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Step kids or built in embarassments?

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Submitted by baseballgirly on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 11:42pm

Just looked through some pictures my sister took of all the cousins.... My skids are the oldest in the family out of all my neices and nephews.. (7 kids altogether) and of course out of all the kids, it's my oldest skid (10) pictured with his finger in his nose.... completly oblivious to the rest of the world. I worry if they maybe a little too sheltered about what is acceptable in public and what isn't?? Does their mom just refuse to teach them?? Of course I'm the "Step Monster" when it's always me telling them to stop stuff like that!! Like peeing on seats, eating with mouths open, nose picking... etc.

Anyone else suffer this problem?

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Submitted by Auteur on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 9:18am

I vowed never to eat out in public with GG's feral peccories ever again. Too many patrons giving me hates stares as though the chimps on crack were mine.

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Submitted by ctnmom on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:54am

My psuedo step, CTBB, ate with a baby fork until he was 12. But not in MY house of course! He would say,"it's so harrrrd to eat herrreee" as I constantly kept his fingers off his plate and made him cut his own meat! Too funny!

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Submitted by baseballgirly on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 4:01pm

Oh man!!! I didn't even skim the surface of eating with hands and fingers!! These kids, especially the older one, has to get full hands on for every meal!! Knife and fork be damned, that kid is going to eat the way HE wants to. Until I pipe up and mention something, his dad will let him eat like that. It's gross. I hate eating with them. SS10 even pulls apart chocolate bars with his fingers just to pick it apart. I'm not sure what he enjoys about it..

SS8 can't cut his own food yet... it seems neither parent is teaching him. They give him the utensils... but don't show him what to do and then make him do it. they still cut his up nice and bite size. Makes me sick how spoiled that one is.

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Submitted by baseballgirly on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:20pm

AND out of all 7 kids, if one of them is going to start crying or tattletale on another... it's usually my skids. Sad

They have absolutely no social skills. They want to play with other kids and are good at sharing, but any conflict at all results in tears and whinning. I don't like them coming to my own family events but I have a hard time telling SO that I don't want them to come. Like Christmas Dinners and stuff. That's when all the family is around and SOs kids are the ones that can't get along with the rest and just sit at our feet and pout all night. I'd rather they don't come. SO has the option of at least asking his Ex if they could trade weekends... but he never ever asks for fear of "putting her out". He'd rather I be mad than her. Ugh. Damn skids and all that goes with it.