cps interviewed kid today at daycare

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feeling honestly heartbroken today. i tend to have a positive approach to work. i don't tend to bring home issues into work or work issues home. but this is really breaking me since it's a first for me. i'm just looking for advice on how to approach this mentally and how to cope. one of the children in my class had to be pulled out of class today to have an interview with cps. this is a first for me after just four years of working in ece. he is only five years old. i only found out because i reported to my director yesterday the things he was saying to me. he said how he hated himself multiple times in the conversation. that he was a bad boy and he hated himself. how he felt like his mother didn't care about him. she told me that tomorrow he was being interviewed by cps and he was pulled out of my class to do so today. i just don't know how to feel. i told him to bring a toy with him. i'm just so worried that with his very active and playful nature that he was too distracted by the toy car i (and the director) told him to bring he didn't answer the questions honestly or was too distracted because he is very active and playful. ive messaged my director for reassurance but it's past midnight so i don't expect a response. to be frank i am drunk right now, partially because of this. but i am just so unsure on how to feel. i also feel so bad knowing he may be removed and i will never see him again. either because the case goes somewhere and he is removed from the daycare and home or he is sent somewhere else... or because the mom catches wind and pulls him out and moves daycares or even states as cps is catching on. im just looking for any advice at all since aftwr four years in the field it's a first for me and im struggling bad

Posted Mar 14, 2026, 7:14 AM UTC

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