This week’s OK! Magazine has a new interview with a woman who cared for Farrah on Teen Mom’s 22 month-old daughter, Sophia. According to this babysitter, Sophia is worryingly behind on her major milestones, suggesting parental neglect. Now we know that Farrah isn’t the best mom, and we saw little Sophia fall off a bed when she left her alone. We’ve also seen Farrah yell at Sophia for crying and then turn off the light and leave the little girl in a dark room alone instead of comforting her. It’s troubling, and Farrah could definitely use some parenting classes because she doesn’t seem to have a mother’s instinct. Is she neglecting little Sophia, though? At least one babysitter seems to think so:
Farrah gets free childcare from the state while she attends class and works her restaurant job, a benefit the Teen Mom star has taken full advantage of.
“Farrah tended to leave Sophia with strangers a lot,” Brittney Scheer, a licensed childcare provider in Council Bluffs, Iowa, who looked after the tot for 9 months, tells OK! exclusively.
A second caregiver adds: “The first time I met Farrah, she showed me the diaper bag and went out the door.”
Brittney tells OK!: “I’d have Sophia virtually all day, every day. Farrah left the baby with me to run errands and shoot MTV — and sometimes she’d forget to come get her.”
Both Brittney and her co-worker say that Sophia’s development is worryingly slow, a possible symptom of Farrah’s hands-off parenting.
“She wouldn’t play or engage with other kids,” Brittney says. “She’d cry and hyperventilate if I put her down. She could stand, but she couldn’t walk. My own child is about the same age and he’s running around.”
But that’s not the worst of it.
“I haven’t heard her say one word,” notes the second caregiver.
Brittney couldn’t stand idly by while Sophia suffered. “I reported to the state that Sophia wore filthy clothes, and that when I’d visit her home, there’d be dirty diapers everywhere and no crib,” adds Brittney, who says she stopped working with Farrah out of frustration. “Whenever I addressed her parenting skills, she’d get mad and say she’s a great mom.”
Brittney isn’t the only one worried about Sophia’s developmental delays. According to child psychologist Dr. Michele Borba, these are “red flags” that something is seriously wrong.
“Number one is no language,” Dr. Borba (who has not treated Sophia) tells OK!. “Number two is the constant need to be held. Number three: Socialization should be setting in. And number four: She, clearly, should be walking.”
The problems could be neurologically or environmentally based, explains Dr. Borba. She advises that Farrah should “get the advice of a trained professional — ASAP. Do not wait: Go immediately to a pediatrician.”
[From OK! Magazine]
Farrah’s mom is an abusive, manipulative piece of work but at least she loves her granddaughter and dotes on her, as annoying as her constant babytalk is to the audience. While we know that Farrah isn’t the best mom, it might not be her fault that Sophia is behind. She definitely needs to get some professional advice. It’s not normal that a child isn’t talking or walking at nearly two years old. If Sophia has developmental delays it’s that much more important that Farrah give her the care and attention she needs.
Photos via MTV, where you can watch full episodes of Teen Mom if you’re in the US.
This is super sad news….for some reason though I didn’t realize how old Sophia is. Maybe it’s because she hasn’t hit her milestones, because thinking about she IS the same age as Bentley and Leah.
wow, i never really liked farrah, but after she moved out on her own and started attempting to support herself and sophia, i gained a lot of respect. i work with kids full-time and i’m getting a degree in child development, and now that i think about it, sophia is way behind. she should be toddling around and talking nonsense by now, not sitting placidly by her mom on the couch while farrah talks on the phone, or crying until someone gives her a pacifier. to contrast this, maci’s been trying as hard as she can to wean bentley from his pacifier. get it together, farrah, for real.
I hope this isn’t true, but this should really be looked into immediately before things might get worse.
I agree. It sounds like Farrah isn’t willing or able to give this child what she needs. Even an attentive and loving mother needs professional help if her child is not meeting developmental milestones. Throw in a mother who could care less? Very sad for the child.
