Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / May 2006

Ok I am back on this again.  I have been raped or feels like it from my 14
year old son.  He went through my whole room this time and took things and
just invaded my privacy.  I decided this morning to do a locker check at
school.  I walked in the school had the school open it ...

YD has come to me about an issue she is having.  We're hoping it's a
depression issue and not something deeper.  She's 16yo, her 18yo bf
joined the Marines and is stationed in NC, she's continually upset with
and worried about OS18, *and* she decided today to call her bio-mom for

So, I'm laying on the loveseat, doing a bit of typing, listening to YD
as she *finally* talked to me about something that's  been bugging
her...
And I get attacked by a lamb!!!

Here's something I posted in another group.  Part of the problem I
posted about is shear exhaustion from the things y'all know about from
the past 6-and-a-half years, and I didn't post it all, as I'm sure you
realize.  None of us post everything going on with us.

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I need your help.  I am the step mom of 3 kids.  The kids are 16 girl, 14 boy, and 11 year old boy.  The thing I need help with is the 14 year old.  Here is the situation his father has full custody of them.  Legal and physical.  But their father is a over the road truck ...

Chewy did good on this one:
http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=162296
Kitten

OK, trying this again.  Tried to type an update last night, but between
exhaustion and having to deal with a YD issue, it took me a couple
hours to get it typed, and then our router decided to flake.
The wedding went beautifully.  OD was absolutely gorgeous.

I hope you all have a great Mom's Day!  I plan on taking a day to relax and
do nothing - at least no committments today.
With hope and heart,
Kathleen

OD(25) is getting married Saturday.  In 5 days.
A few months back, when she was getting ready to send out invitations,
we discussed numbers.  Chewy and I are paying for the reception, her
bio-mom is paying for the wedding.  As we were discussing numbers, she

OS18 moved out on his own last June, along with the friend who'd been
living with us for a year-and-a-half, doing a "real life skills" aspect
to his education.  (He finished the academic portion the end of May
last year.)  He's still going through a lot of changes on his own and

Hi all.  I have a 15 year old step son, he and I get along great however he
and his mother do not.  I've been very patient trying to understand and
remember what he's going thru at this age.  However he's very
disprespectful when thing dont go his way.  Today when I got to work my

On the advice of our marriage counselor, I moved out a month ago for (in
theory) three months.  The major problem in our marriage was my wife's
teenage daughter (my step-daughter) who's 15 years old.  She was
completely out of control.  Running off every chance she could to drink ...

Well, little Mr. Attitude has settled in pretty well.  So's the little
doeling we picked up the same day.
We got a good bit of the colostrum I'd frozen into each of them, and
now we're putting powdered colostrum into milk replacer.  They've gotta

The kids had their science classes today in G-town, so we were up and
out fairly early.  8:30am, just after they got out of the truck to go
inside, I got a phone call.  It's our friend who calls us for rescues.
They've got a newborn for me to pick up, when can I come get it?