I’m hoping someone can help; give advice because I don’t know what to do. See, one of the children I’m caring for while her family is without a place to live is having a really hard time. She’s nine, and was the one trapped in the fire that destroyed her family’s home.
She’s acting out violently. I can’t imagine the fear she felt trapped in that fire before a fireman found her. I think it could be PTSD but I’m not familiar with it in a practical sense.
When things don’t go as she expects, she has meltdowns and it’s not a spoiled-kid meltdown. She hits, kicks, throws things, she cries so much she can’t breath; today, she bit me so hard I thought I’d need stitches (thankfully I didn’t).
I feel lost, so bad and guilty that I’m not helping her at all. I know getting her back with her parents, in a new place will help tremendously but I can’t seem to raise the last $150 for their housing needed and I don’t know what else I can do.
Can someone give me advice on how I may help her while I keep trying anything possible to get her in her home, with her parents?
The guilt is overwhelming, the anxiety it’s causing not only on me but her siblings is terrible.