I don’t watch the show, so can’t really comment. Except to say that I have a 16-month-old who has been walking for 4 months, is really starting to become interested in socializing with other kids, and has about a 30-word vocabulary (and a much larger passive vocab–i.e. words he understands but doesn’t say). And my kid is definitely right in the middle, totally average for his age, not at all super-duper advanced. So if this poor kid is nearly two and is hardly speaking, not walking, hates to be put down, and does not want to interact with other kids, that’s a very bad sign. Poor thing. I hate the thought that this little girl is suffering because her mother is a stupid, selfish beeyotch. I get that it’s hard to balance work + childcare + personal life, but many women do it every day without neglecting their kids!
If Sophia was left in childcare for long periods like the women said then why didn’t they work on developmental things during the day? If Sophia was there for 9 months it also says something about the childcare provider.
When my son went to childcare his provider worked with him on crawling, then walking, talking (she even taught him Spanish phrases), then potty training.
And what provider talks about a former client?? Including saying they called CPS?
Sophia is 22 months now, it doesn’t say what age she was when these women watched her. Also during the last season of Teen Mom Farrah said she no longer qualified for state funded childcare and I remember hearing Sophia talk (not much but she said a few words here and there). These women clearly have an agenda, they are getting paid for an interview. Of course they are going to play it up b/c who is going to pay if they said “things were fine”.
(I’m not a fan of Farrah. I do think she could use some parenting classes and she seems very spoiled and entitled.)
She was definitely walking in season 2 of the show
Because I’ve been around babies my entire life I can tell you from experience that ALL babies develop differently and it does not mean that anything is wrong. My two year old nephew barely talks but there is nothing developmentally wrong with him, on the other hand, my other 18 month old nephew has a vocabulary of an almost 3 year old, that doesn’t mean he’s a genius.
Children should not be judged or even graded unless there is something obviously wrong with them until it comes time for preschool or kindergarten. I’ve never seen a child in a regular class that can’t communicate or function.
Basically what I’m saying is there is nothing wrong with Sophia. From everything I’ve seen her development is just fine, she has fine motor skills and the shows we’ve seen so far she’s only a year old. Yes sometimes her mother can be neglectful but she is a very good mom for a young single woman.
And putting a child in their crib and walking away is sometimes the only thing you can do. When you’re overwhelmed you should put your child in a safe place and walk away until you’re calm.
farrah did the best she could with what she had to work with @ the time.
this speaks more to her caregivers than to her since they had sophia the majority of the time.
bet sophia will be right on track next season.
Sounds like a form of Autism maybe.
I have to agree with the people who think that Sophia is fine. Children develop at different rates and if she was neglected into delays… then what about the accusation that she was always in daycare? That doesnt make a whole lot of sense. Just because someone isnt always the “ideal” or fit the standard doesnt mean they are abusive. There is an element of real life here that people need to remember and not just apply what they see on tv to philosophical discussions.
and herein lies the problem with creating “celebrities” out of woefully underprepared young mothers – show me a kid out there who wouldn’t be distracted from the full-time parenting job when there are cameras around and people magazine interviews and more coverage for more drama…..stop with the magazine covers, stop positing these girls as celebs, stop validating/glamorizing/valorizing the sort of behavior that reinforces poor parenting….get the moms back on track with the kids….before more 16 year-olds think “reality tv show” when they find out they’re knocked up rather than “soberingly life changing situation.”
OK, I don’t watch the show, so I’ll try not to specifically comment on this particular girl. BUT, a couple posts above really rubbed me the wrong way. People who give the parent a pass and blame it on the caregiver are all kinds of wrong. It takes a village and all that, yeah yeah yeah. But the PARENT has the primary responsibility of raising and teaching their child!
@Jacquie: Waiting until pre-school or kindergarten is WAY too late for a child to be evaluated for developmental and learning milestones. The majority of a child’s brain development happens in the first 3 years–if they’re not being stimulated then you run the risk of them having difficulty learning for their entire life. At each well-child checkup the parent should be filling out a questionaire on the child’s milestones so the pediatrician knows if there’s a potential issue. But if the parent is neglectful she sadly may not be able to answer these questions honestly, so the problem (if there is one) may go unrecognized. And, you’re kinda right about putting a child down when you’re frustrated–there’s a big difference between putting your child in her crib because she’s screaming and fussy and you’re frustrated, and putting them alone in a dark unstimulating environment because you’re irritated and wanna talk on the phone or watch tv.
