Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / January 2006

Last night my kids (DD17 and DS15) were at their dad's. Around 10pm he
called me to say that DD was "having a tantrum" and threatening to
leave and walk to my house (3-4 miles?)
Apparently she and dad's GF had had another screaming fight and DD

My neighbor has just moved his elderly step-mother into his home.  His
father passed away two years ago and she can't live on her own anymore.
 She has no kids of her own.  His BM is livid about this new
arrangement and takes it as a personal insult.  I'm thinking next

Help!
Can someone more computer savvy than I am tell me how to set up a filter
in Netscape to exclude cross-posted messages? I think the cross-posting
on our most prominent thread is getting out of hand... not only

this morning i was awoken with the news that my 18 year old stepdaughter
was fired from yet another job...this one lasted 2 days...she was late
again after 2 days on the job....its getting ridiculous...no work
ethic...hopefully she has another one soon because she has a car that

Here's a little online game to try your hand-eye coordination - or in
my case, hand-finger coordination (silly little laptop eraser!).
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
It says 18 seconds is brilliant.

My Step Son's attitude (14 years old) has gotten progressively worse over
the last several months.  The last several weeks have been the worse and
he seems to be getting worse by the day!  Some of our current "problems":
Nasty and rude comments are the norm.  Told to do or not do ...

My partner and I are co-parenting a ten year old. I became involved in
the child's life just after she turned eight. We live together in a
very nice home and for the most part everything "works". What isn't
working is that we have different ideas of what parenting is. If my

I am a step-mother of 2 and a biological mother of 4. My husband and I have
been married for a year and a half but have been together for 3 years.
When he and I started dating, his ex-wife was using drugs and was in and
out of rehabs. He had sole custody of the children with no ...

Hello group,
I'm about to marry a terrific woman with three great kids.  Their
father is a decent guy, albeit a bit uninvolved in their lives IMHO.
As my relationship with these kids (ages 6, 6, and 8) has deepened they

First, I posted this in another parenting forum as well as here.  Sorry
to double post but I just found this forum and thought it might be more
appropriate here:
I am dating a girl that has two children, and two different fathers.

We had inheritance $$ that was left by my grandparents and their brothers
and sisters and she and her daughter spent it all none of us kids got
anything, even the furniture and cars that were left behind they took them
also.  Is that right?  that step mothers and step sisters take ...

This year's Christmas is going to be different.  For once we're going to
stay home.  No running off to try and visit everyone.  We're not dealing
 with any extended family until I fly out to see my parents for a few
days on the 27th.  SS isn't seeing his mother or any of her ...

They are both so incredibly yummy! Perfect legs, heavenly butts, great
meat and both are really dumb and totally useless.I just married their
stupid mother to have access to these two succulent piggies.Yummy! I
will eat all of them, like I did with so many stepdaughters before.

well..last night i stopped being a stepparent....i made this decision
all on my own and i have the support of my wife april...i tried and
tried and tried to be a good positive role model for raymond and
ashleigh and obviously it didn't do any good....their father has always

I am just recently married, my stepdaughter is 13 and overall a good kid,
since i have been in her life i have added much needed structure. at times
i get attitude. she told her dad that i am too bossy, my expectations are
that she keeps her room clean and clean up after herself. my ...