BTaylorMom

All right guys. Good parenting or bad- we love our kids. We love REBEL football. We love those guys on the team and the parents that gave us hugs when we came to the game without Bobby... and hugs when Bobby was on the field. We're just grateful and blessed to have a healthy kid on the field. All the rest is just crap. I don't take suggestions on my parenting skills- I just pray and hammer it all out like every other working mom & dad out there. What works in one family may not work in another. I just know we all love our kids. I teach 20 third graders all day and go home to 5 great kids. I'm just blessed and you can't kill that buzz no mattter how hard anyone tries. Go Rebs! BobbyMama-

If I may ask....What happened to this Bobby kid?? If it's not my place, then I sincerely apologize. Only curiosity. My husband and I posted our letter to friends and family earlier. I have pasted the email from August 18 about our situation with Bobby. We hope this will somehow help a child or a parent, thus our honesty throughout it all. My email is TaylorD@JCSchools.org if you should have more questions or concerns that our experience might help you with. For those of you that don??™t know, or know a little, or don??™t know any at all-??¦. Greg and I suspected Bobby of drug use last week. I pulled him off the practice field on Tuesday and confirmed our suspicions with a drug test on Wednesday morning. The police or school is not involved in any way- this is completely a parental action. We took Bobby to a great adolescent facility in Chattanooga. It is a 45 day minimum program. It was the hardest thing ever to leave him there, but also the best. Best care scenario is that he works hard for the next 45 days and he??™ll return to South and back to the football team. His absence from school is treated as a hospitalization and he has a homebound teacher at the facility. South is doing a great job helping us through the process. Coach Carter is amazing and is paving a road for a successful return, should Bobby chose to take it. Our family is still fried from the trauma and required, immediate parenting decisions. We are both still at work and trying to keep things at home running a usual. For now, Bobby can send and receive mail, so we are doing our part to write each day and support his efforts and encourage him to take this opportunity to get back on track. If you would like to send him a note, I??™m sure it would be magical for him to hear from you. If you would like to send him an email, you can write & send it to my address and I??™ll print and send it to him with my daily notes. The football team and his friend at school are sending him notes of encouragement each day through envelopes that I have supplied for the coach. (It is checked for substance & any inappropriate discussions.) His address is below if you would like to drop him a note. Thanks for all your love & support. This is not a secret and we don??™t want it to be treated as rumor. If anyone asks, please tell them the truth about Bobby. We want Bobby to come back to the truth and have to deal with it. Please let others know about Bobby??™s story and perhaps it might inspire them to talk to their kids when they think ???That could never happen to MY child.??? It happened to my child- and we talked to him about it every day- and we saved him from the dregs of a life like that when we adopted him- and he still made the stupid choices. But that doesn??™t mean we??™ll give up talking, loving, and trying to help him and all the other sweet kids we??™ve got under our roof. I??™m proud that Greg and I were not afraid to make the hard decisions and were able to tough love. That??™s the real test of parenting. It was great when we were in the stands yelling when Bobby scored, but we have to be the same parents when he??™s making bad choices. Same level of love- different ball game. Thanks for your prayers and drop Bobby a note if you want. Much love, Deena & Greg Since this letter, Bobby is out of rehab. He has passed all drug tests given to him by doctos and by us. We tend to do them every few days. The standards we set for Bobby to play on the team again were: attend 3 or more NA/AA meetings a week, have all school work made up to a B or more average, attend school every day with no tardies, continual clean random drug tests, and see his counselor once a week; he did meet all the standards set forth and we let him begin practicing with the team (he began only practicing on the track when the team practiced), then we let him dress out for Friday's game- but he was not allowed to play; that bring us to tonight- if he met all the goals for the week, he could play at East tonight IF Stacy sees fit to use him. All these goals were set by my husband and I- not the coaches; however, the South coaching staff has given us 100% support on our phasing in decisions. Don't think we know what we are doing as parents- we are just shooting from the hip and praying about it. We have had some fantastic Christian professional counselors to guide us along the way, but we have made final goals and decisions. Please do not attempt to read this as any sort of guidebook or advice- we still have no idea of the outcome--- we only know that today, this hour, Bobby is well. We are blessed by the moments and give thanks for each that come peacefully. Hope this answers any questions- Much Rebel Love, B Taylor Proud Mama