I could also give a crap if she’s a ‘young mom’ and people giving her yet another excuse for being a crappy parent. I know plenty of young moms who are great parents (I also know older parents who suck, sadly). If you don’t want to put the hard work into being a parent, then DON’T HAVE KIDS. Young or not–no excuse for not being a good mom. How is a mom who is “sometimes neglectful” (especially on camera!) a “very good mom”??
22 months to not be walking is very late.
My oldest two children said “mama” at 8 months and both walked at 10 months. By the time my oldest son was 2 years old, he had quite the impressive vocabulary. My second oldest was reading and writing at 4.
By contrast, my youngest walked at 8 months, and my Mom says he speaks his own language (which sometimes babies do). Mind you, he understands us perfectly: he points at words we say to him (i.e. “cup”, “cuddly”, “Bear-bear”, etc…). He also waves, gives kisses, gives high fives, plays ball, is “soft to the kitty”, “reads” his books, and knows what I mean when I say “let’s check your bum; clean your face; wash your hands” etc…and he just turned 17 months.
It all depends on how much effort you put into raising your child. Everything else takes a back-seat. That’s the bottom line. Teenagers aren’t always prepared, but I had my oldest when I was 19, and he was my world.
I didn’t walk until I was 2 and a half, but I was advanced in my verbal and social skills. I was however a premature baby, and smaller then normal. So as some people are saying, kids may reach milestones at different times – but end up being entirely fine when they are adults.
Also, why wouldn’t the childcare provider help Sophia develope the essential skills if she had her so often, and was worried she was behind? My 2 year nephew was slightly behind in verbal skills, and when he started going to a childcare provider, she gave lots of ideas to my sister on how to encourage him to talk. Plus she worked with him daily, and now at 2 and a half – he is talking much better!
Scarlet Vixen – I agree with everything you wrote!!
Pisses me off that she even ever qualified for state-funded childcare. Don’t have babies if you can’t afford daycare. It isn’t fair these dumb idiots get free handouts while the rest of us have to use our brains when it comes to pro-creating.
@ bellaluna, YES its totally the effort you put into raising them.
Before my child was born I poured over child rearing books, websites, went to classes on how to interact and choose a pediatrician, cpr classes, investigating the best personal care products, ate a strict organic diet, stayed away from foods i loved because i was dedicated to his development. After he was born, I was careful with his napping so that he could develop a schedule that was good for him and me, limited the paci, handmade ALL his food, read to him constantly even as an infant. People laughed at me told me i was insane, but for me it was physically doing everything in my control to give him a good life. But i am nearly a decade older than Farrah, I am not sure how i would have fared as a younger mom.
I am not saying lets give her a pass because she is young. i am just not sure that she has gotten the message that its not just about her anymore, its about making the best possible life for Sophia and that includes social and emotional development.
Whose property is this show Teen Mom? They should be SUED in COURT for employing this young woman, exploiting her real world struggle, and then turn her CHILDCARE over to a state-funded entity.
MTV has been a plague on society since it stopped airing music videos in the mid-80s. MTV DESTROYS the minds of our youth. Now, apparently, they have uped their game by ACTUALLY destroying a young woman’s most important job–bonding appropriately with her infant and ensuring that infant’s safety and protection. Especially from TV enterprises, including a TV camera, which belong no place in an infant/childmother’s life.
SHAME ON MTV AND TEEN MOM
@Scarlet Vixen I’m not giving the mom a pass, just commenting on how odd the childcare providers interview was. Licensed childcare providers are usually trained to help their ‘charges’ develop (through activities, etc).
Plus everyone keeps saying Sophia isn’t walking at 22 months, but she was much younger when Season 2 was taped so we don’t know how old she was when this person(s) watched her for 9 months. On Season 2, if I remember correctly, Sophia was saying words.
Also it isn’t unusual for kids to be one way at daycare or school and another at home. When my son was little he would only walk for me for a long time. He wouldn’t walk at his dad’s or at daycare. He was also very quiet in public (still is).
“It all depends on how much effort you put into raising your child.”
It also depends on the child. My 2 1/2 yo still talks mostly jibberish, but she doesn’t really need to talk. She learned early on that her siblings will do everything for her. All my other kids were talking full sentences by 12-18 months. My 3rd child didn’t walk alot at home until at least 2 b/c her brothers would carry her around and cater to her.
