So my SD is a pain in the butt by herself but my MIL is here visiting for the summer. And guess what?! She likes to kiss ass to this kid as well. So I finally got this SD of mine to do her own laundry, set the table, do her dishes without a problem. But with my MIL here I can’t ask my SD to do anything or else I’m the mean step mom making this kid the slave of this house. I asked her to set the table. My MIL yelled at me. I asked her to put her own clothes in the laundry my MIL yelled at me.

So this is my first post, guess I should give a little background. First of all I have 2 DS 15 and 16 that I was a single mother for many years and while I know I'm not even close to perfect I feel that I have managed to raise 2 fairly responsible children. (I.e. neither of them have ever come home drunk, had any trouble with the police, repeated a grade, or had any major trouble at school. The worst was a short streak when youngest tried skipping classes a few times got caught and was punished.)