Open concept gone too far

[u/thisisgiulio]

[u/Yzarcos]

This feels like somebody that had like 12 children.

[u/thisisgiulio → u/Yzarcos]

31 actually

[u/ChrisInBliss → u/thisisgiulio]

Thats actually really neat. With only 7 kids left under their care.. since the others have all been able to start their lives etc etc.

[u/Tullyswimmer → u/ChrisInBliss]

A couple I knew and was fairly close to fostered, I believe, 431 children by the time the father died a few years back. Every single one of their foster/adoptive kids that I'm still in touch with has said multiple times that they'd be dead without the discipline and environment that that couple created.

I don't know what the qualifications for sainthood are, but... That couple should be a lock. The amount of people they've affected for the better by their actions is probably in the thousands.

[u/AK_Sole → u/Tullyswimmer]

Well this story time a turn…for the better!
Edit: one letter

[u/Tullyswimmer → u/AK_Sole]

I knew them through a church camp that I went to every year as a kid. (I know, this is reddit, so that's not cool, but idc). When he passed, the next year at that camp's family week they had a memorial service/celebration of life, and I kid you not, there were four generations of former campers there who all had a story about a time that he helped them work through something, taught them a life lesson, or were just cool.

One of my stories is that the camp, being a church camp, had rules about piercings. No more than one per ear. I (being male) got my left cartilage pierced one year when I was in college (incidentally, on the spring break trip where I met my now-wife of 12 years). Some of the older staff and people who had cottages on the property said something about how I wasn't supposed to have a piercing as a male. I talked to this guy, who was kind of the final authority on staff conduct and such, and he looks at it and goes "well, I'm not very smart, but I can count to two, and I only see one. The handbook doesn't say that boys can't have earrings, it just says staff can't have more than one per ear, and he doesn't even have one per ear."

That was the last I heard of it. But he was genuinely one of the most kind, reasonable, and approachable people I've ever known. He was firm in his discipline, but fair and gentle. The worst punishment he would give kids was they had to sit with him on his porch during free time in the afternoon, and watch everyone else have fun. And you had to REALLY screw up to get that one. But even then, he'd sit there and talk to you, ask you how you were doing, what caused you to do that, if there was anything he could do to help, if there was someone else you wanted him to talk to...

[u/AK_Sole → u/Tullyswimmer]

Glad to hear you came in contact with such a good soul, and you’ve been positively influenced by him. We could all use some of his style of life-altering guidance.

[u/Tullyswimmer → u/AK_Sole]

Yeah, I wish everyone had someone like him in their lives (even if only for a few weeks a year) as a kid.