I actually feel sorry for Farrah. Her mother is abusive, the father of her child died in a car accident before Sophia was born, which is pretty traumatic, and she is a kid herself. This show is supposed to be a cautionary tale. Babies aren’t fun things that you get to dress in cute clothes and they will love you, filling some void in your life. I’m glad she is going to school to make something better of herself and she has to work because I don’t think MTV really pays these girls. Does anyone know if they do?
Whenever I see Gary and Amber carry around Leah it makes me cringe. They still have her in a bucket car seat. My kid moved out of that when she was 5 months old because she was too tall for it. Leah is over 1 at least and should be in an appropriate car seat. I realize that is the least of their problems but they are really putting their kid at risk by not securing her properly.
This show is supposed to be a cautionary tale. Babies are hard work. You lose your childhood. You don’t get to party anymore. Your job in life is taking care of your child, making sure she is loved and thriving. My hope is kids see this show and realize they need to do whatever it takes not to get knocked up. That way, you can live your life, go to college, enjoy a career, become a full person who is financially stable then you can consider having a kid.
I’m so glad my magazine subscriptions all ran out before the “Teen Mom” craze hit.
not to be a total wanker, but in looking at Sophia and her expressions, if there really is a developmental lag, i am guessing it’s something more like autism etc vs environmental.
just thinking outloud too, but we all do see Farrah struggles a bit in assuming her mothering responsablities. she is trying though it seems, so kudos to her. if Sophia does have developmental issues, i have sympathy for Farrah, since it’s an extra layer of parenting responsability.
also just wondering : maybe Farrah gets the free govt daycare b/c of Sophia’s (presumed) disability ??
There just so happens to be a Teen Mom Unseen Moments show on MTV right now.
I’ve watched Teen Mom since the 1st season, and I’ve always disliked Farrah. She’s spoiled, self-entitled, lazy and a bad mother.
This particular show just proves it even more.
My favorite Sophia moment is when Farrah left her in the sink with the water running and left the room.
Seems like Bentley is the only one that might grow up relatively normal…as long as Ryan doesn’t drop him again.
I bet this is exaggerated and/or the story is being vague on the timing of when this care was delivered, in order to up the drama.
I’m not a fan of Farrah, however.
@ Relli – I made/make all of my children’s baby food, whether I was 19 or now (and I am 40). I keep up on safety regulations re: carseats, safety regs, CPR, etc… It depends on your priorities, as you and I agree.
If “16 & Pregnant” was TRULY a “cautionary tale”, there would never have been a Season 2. These girls don’t seem to understand the basic facts: From the time you find out you are pregnant, YOU. ARE. A. MOM. The little boys who impregnate you do not understand the concept of a baby UNTIL THE BABY IS HERE, PERIOD; AND SOMETIMES NOT EVEN AFTER THAT.
GROW UP, STUPID TEENS!! If I hear “If I had known he’d have acted like this, I never would have lost my virginity to him” ONE MORE TIME…
@ bellaluna:
“If I had known he’d have acted like this, I never would have lost my virginity to him” ONE MORE TIME…
They are just kids! They tend not think about the future and assume their invincible! Part of being young is lacking life experience to know better!
What kids need are responsible adults in their lives who do not allow sleep overs (did anyone see the episode with the trailer trash car racers who were fine with their 16 year old getting married?), or stay out with boys unattended.
I understand there are PLENTY of opportunities for kids to hook up anyway, but generally if you are involved in your kids’ lives and educate them about sex this won’t happen. There are always exceptions to the rule, but with involved parents the chances of teen pregnancy drops.
Farrah’s mama should have put her foot in her a** years ago! Maybe she wouldn’t be the spoiled brat of a mother she is now. The show itself is a bunch of crap! That’s NOT reality.
@ Iggles – While I agree with you about kids believing they are invincible, NOT EVERY TEEN IS THAT NAIVE. I did not have unprotected sex as a teenager UNTIL I was in an abusive relationship and had no choice. I had the simple intelligence to use protection or not have sex until I’d graduated from high school. It’s not rocket science; use protection or face the consequences, period.
