>> I understand she's exhausted, but ffs: Flip has been almost pathologically good and helpful ever since the accident. She couldn't at least give him a chance to explain? <<
That's exactly why this went so far wrong. Flip's mom is used to him being the "little man" that he put up as a front after the accident. He's quiet and affable by nature, so it was easy for her to rely on that and forget that he's still a child. She was completely blindsided by him getting into this kind of trouble, and she did not have the resources to deal with it very well at the time. She was digging spoons out of bedrock just to not scream or hit him.
The really sad part is that bruises would've healed a lot faster than locking a traumatized hearing-dominant child in his room for hours on end. Phil never really got over that.
>> I always hate it when people do that, especially to helpless children dependent on them. <<
Agreed. But even loving parents don't always have the resources to get things right.
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Date: 2014-06-20 06:07 am (UTC)That's exactly why this went so far wrong. Flip's mom is used to him being the "little man" that he put up as a front after the accident. He's quiet and affable by nature, so it was easy for her to rely on that and forget that he's still a child. She was completely blindsided by him getting into this kind of trouble, and she did not have the resources to deal with it very well at the time. She was digging spoons out of bedrock just to not scream or hit him.
The really sad part is that bruises would've healed a lot faster than locking a traumatized hearing-dominant child in his room for hours on end. Phil never really got over that.
>> I always hate it when people do that, especially to helpless children dependent on them. <<
Agreed. But even loving parents don't always have the resources to get things right.