Hi,
My sister, who's 8, is having a lot of trouble with her father. He left when she was 1 and has treated her like a second class member of his family ever since. Things have always been hard that way, and she's been mad at him before, but now she doesn't want to see him ever again, because he's taking his new wife and son to Jamaca to visit his mother. She feels like he hates her, and when mom broached the subject with him, he said he didn't care. She doesn't want to go to his house anymore, and I can understand that. My question is, how do I help her? My dad and I didn't get along either, and him and I had a crappy relationship, so I know I'm the only one who really knows what to say to her, I just don't know how to talk to her. She's very young and very sensative. This is far too much for her to deal with. Help? I hate to see her suffer.