And if/when you end up pregnant, shut up your whining and raise your child the right way. You gave up your right to a social life when you decided to f*ck around without protection and a wedding ring! Your baby didn’t ask to be born to a teen mom, but he/she sure as hell deserves the best in life. If you can’t offer it, do what Caitlynn did and adopt your baby to someone who can. The selfishness of these girls disgusts and astounds me!
Ugh, I hate stories like this. No timeline at all. Just some vague “she wasn’t walking by the same age some kids were”. It’s so easy to pile on these moms. Farrah is not a perfect mother, none of us are, but she loves Sophia and she does appear to be learning. I’m rooting for both of them. And no, until I see definitive PROOF of neglect, I’m not going to condemn Farrah for it.
Btw, y’alls, my 2 year old just finished her 3rd marathon and is currently teaching theology at Oxford. Your 2 year olds are…what? Babbling nonsense? NEGLECT! Bad mommies! Bad!
Sorry, I just hate this faux concern from some areas of mommydom – it’s just judgemental bitchery, however you dress it up.
“Btw, y’alls, my 2 year old just finished her 3rd marathon and is currently teaching theology at Oxford. Your 2 year olds are…what? Babbling nonsense? NEGLECT! Bad mommies! Bad!”
LMAO!
I guess I’m a bad mommy b/c mine only just started at Yale:(
@ Ksgirl. thanks, i was just about to write the same thing.
it seems that the people who are doing the loudest barking are the ones who have never seen the show. i understand the key word to this website is ‘bitchy’, but my goodness people get off your high horse. none of us are perfect parents no matter how hard we try. as parents you can only try your best and i think farrah is trying pretty hard. these magazine articles come out and we have no time line. more than anything, why are these child care providers gossiping to tabloids and not being proactive to getting this child help.
I have recently watched some of that show and so far the best of the bunch is the couple who realized they should put their child up for adoption because they were not ready to be parents at 16 and that their home environment was not good for a child. Sadly their (her mom and his dad) drunk, abusive parents have scolded them damn near daily for making a difficult yet mature decision in the best interest of the child.
@ bellaluna:
@ Iggles – While I agree with you about kids believing they are invincible, NOT EVERY TEEN IS THAT NAIVE.
That’s commendable. It speaks volumes that you were smart enough and mature enough to understand your actions have consequences, and that you had to take precautions. A lot of teens know this, but they take risks and mistakenly think it won’t happen to them. So many girls and guys on teen mom expressed this view, it’s disheartening.
Teens tend to be self involved and short-sighted. If they can’t find the right dress to prom, it’s “the end of the world!” etc. I’ve certainly be guilty of that kind of thinking when I was teenager, but I was never one to take risks.
Bottom line, they need guidance from people who know — there are no exceptions. i.e., if you drive drunk YOU can indeed become a statistic. If you’re unprotected YOU can indeed get preggers. It doesn’t just happen to OTHER people.
That is why I think it’s totally fair to place a lot of blame on the parents and families for failing their kids, in addition to the pregnant teen’s poor decisions. I don’t think it’s fair to call them stupid and say they should have known better.
I dunno. Hope you get what I’m trying to say.
@ Iggles – I totally get what you’re trying to say. I just get tired of the lack of accountability for one’s own actions.
My Mother raised me to understand that whatever I did, it was like a ripple in a pond: it made a small circle that radiated from my original impact to the edge of the pond and back again, ever expanding, affecting everything and everyone else in and on the pond.
I raise my children the same way. Too bad more people don’t.
And (however unfortunately) at the age of 16, these kids are 2 precarious years from “legal adulthood.” All the more reason to raise the age of legality, if you ask me. 😉 Ignorance has no age.
I just don’t like, Farrah, period. Every time I begin to feel an ounce of compassion, she turns into Super Bitch mode. I can understand tension with her mom, but she is so hateful to her dad.
Poor Sophia. I know we only see some thing on camera, and that not everyone’s perfect, but Farrah doesn’t seem to think things through. Example when she left her where she turned on the sink and casually strolled over to turn it off.
