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Submitted by Smile-n-Cry on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:24am

Hi everyone, do you ever feel that some of the things you fight for aren't worth it. It sometimes almost feels that my skids win the battle, like I gave up trying to get them to do something different and when everything is against you, it starts feeling that it's not worth fighting.

I hate that I always feel guilty...

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Submitted by Smile-n-Cry on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:16pm

I'm a full time stepmom of 3, I have one 5 yr old son of my own. When the skids do wrong, I'm the one that usually catches it because my husband is never on top of things. It could be something so simple, like last night I opened my ss drawer and it was packed tight with jeans and jean shorts which I make a point to always have hangers with the clips at each end for him to hang these items on a hanger in his closet so that the doesn't end up ruining the dresser drawers. He has been explained this over and over and over and over....so when I see this I blow up out of control.

Update: Stepdaughter!!!!

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Submitted by Smile-n-Cry on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 8:53am

Last night when I got home from work I came into the house telling my SD that I hadn't said much to her about her recent pics on her phone but that I wasn't going to stand for it. I told her that she is grounded from tv, radio, any form of technology/electronic. That what she did was wrong and that she better realize that she's going to have to deal with the concequenses of her actions.

Stepdaughter!!!

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Submitted by Smile-n-Cry on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 2:14pm

My husband and I didn't want my sd to get a cell phone yet but she kept bugging her grandmother for one without our knowledge and the grandmother got her one about 8 months ago. We didn't like it but surrendered to it since she had already gotten it for her and because my sd is in athletics and has to go after school to her games, it was convienent for us that she had a way to get a hold of her when she was out.