Thank you for making my family stronger. May you reap what you have sowed as division in so many families. Now I understand what former families & former employees were trying to tell me. And to think that I was actually your friend and that you were just misunderstood..... Stop bringing my name up to other professionals. You must have thought that they didn't have my phone number or that nobody was going to call me. Thank God I didn't commit suicide over your lies. My kids would be sitting here without a mother right now and all those kids whose lives you wrecked, wouldn't have a mentor to help them piece it back together.