I got a phone call about 1.30pm from one of ds1's school friends mums begging me to look after her two kids, 6 and 4 for a couple of hours.
I asked what was wrong and her stepson, 20, had taken a massive overdose and paramedics were working on him trying to revive him. The stepson lives with them and she's very close to him even though it's her partners son.
I rushed round there and the paramedics were still working on him. Everyone was distraught and the kids saw this. So I just took them back to my house. They don't know me very well, only seen me at school. It's now five o'clock and my dh took a call from her about an hour ago saying he'd died.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. Obviously I don't say anything to the children but what do I do? I'm going to make tea for them and follow our house bedtime routine and get them ready to. Is that the right things to do?
I've tried to get in touch with their mum to ask her what she want's me to do, but I haven't been able to.
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Flip · 09/10/2004 17:04
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