Ask Women on Yik Yak | I found out my stepmom has only been feeding my little brother pb&js because he’s failing in school and is using this as a punishment, as well as not letting him play outside and basically no fun.. it’s been a month, should I get involved?

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I found out my stepmom has only been feeding my little brother pb&js because he’s failing in school and is using this as a punishment, as well as not letting him play outside and basically no fun.. it’s been a month, should I get involved?

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Anonymous 1w

I feel bad for dude. What tf kind of parenting is that

Anonymous 1w

Yeah that’s fucked up, definitely intervene. Kids doing poorly in school is due to a lot of factors, the minority of which are the kid just being a bad kid or not trying. Bro is probably just hungry and sad

Anonymous 1w

your dad needs to step in as well because wtf???

Anonymous 1w

If you care about your brother then yes get involved that’s abuse and she’s just evil. Any normal parent or step parent would just get their kid a tutor or some kind of help if they’re struggling. Evil parents just resort to punishing

Anonymous 1w

How old is your brother? Either way, tell an adult and get help for him. He doesn’t deserve this and she doesn’t deserve kids. He needs help, and you might be the only one who can save him.

Anonymous 1w

Yes

Anonymous 1w

100%! Adopt him, take him with you, call CPS. Something MUST BE done

Anonymous 1w

You should call CPS on her, this child is harassment if you can’t get your father involved

Anonymous 1w

100% get involved

Anonymous 1w

Honestly, call your father. When parents won’t parent their kids someone else needs to step up. Sucks it needs to be you, but I think the kid needs some TLC. Don’t threaten to call CPS over it (in the event you do need to, you don’t want to cause more problems for yourself over the backlash) but don’t hesitate to say it’s a really bad look, and if you managed to hear about it, other people are gonna hear about it and the optics on this one are ugly.

Anonymous 1w

What in the Cinderella??!? Bro, of course you gotta step in😭 Especially when it’s a STEPMOM?? Is she crazy, I’d blow my shit if some random lady my dad picked up and calls his wife/gf thinks she can do shit just cuz she’s with my dad.

Anonymous

#3 1w

He works out of state and is always gone, he kinda just lets it happen because he doesn’t want to argue.

Anonymous

#2 1w

I agree, it’s not even the worst she’s done🙄

Anonymous

OP 1w

Save my nephew asap

Anonymous

OP 1w

not to be rude, but your father has failed if he’s letting her do that. his other children should not have to step up and say something when he is the parent. i think you need to say something because she is abusing your brother and your dad needs to stop being a pussy

Anonymous

#3 1w

i also think you need to report this to your local child abuse hotline. depriving a child of food as a form of punishment is abuse and if she’s done worse, she needs to be reported

Anonymous

#3 1w

I agree.. I’m just worried what they’ll do. I have five siblings and I don’t know if they would be put into cps hands, would they start having home visits? Do you know much about the topic?

Anonymous

#4 1w

My brother literally has a IEP too😭

Anonymous

#5 1w

I only found out because my little sister called me, I’m just worried because my stepmom is super fake and can act super nice. She could pretend it was a lie and act like everything is fine.. that’s what I’m worried about

Anonymous

OP 1w

i have no idea. i’ve reported suspected child abuse before but they performed checks on the baby during daycare hours and i have not asked mom if they did home visits. i assume they would do home visits though depending on severity. in the case above, they placed a restraining order and came to the daycare to check on the baby that same day and have came back 3 times now

Anonymous

#3 1w

the child still lives with his mother but the restraining order is against his father^

Anonymous

OP 1w

Iep?

Anonymous

#4 1w

IEP (Individualized Education Plan) He’s receiving some sort of help through special ed. Could be for any kind of learning disability IE dyslexia. (I had an unnamed visual processing disorder that made it hard to copy notes off the board, because my brain would need to “shape” out each letter every time I wrote a word. Slowed me down by ALOT)

Anonymous

#9 1w

That’s fascinating! Was that something you grew out of or have you just adapted to it? Is it still unnamed?

Anonymous

#4 1w

It was only unnamed, cuz I never went for formalized neurological testing. The school just noticed I had a problem (though couldn’t diagnose me) and identified me as a candidate for accommodations due to my disability (extra time, getting to use a computer on stuff) As I grew older, computers became more accessible, and so the world kinda adapted to me. (I didn’t even bring my IEP to college and just kinda raw dogged it) Still struggle with some things, but largely doesn’t impact my day to day.

Anonymous

#9 1w

I’m just worried what he’ll do because the only way I found out was from my younger sister and she is not allowed to talk to me(because he doesn’t want me knowing how my stepmom is treating them)

Anonymous

OP 1w

If your dad doesn’t want you knowing how your stepmom is treating them, obviously there are worse things happening. You need to contact someone. Figure out a way to help them because they’ll only get hurt worse if you don’t do snuthing