Middle schooler gets upset with friends stealing her stuff, stepmom uses hand sanitizer prank to teach them a lesson: ‘I demanded she hand over the empty bottle’

Some problems can only be solved by giving the problem causer a taste of their own medicine.  Navigating situations where somebody will not stop taking advantage of you can be tricky, especially when you are still growing up and learning, and it is happening in an environment that is difficult to avoid, like school. Because …
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Stepmother insists on homeschooling her 12-year-old stepdaughter because of her medical issues, going against her and her mom’s wishes: ‘We already homeschool our 6-year-old.’

This should be a temporary fix when her stepdaughter is too sick to attend school. People homeschool their kids for all different reasons, and one of them is because their child is too sick to attend school on a regular basis. If a kid is out of school for «too many days» because they’re too …
Seguir leyendo Stepmother insists on homeschooling her 12-year-old stepdaughter because of her medical issues, going against her and her mom’s wishes: ‘We already homeschool our 6-year-old.’

17-year-old stepdaughter accuses stepmother of pretending to be poor because she refused to buy her a $1200 purse: ‘I know you and Dad make bank’

21-year-old daughter discovers stepdad doesn’t want her to live with her mom and him, she moves in with bio dad, refusing to tell mom the truth: ‘I don’t want to start a fight’

Finding out that someone doesn’t like you or doesn’t want you around them is never a fun experience. Realistically, not everyone you’ll encounter in life is going to like you, and that is not really something you can control. That being said, it is one thing to accept that there are potentially people out there …
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Mom steals iPad from her 8-year-old daughter and gives it to her stepdaughter, dad calls the police and reports her for theft: ‘Her view is sisters should help sisters out’

It’s not easy to parent when you’re divorced, especially when you’re trying to discipline your child. There might be behaviors that dad thinks are unacceptable, but mom couldn’t care less about. These differences arise in marriages, too, but they’re easier to discuss and get on the same page about when you’re living in the same …
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Dad refuses to take 14-year-old stepdaughter along to Billie Eilish concert for his 16-year-old daughter’s birthday, claims her own dad can take her: ‘She’s always hated me’

As someone who had a hard time sharing anything with her two sisters, I can’t imagine how challenging it is to have to share stuff with stepsiblings. Learning how to share your parents is hard enough, who wants to be forced to share birthday presents as well? The stepsisters in the story below are currently …
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‘They are old enough to realize what’s wrong’: Stepmom tells 13 and 16-year-old stepdaughters to stop calling her ‘Mom’ after she realizes they only consider her a parent when their biological mother isn’t around

Stepparents often have a bad reputation before they can prove that they’re capable of being a sufficient and loving parental figure. Normally, a child might hold some skepticism when a stranger joins their family, and that’s understandable. For whatever reason, one of the child’s biological parents is no longer in the picture, and they might …
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Stepdad refuses to acknowledge his 6-year-old stepdaughter after divorcing her mom, only spends time with his 18-month-old biological daughter: ‘I feel she’s no longer my responsibility’

I hate to see adults downplay the importance of their relationship with the children in their lives. I’m not talking about a random family member that a kid sees once or twice a year: I’m talking about grown-ups who actively take a parental role in their kids’ lives, and don’t fully accept the responsibility of …
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30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn’t think they’re close enough: ‘Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she’s got.

Whether a stepparent will adopt their stepchild has a lot to do with their specific family situation. If the mom has been raising her daughter on her own since the day she was born, and she marries her daughter’s stepdad during her daughter’s childhood, he might be a good candidate for adopting her. He has …
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Dad divorces wife after she refuses to punish her 16-year-old daughter for stealing from his 13 and 15-year-old kids: ‘My kids were so relieved when we moved out, so I knew I made the right choice’

Blended families can exacerbate issues that were already present before the families got blended. If a kid mistreats his parents and they don’t do anything about it, chances are he’s probably going to treat his stepparents and stepsiblings with as much cruelty as he treats his parents, if not more. It’s difficult enough for kids …
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