The Bold and the Beautiful - MESSAGE BOARDS

First of all, the incident that occured where the children were left alone overnight was not all Brooke's fault. The children were in the care of their Aunt Donna and she NEVER should have left until she saw Brooke walk in that door. Yes, Brooke fell asleep in her car, but she didn't do that intentionally. She didn't TRY to fall asleep. IMO that was mostly Donna's fault for leaving. I understand she had a flight to catch, and if Brooke was late there were any number of people she could have called to come care for the children until Brooke got back. She could have called Ridge, Nick, Bridget, Rick, Eric, but she just left w/out making sure that it was actually Brooke coming home.

The second incident that occured in which she was making dinner and Hope started a fire, it was an accident for pete's sake!! Brooke couldn't help it that those two incidents happened w/in 24 hours of eachother! It's not like she abandoned them...she was making them dinner!! Parent's cannot watch their children every single second of every single day. As long as you know that your children are in a safe place and not like running around in the streets unattended, it's ok to go make dinner! I mean, when I around Hope's age, my mother was cleaning the house and I climbed up on the bathroom sink, got in the medicine cabinent, opened up the child-proof bottle of childrens tylenol and ate the whole bottle. You can't expect parents to just run around after their children every second and never take their eyes off them. What if Brooke had to go to the bathroom or something? She can't leave her kids for 2 seconds to go take a pee? The whole thing is ridiculous, and then to top it off Stephanie is being a royal b**** about it. That was so ignorant not to let Brooke say goodnight to her kids. I could have just slapped her across the face. And Ridge is not acting much better if you ask me.

I understand that Brooke is going thru an emotional crisis. The ending of a relationship is sometimes a hard thing to go thru, but she always made sure her kids were taken care of. You can say a lot of things about Brooke...yeah she's a tramp, yeah she slept w/ all the men in one family, yeah she does a lot of really stupid things, but one thing you can't say is that she is a bad mother to Hope and R.J. IMO those kids never should have been taken from her.

I am glad she lost the kids. It might make her be a better mother, when she gets them back. She needs to have them as her 1st priority. and not live her life soely, pursuring her destiny, as to which mans bed ahe will be sharing. We all know she will get them back

i think shes a good mother to hope and r.j. and the circumstances that led to her losing the kids were not her fault.

I for one found it ironic when Stephanie and Taylor were talking about Thorne and how bad things were for him and how it could affect Alexandria. Where is Alexandria during all of this? Does he foist her off with the nanny? How healthy is it to have a drunk and a pill-popper for a father? Is Stephanie going to step in and suggest that she keep Alexandria? I mean come on, wouldn't it have been a better storyline if this would have happened to Thorne given the siutation he has put himself into?

As parents, anything happens in your house is your responsibility especially when it comes to the well being of your kids. Brooke is the sole care giver of these kids, it was HER arranging the babysiter, so it was her responsibility to be there when the babysitter had to depart. The schedule of the babysitter was something Brooke was well aware of before departing the home. IT was her state of mind that caused the neglect to take place. Your job as a parent is to be sure that your kids are properly taken care of, and if you need to be home by a certain hour, and you're not, that falls on you due to the fact you had knowledge of the matter before hand.

Whether Brooke fell asleep accidently or not, it lead to those kids being home alone, due to her speaking with the sitter seconds before the car thought to be hers, pulled up in the drive.

Then you turn around and there's a second incident happens while Brooke is suppose to be over seeing her children. How many accident have to occur before the kids are tragicly hurt or God forbid, killed, before Brooke will be held responsible for her role in this? Do you realize how careless it sounds to try and explain away 2 seperate incidents within a 24 hour spand? AT this point Brooke cannot care for these children, should couldn't help them the night she fell asleep in the car, and she couldn't care for them the night they nearly burned to death right before her eyes.

What else has to happen to prove that these kids need help, think about it, one night you're terrified from being home alone all night long at their ages, and the next day, they stare death in the face.

IF a daycare facility left your child alone in a hot van because the driver's mind was occupied with a relationship gone bad, would you bring your child back? Again, your job as a caregiver, whether it's a parent or a child care provider, is to take care of children, and Brooke should have taken better care of her young children, bottom line. These things happened in Brooke's home, and if I had kids, I wouldnt' allow them over there after two small children were left home alone all night long, and the next day, they damn near burned to death in a fire, strike two, it doesn't takea strike three for me.

If it weren't for Ridge the kids would have been creamated.

Nasty old Hag, go and mind ur own son. He's drinking and pill popping. U definitely take the cake for being a burnt out old pot! Brooke is definitely a million times better mother than Stephanie ever is.

for me i have to blame brooke for telling her sister she was pulling up the street. yes nudonna should have waited until brooke came through the door. but the lighter incident? that was brooke and nicky's fault there.