Reaction to the "Cutting Edge" Programme
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janz
I also thought it was ultimately quite uplifting. Yes, the way they treated their wee girl was initially dreadful - but they were willing to change and appeared to do so.
The mother did increasingly recognise that many of the problems stemmed from her (and her childhood) and despite the pain involved, was trying to stop the cycle. I found it heart warming to see how much better she was at physical contact with her daughter at the end.
Yes, Georgina may have some long term issues to deal with as a result of 7 "wasted" years of love (or lack of it) - but at least things have improved now. The love she gave to her dollies showed that she was capable of giving love - but had just not been getting it. Hopefully, that cycle has now been broken. And she had a lovely smile when she did smile - she seemed so much happier by the end!
As someone has already commented, where was the "real" support from the specialists around them. Rather than just prescribing Ritalin and labelling the wee girl as having special needs, had anyone ever looked at the family as a whole?
I also thought here were useful lessons for us as well. Despite the fact that dh and I think we are good parents, there are times when we forget to be just as polite to ds as we expect him to be to us, or when we get annoyed without warning. We're human too and ds doesn't always know that, say, we're in a rush, or mummy's not feeling very well or whatever! So it reminded me to make that wee bit extra effort.
Ds is still a lovely, loveable, (usually) well behaved lad, who gets plenty of hugs and kisses!
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