Family Forum / Parenting / Step Parents / July 2006

I have been dating a man for a while and he is divorced with 2 young
children.  We are planning on living together in the near future.   He
has visits two nights a week and every other weekend.  I have spent a
little time with them during weekend visits but I never sleep over.  I

I finally had enough of SS18 and his laziness yesterday.
As I was leaving for work yesterday at 9:20, I told him that he needs to
take the garbage out.  He said ok, he would do it. I got home at 12:35 and
the garbage still hadn't been taken out, so I started calling his name.

What's up with that?  Anyway - I was gonna reply to Rebecca and say that
Geri is the top all-time poster here according to the profile!
Heather

Someone could bring up how their new spouses in-laws shouldn't be talking to
the ex-wife anymore.  That was always worth a good fight.
Damn it, where is everyone?  Now I have to go...
rebecca

I am a 34 yr old male who is now living with his 32 yr old fiance. My
fiance has two daughters from a previous marriage. The kids are 8 and
11 yrs old.
Everytime I try to discipline the kids for something, my fiance yells

What is everyone doing this summer?
I have had my niece from Ohio for a while, we have been shuttling her and
Stevie back and forth betwen here and Mom's house.  The girls are growing up
to the point where they really get along and enjoy their time together, and

Okay, this more concerns my kid than my stepson, sort of.
My son is 3-1/2.  My stepson is 10-1/2.  Stepson is with us one night a week
and every other weekend.  My son is getting confused.  Turns out, we say in
the morning, "SS has to go to school today, then he's going to his ...

When I took YD to work this afternoon, OS and a friend of his (who's
been quite the troublemaker and has been "warned" off YD) were in the
restaurant where she works.
Seems that OS no longer is welcome to stay where he's been, and his

Hey Jen, did you guys ever end up paying any of SD's college?
Anne

This post is about my SD, which is going to be the extent of
step-parenting content.
So there.
My SD *majorly* screwed up her freshman and sophomore years of high

I remember this being a thing, but I can't remember what happened. I
don't even know who would know this, except maybe you guys or you might
know who might know.
The FAFSA - whose freaking information do we use?

Hi! My boyfriend has 2 children and is currently going through a traumatic
divorce. I support him for the most part, but there are things that I
don't know if I should accept or not. I was not feeling well today, he
spend the whole day with his children, parents and sister at a bbq ...

I'm a teacher and I deal with kids all year long.  In the summer we
have my step-kids.  I don't necessarily love this, but what really
drives me crazy is his ex schedules them for all kinds of activities
and then our summer revolves around those activities.  When we got