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SD 9 Normal Behavior???????

hellokittyfan's picture

i like my SD9 but holy does she ever make me wonder sometimes. she has what unfortunatly seems to be the usual bad attitude when she comes home from BM house. she lives with SO and goes to visit BM whenever she wants pretty open and fair custody arrangment i think even though BM is awful!!!!! she asked SO to pay her rent not 6 months ago!!!!! he didnt pay it--i think he knew it wouldnt go over well with me LOL.

she can be very sweet however when shes bad i dont even want to be here. she is so disrespectful its unreal!!! i am blanking on all of the things that she says now that i have a moment to myself to post here and watch 20/20 Wink . multi-tasking--isnt that what we do as SM with no thank yous or respect. ahhh yes the things she says to SO: "when i call you, you come here now" etc etc. SO recently has began to correct their (also SS15 will get into that later) disrespectful behavior, after i told him that it was unacceptable and is not teaching them that he loves them just that he is a doormat. im actually really happy that he has started listening to me. Back to issues with SD: she lies all of the time the only way to be sure she is telling the truth is if she reitterates a story a few times, she refuses to sleep in her room because there isnt a TV in there, she is spoiled beyond belief, and she HANGS all over SO ALL the time. when i say i will be sitting on one side of him, she will be sitting on the other holding his hand and then works her way over until she is sitting on his lap. we cannot be in the kitchen for 5 minutes alone. the hanging all over dad thing is the thing that bothers me the most. sometimes i feel alienated from even sitting in the living room because she is laying on the couch cuddling him and i have to sit in the chair off to the side alone. i finally said to her the other night "does something seem different about this picture to you?" i probably shouldnt have but i was so irritated i couldnt hold back anymore. anyway is the hanging thing normal? i find it kind of messed up and wierd. dont know how to tell SO that i find it wierd either?

next SS15 is pretty nice BUT he is totally ADDICTED to video games. has a headset that you talk into and other people talk back. i dont know im not into video games. but its super annoying. finally got SO to get him to move video game system into his room but its terrible. im actually concerned about him because its to the point he isnt going out and socializing at all. i havnt seen him go out with friends in 3 weeks. even his hygene is slipping as of right now he has been in the same clothes since i saw him yesterday at 12pm...its now 11pm the next day. any suggestions???

if you read all this thank you!

stepmomto3bioto1's picture

I totally know & understand how you feel about the hanging all over DH thing. I have 3 stepsons (13,10 & Dirol & ss10 does this to the max!!! It irritates me like crazy!!! He does it intentionally to tru to "exclude" me from my DH. Ive tried several things, but one actually worked. Atleast it worked to opening DHs eyes. Up till then he thought it was "cute" or showed how much SS loved him, or that they were just really "close" & liked to cuddle. All excuses, all him wanting that feeling of everyone wanting to be so clise to him. It kinda fed his ego if you will.

What I did that worked, was I told Dh before the SSs got there, was that i was working on a scrapbook & would be taking pics for it while they were here. Really I was taking the pics in hope that DH would see with his own eyes the truth of what was really going on. Sometimes when something is happening to you, you are too close to the situation to really "see" whats really goung on.

I took lots of pics that wkend. Pics of SS10 hanging all over Dh in several situations: sitting on DH on the couch like a baby (this one really worked!!!! It looked soooo awkward & just flat out wrong!! Ss is almost as tall as me!! So when DH saw this one he saw just how inapprpriate it looked!!!). I tok pics of ss waiting, sitting outside the bathroom on the floor waiting for & talking too DH while he was on the toilet!!!! Took pics of ss10 sutting beside DH at ALL meals, standing beside dh at all times, etc

Dh finally realized (after 2 yrs) that SS10 haf essentially pushed the other kids & me out & away from DH. Finally DH had seen it with his own eyes. I just cannot explain to you just how weird that pic looks with ss10 sitting in dh's lap, sitting sideways like a baby with dh even cradling his head!!!! SS10s legs all sprawled out on the couch and to tell you the truth it TOTALLY creeped DH out!!!!!

He asked me to throw the pics away & guess what? DH has now CHANGED things & its getting much much better now!!' DH now TELLS ss10 to get off him. DH can now also spend more 1 on 1 time with all three kids. DH NOW tells SS10 to move over so he cam also sit beside me now!!!

I hope someone else can try this & maybe it can help someone else out. My mom is to thank for this idea. Thank you Mom

LRP75's picture

DUDE!!! TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

I think I may try this when my SS10 comes and climbs into bed with my DH. It totally gives me the heebie jeebies...

I wonder if a picture of it will work... Hmmm...

Thanks for the tip!!!

Most Evil's picture

Love the picture idea!!!

Maybe for the OP's SD even videotape her, as she bosses around her elders and runs the show!!

Excellent teaching perspective for the guilty parents - the camera does not lie!!!!!!! Smile

LRP75's picture

Oh, as for the video games... I think this is "normal"...

BUT your DH should probably work on making sure the kid is still showering, getting fresh air/exercise, eating properly, and that his grades haven't slipped.