Oh, and the free childcare from the state… That’s pretty irritating. Let’s encourage more of this behavior to teens like the 12 year olds on Maury who want to have babies because babies are cute. Don’t worry, we’ll help you support them! Grr!
uh, not believing it AT ALL..I saw her walking this last season and I heard her saying daddy or mommy..doing something with the cell phone and embracing her lil cousin–whom is youngr than she is.
her mom would have stepped in or at least brought it to EVERYONE’s attention on nationwide TV..
for 9 months what did the babysitter do with her??–she could have developed more skills if she did not have sooo many other kids there.
To the above commenter
Sometimes babies hit certain milestones and then reverse for whatever reason. My baby brother was talking for a few months and suddendly just stopped and eventually had to see a speech therapist.
At the same time a 22 months old should be walking and trying to communicate
You guys dog Farrahs mom, but i specifically remember the episode where Farrah finally let her see
Sophia again, she offered to start babysitting her and said the she ws going to “get her on track” and Farrah made no comment becuase she knows her baby is behind developmentally. Farrahs mom used to give Sophia the mom attention shen they were living together while Farrah stayed out all night and complained about “needing to be a teenager”
you all say she is manipulative but I never saw Farrah baclk down or watch her mouth when she spoke to her mother. in fact if i spoke to my mother the way Farrah spoke to hers when they were living together id have been out on my a$$
I do not think Farrah’s mother is a bad mom, and I think the media has treated her horribly. After watching twenty minutes of this pseudo-hot little brat yell at all the people who keep she and her child out of a shelter, I realized that I would have bitch slapped her in the face if I was her mother too!
MTV should be ashamed for giving these girls money and fame for popping out babies WAY to young. At least half of them are totally unfit mothers. MTV should take high road and do show about how these girls should give their babies up for adoption if they cant care for them.
Some of the teens are ok mothers and taking care of their babies but the majority are not and MTV needs to be responsible and not give the bad moms any more money because it just detracts from what their priority should be (parenting) to being more about being paid & being on tv.
Farrahs mom is a pretty bad mom but hell if my teenage daughter came home knocked up while still living under my roof where I was paying her way I would be pissed also! Farrah is a spoiled brat but didnt come out of womb that way. So now we have 2 not so great people raising a baby. Hum i wonder what the baby will be like when she grows up?! Repetitive pattern. Farah should have given her up for adoption if she really wanted what was best for her baby.
i have seen every episode and hadn’t even thought about her age. this is very sad!
i have seen farrah;
answer her phone and leave sophia in the sink where she turned on the hot water and burned herself.
leave the baby in the hallway while she unpacked at her new apartment.
forget the baby on the couch and the bed.
not to mention all the yelling she does.
For every one! All these rumors are false. Stormy Clark is selling her story like both babysitters because they are under investigation by the state of Iowa for allowing Stormy to see Sophia with out Farrah’s permission.
Sophia is loved -just look at how she loves being with her real grandparents Michael, Debra, and most of al her mother Farrah. Look how distressed Sophia looked when Stormy held her – walked she has you know why because Stormy is and was and still is a stranger to her. As for her growth Sophia has walk since she was a year old, she talks, plays, draws, and is advanced for her age. Note all this BS from people only wanting money and try to cover there mistakes are being looked at by the state of Iowa…….no Farrah or her family……don’t let lies hurt Sophia’s and her real family that has protected her from Stormy and her drug using kids and late son – that is hey why Farrah kept from him and from the rest of them. The baby sitters know they did wrong that is why they will be soon in front of the judge…….besides that Stormy’s past will be out to the world soon then the world can see that she is a addict……..
@ Ekim
It’s REALLY obvious that you’re somehow connected to Farrah, FYI.
I was thinking about this a lot last night (while my oldest plays “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and steals my internet connection), and this is what I’ve determined:
Yes, some of us sound judgemental. And some of us have a right to.
Who better to judge than a woman who was a teen mom herself? Who better to say “Well, when I got pregnant at 18, my own mom had a fiance; got married; and sold our house, so they could move to a new home of their own. Who told me ‘There is no Bellaluna’s room here’ about that same new house.”? Whose parents only provided childcare for college entrance exams?
Who better to judge than a woman who traded child care with other single mothers, so she could go to school?
Who better to judge than that same (former) teen mom, who has a 20 year old son who’s never gotten a girlfriend pregnant (but HAS dated a teen mom); a 16 year old daughter who’s never been pregnant; a 14 year old son who’s still a virgin; and my “little surprise”, the 17 month old?
