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Nosy Stepdaughter

PaulaMc's picture

I have two step daughters. One 10 and one 7. The 7 year old is very content being a kid and not really caring what the parents/ adults are doing. The 10 year old is totally different. She wants to know everything that is going on. She tries to listen to adult conversations that are not meant for her to hear. Even when we think she is not listening, we find out she was. We have caught her turning the TV down to listen and also listening through the vents in the house when we are on a different floor. When we have company over and have had conversations in code so she won't understand it, she will ask questions trying to figure it out. Even when she knows it's not meant for her. We have told her to stop listening to conversations that are not meant for her. But it seems like it's just getting worse. How do you discipline a problem like this? How do you get her to stop worrying and caring so much about what's going on with the adults? It's like she wants to be an adult and not a kid. Please help!

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Last-Wife's picture

Learn a foreign language. Seriously. I was a high school Spanish teacher when we first got married, so I taught DH basic Spanish so we could talk privately without the kids knowing what we were saying. Now that SS17 is in Spanish, DH and I are now learning sign language.

We also lock the bedroom door and run the shower so the kids can't listen in.

If she's nosy now, watch because she could take to peeking in drawers and things. I have my dresser drawers all "booby trapped" so I know when the kids have been in them...

Good luck
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