Of course! Thanks for the support- loving your kid is hard most of the time and fun some of the time- and if you do the hard part the fun part comes more often. Bobby does have heart- and now such a testimony & story. We appreciate how much you and the entire community have done for Bobby--- truly, it takes a villiage to raise a child. We are blessed with a villiage of wise, forgiving, loving, believing folks who think the best of all kids even on their worst day. Bobby is growing stronger everyday. As parents, we know his fall is just a mistake away- but all we can do is encourage, pray, pray and then pray. It's nice to know that while I'm busy teaching 3rd graders and raising my 4 other kids that the villiage of friends is holding Bobby accountable everyday- that's the blessing. Whether Bobby sees a down this year or not- or deserves one- who cares? He's a winner in our book for enduring the rath of hardcare parenting- a returning with the sweet smile and silly dimpled grin. Go REBS- all of them! Go REB parents- the hardest job in the world. See you at East Much love & gratitude Proud mom of #2 The BobbyMama

Taylor Fletcher is amazing and has had Bobby's back during his time away from the team. Fletch should play where he wants to play even if that means Bobby standing on the sidelines. Fletch has earned his stripes and could command control anywhere on the field.

You can't imagine how good it will be to see the Blue #2 on the field this year! Thanks for everyone's prayers & support. We are blessed... Go Rebs

What is the running back situation now for South? I dont think the Fletcher kid can continue to carry the ball 30 times a game and then play defense as well. Who can relieve him at RB? What happened to all the other rb's that everyone was talking about earlier in the year? Hi Rebs- It's Bobby Taylor's Mom. Greg and I sent the below email to our family and friends about Bobby's situation. Thanks for Rebel community support, hugs, and prayers. We are blessed with a great villiage that has helped us raise or son. Please hold him accountable when he returns! Much Love, Deena For those of you that don??™t know, or know a little, or don??™t know any at all-??¦. Greg and I suspected Bobby of drug use last week. I pulled him off the practice field on Tuesday and confirmed our suspicions with a drug test on Wednesday morning. The police or school is not involved in any way- this is completely a parental action. We took Bobby to a great adolescent facility in Chattanooga. It is a 45 day minimum program. It was the hardest thing ever to leave him there, but also the best. Best care scenario is that he works hard for the next 45 days and he??™ll return to South and back to the football team. His absence from school is treated as a hospitalization and he has a homebound teacher at the facility. South is doing a great job helping us through the process. Coach Carter is amazing and is paving a road for a successful return, should Bobby chose to take it. Our family is still fried from the trauma and required, immediate parenting decisions. We are both still at work and trying to keep things at home running a usual. For now, Bobby can send and receive mail, so we are doing our part to write each day and support his efforts and encourage him to take this opportunity to get back on track. If you would like to send him a note, I??™m sure it would be magical for him to hear from you. If you would like to send him an email, you can write & send it to my address and I??™ll print and send it to him with my daily notes. ( TaylorD@JCSChools.org) The football team and his friend at school are sending him notes of encouragement each day through envelopes that I have supplied for the coach. His address is below if you would like to drop him a note. Thanks for all your love & support. This is not a secret and we don??™t want it to be treated as rumor. If anyone asks, please tell them the truth about Bobby. We want Bobby to come back to the truth and have to deal with it. Please let others know about Bobby??™s story and perhaps it might inspire them to talk to their kids when they think ???That could never happen to MY child.??? It happened to my child- and we talked to him about it every day- and we saved him from the dregs of a life like that when we adopted him- and he still made the stupid choices. But that doesn??™t mean we??™ll give up talking, loving, and trying to help him and all the other sweet kids we??™ve got under our roof. I??™m proud that Greg and I were not afraid to make the hard decisions and were able to tough love. That??™s the real test of parenting. It was great when we were in the stands yelling when Bobby scored, but we have to be the same parents when he??™s making bad choices. Same level of love- different ball game. Thanks for your prayers and drop Bobby a note if you want. Much love, Deena & Greg Bobby Taylor c/o Scholtze Center 911 Pineville Road Chattanooga, TN 37405