Tell me. Because if I don’t have perspective, I’d like to know who does.
I absolutely love this show and have really grown to love Farrah. She grew a lot this season. It is sad that these supposed caring women are bashing her. Sophia is shown many times talking and walking on the show. Here is a link to a video from a photo shoot all the girls from the show did and you can see Sophia interacting with the other children and walking.
@ scarlet vixen-
What you’re saying I said is not what I said. I didn’t say they shouldn’t see a doctor until then. I said they shouldn’t be JUDGED for POSSIBLY being a bit behind because every child develops differently. I didn’t mean not properly evaluated. None of us except a doctor who is in charge of Sophia’s health should be saying voicing their opinions on her development.
@KsGirl: You’re officially my hero of the day. These threads where parents feign concern for some celebrity’s child, and then proceed to give us a laundry list of their own child’s achievements, are annoying at best. What are they trying to prove?
Look, I don’t know if this Farrah chick is a good mother or not, but I have young children, and they each developed differently. One didn’t start talking until — GASP — he was three years old, and guess what? He’s fine. The real problem, in my opinion, is the mounting pressure many parents put on their young children to reach these milestone as early as possible, so they (the parents) can wear the “my kid was potty trained/reading/writing/interpreting Milton before your kid” badges like it actually means something. Children need time to develop at their own pace, and as a parent, I absolutely do everything I can to nurture their development, but I’m also not going feel ashamed by the fact that my toddler isn’t fully potty trained yet. And I’m certainly not going to judge other parents because their children aren’t where I think they’re “supposed” to be. It’s all just so ridiculous.
As a teenager, this story makes me SICK. I see girls at my school getting pregnant, which is unfortunate, but what is even more unfortunate is that no one really cares anymore. MTV has made it almost okay to be a teen mom, because, hey, if you’re 16 and pregnant, you can be on TV!
I don’t usually watch this show, but the parts I caught showing Farrah make me want to change the channel. She needs to stop being selfish for the sake of her child. If you don’t want a kid, don’t have unprotected sex. That’s the reason I’m waiting.
Hell yeah she is neglecting her! I’ve never watched this show. Happen to catch a few episodes this morning. OMG! Someone please help this precious innocent child before it really gets where it is to late! You can CLEARLY see there is NO BOND! You DON’T leave your baby in the dark to cry! You DON’T leave your baby in a hall outside the door at all! Ever! But she even left her for what looked like several minutes! You do NOT NOT NOT leave her in a sink with all the dangers there alone! It is high up! Water is dangerous to a baby. Doesn’t take much to drown at all! And she burnt her hand in the hot water! None of these issues did she ever comfort and love her. SHAME on MTV for NOT getting the authorities involved and for continuing to film this sorry excuse for a Mom. UGH! I waste the word Mom on her…………..
Excuse me…. the better term would be child endangerment!
Which needs to be and should be dealt with IMMEDIATELY!
When were these episodes filmed? Is this precious little innocent child still in one piece? *praying
I think Farrah is doing a pretty okay job. She brings Sophia places, talks to her all the time etc. and her parents are supportive.
I THINK FARRAH IS A GOOD MOM NOT SAYING SHE SHOULD HAVE MOVED TO FL BUT SHE IS DOING WHAT SHE THINKS IS BEST IM 20 AND HAVE A TWO YEAR OLD I KNOW ITS HARD WHEN YOUR TRYING TO GET THINGS IN ORDER FOR THEM I THINK HER GOING TO SCHOOL NOW RATHER THAN LATER IS PROBABLY BETTER LITTLE SOPHIA KNOWS WHO MOMMY IS AND IM SURE SHE MISSES HER BUT I THINK WHEN SHE GETS OLDER SHE WILL UNDERSTAND. AND STILL LOVE FARRAH!!
Sophia is way behind for her age. Carly is younger than sophia but she speaks clearly and leah has it the hardest and she is more advanced than sophia. I cant understand a word sophia says and her fine motor skills also seem delayed. I work with children who are on the autism spectrum and from what i have seen watching her on teen mom there definitely seems to be something going on with her. The children on teen mom 2 are more advanced than sophia and they are younger than she is.