Step Talk

Confirmed it is not just my imagination. Skids are complete and official hellions! BM got married (covertly to us) and we have not heard from skids for over a week. BF and I went to a fancy restaurant to celebrate BF getting his name back. While at the restaurant I saw two very well behaved children probably ranging in age from 6 to 9. They sat politely and softly laughed and were enjoying themselves in a civilized manner. They were NOT:

-chewing with their mouths wide open spewing food and drink all over everyone
-climbing over the dinner table
-climbing under the dinner table
-swinging from stair railings, blocking patrons and staff
-laughing and screaming so loudly it sounds like a boeing jet taking off
-having burping contests
-saying “when is the food coming” about 40 or 50 times
-knocking over the food and drink
-saying “YUCK” to everything on the menu and demanding special orders
-wiping their hands and their mouths on their sleeves and pants and table
-throwing balled up napkins and putting straws up their noses
-kicking the table and seats

I saw the mother of the children in the restroom and complimented her on the behaviour of the children and how it was a breath of fresh air. I often used to get these types of compliments on my bio children and I could see the mother was pleased as she thanked me.

Then my bio son called to say he wanted us to meet his steady GF and he asked about some blockbuster tapes I made of him and his older sister back in August 1994. We had a lovely dinner and BF heard FIRST HAND how bio son had to WORK on the weekends on our rental property etc. (BF believed that my kids GOT A PASS compared to his precious angels) Well he heard otherwise and comparatively speaking the skids are so spoiled, lazy and jaded it’s not funny. My bio kids were completely DEPRIVED by skids standards.

So we popped in the tape and here was a composed, polite, cute, well behaved six year old (unlike stb 6 yr old SS who won’t speak in anything but monosyllabic grunting DEMANDS) who had perfect diction and expressed himself clearly. He was not bolting back and forth and jumping like SS does (I actually trained this out of bio son, clearly defining indoor behaviour/voice and outdoor behaviour/voice; something which BF and BM have completely failed to do through their, respectively, guilt parenting and phoning it in). BF saw the tape. I’m sure he is blind to the fact that his kids are so horribly behaved it isn’t funny; by contrast it is NIGHT and DAY!!!!