Me: Raised as a single kid, only have one kid, don’t want more, not too picky about cleaning or stuff but I do like my SPACE and my PRIVACY, and I don’t like people touching my stuff it drives me batty. And I expect to be treated with respect and manners, I mean, you don’t have to be all formal or kiss my butt, but I mean good old’ common decency like please, thank you, keep your voice down kind of thing because that’s the way I treat people. I don’t even yell at these kids and God knows I should! Recently I have been getting sick of their behavior and I tell their dad to do something about it, and he kinda rolls his eyes sometimes & says I’m too picky or strict, that I want everything my way or something like that

Stepsons: 10 and 5, hyperactive, fight about every 5-10 minutes, don’t like to share, talk back, don’t do what they’re told to do without a fight, whiney (my head hurts, my shoulder hurts I sh*t you not something always hurts on one of them) CUSSING, and they RUN through stores like monkeys!! I mean like at top speed running through the store giggling like they do at the park.

Last time I took the 5 year old to the store he was running around like that, I gently (yes gently) pulled him aside and explained to him he cannot run in stores like that because 1) the store people get mad and 2) he will get hurt. One minute later he’s running again and sure enough, he trips and falls, gets a bruise and his stupid BM will probably want to know why I let that happen. Uh huh.

Is there a serious lack of parenting that their parents are not doing? Do their parents need to be b*tch slapped or is this typical behavior for two boys at this age???