12-year-old wants family for the rest of his growing up
Talk about feeling like a prince. Simon had reign over Gattiland before the doors opened for a whole morning.
This 12-year-old is the self-proclaimed fastest kid in school. And he's got a strategy.
"You always have to let the person go. But when they get tired
and stop and take a breath, zoom! I'm gone," Simon said.
He's also the self-proclaimed most chased-after guy in fifth grade.
"Every time I go by the halls, I better run. Because as soon as I look behind me, girls will be following me," he said.
Simon's favorite part of school is P.E., especially kickball. Yet, academically, he's really improved lately. He'll be the first to say he's had an important two years.
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"Mostly, I've been seeing other kids' behaviors and that reminded me of me. So I looked back and said, 'Whoa. I need to change something.' So that's what I did," he said.
Simon said he's become more of who he wants to be. But there's one change he can't make happen on his own. He's been in foster care for three years and he wants a family.
"Foster care is like, they just put you in a home because you've
been abused or something. They've done something bad to you, that's why you get put in a foster home. When you get adopted, that means you won't get abused like [with] your biological parents," he said.
His caseworker said Simon has a strong sense of what he wants his life to be. Because of that, he sometimes mixes fantasy with reality.
One thing he's sure of, he's ready to settle in somewhere. Simon has lived in six different places in the last three years.