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- WARNING - VENTING!!!!!!! -

OK - I have HAD IT with the boogers!!!!! I can't take it anymore!! If I find one more slimy, bloody, DISGUSTING booger wiped on the couch, or the seat of my car, or my infant son's blankie, I'm seriously going to lose it, people!!

Issue 1- what skids want has to be done imeadieatly, they call the shots, they run the show end of story.
Issue 2- hubby works long hours so I get home first the kids go out and do activities and things and dh will tell them to go and at the last possible min. Tells me I have to go pick them up or take them somewhere and if I don't pick them up they are stuck somewhere so I'm backed right in a corner, he literally Waits till they are already there to tell me I have to go get them

What's the going rate for chores these days?

Making a chore list for the skids. I have a range of simple and harder things that they can choose from, and right now the allowance associated with it ranges from .50 - 1.50. Is that normal?

If they complete two chores they get a sticker on their already existing reward chart (we give stickers for nice manners, doing helpful things without being asked, etc).

I'd love to hear what kind of things you have your kids do for chores and allowance and that amounts you give. Thanks!

I need to mentally do this. How can i disengage when SS7 lives with us FULL TIME?? Seriously what are some successful ways. Thanks

Where to begin... I am new to this forum, or even going out to reach for help, and vent. Please excuse my ignorance since I do not know what a lot of the acronyms mean. However, I will do my best to learn them. Please correct me if I've used the acronyms wrong.

A little background: I am married to my darling husband (DH) for 2 year now. He has two exwives, and he has a daughter with each of them. My DH and the first exwife, Bowl Movement (BM1) has a daughter, so my stepdaughter (SD1) age 11. The second exwife (BM2)with my SD2 age 2.

So our CPS case is set to close out tomorrow (3months early). CPS let BM take SS9 and SD14 to Arkansas for a 2 week vacation even though the property ought to be condemned by the health department. DH hasn't seen SS in 7 weeks, because he had to go out of state on business and then when we got back they were leaving for AR. Our court date is tomorrow and BM was supposed to have the kids back in TX yesterday. Cps set this visitation up a week ago! Well, they didn't leave until this morning and now they are having car trouble, but the visitation is still on, unless we hear otherwise.

Update from my "I want a baby melt down". I have been so depressed since then and for whatever reason I really do want a baby but I am making myself wait until I figure out the underlining reasons why I want one. I never wanted one before.

Hi all, it has been a while since I last posted as things have been going along ok. Little background, I am bio mom to 15 and 19 sons, and stepmom to 16 and 13 sd's. My dh and I have been together for 4 years and married for a little over 1.

My oldest sd has turned into a royal nightmare. She is staying out all night, taking off in the middle of the night when we are asleep, being completely disrespectful to her dad (and me but that is nothing new), basically doing whatever the hell she wants to when she wants to.

After reading many posts, I feel I may be fortunate that my DH and BD did not have much of a relationship - it was a 2 month fling - so there is very little "baggage" in that area. BD was very involved from the beginning - going to and paying for doctors visits, (they briefly discussed living together but BM decided against it).