NYS Steptalkers.

Do any of you know what constitutes truancy in NYS? If you do, would you please send me a private message? I have a question but don't want to blast it out all over ST in case BM has found this site.

Thank you.

MJL

This twin is an entitled, spoiled, lazy little so-and-so. A couple of weeks ago, the night after the birthday dinner luxury fiasco, he heard some things he didn't like and immediately got on his phone and began texting BM. I told him to stop, then I brought them out to make dinner with me. But he got on phone after that. Guess what? All messages from that night and the week that followed have been deleted and BM has changed her iCloud password.

I teach yoga, for goodness' sake. I am a teacher. I have patience for the most frustrating kids day in and day out at school. I try to "walk the walk" where mindfulness, breath, compassion, and ease are concerned. I used to be a really good parent and once I even approached step-parenting with my heart in the right place.

Now? I seem to always let the skids get the better of me. Their foul attitudes, constant backchat, and other things make all good stuff about me fly out the window. I rant and yell and swear in front of my own kids. I feel out of control.

My skids seem to think that they are deserving of the most luxurious items in every facet of their lives- mattresses, footwear, fancy foods. Tonight's fiasco took place at a restaurant, celebrating DD's 10th birthday- they wanted to order the filet mignon hibachi, for like $28 each. DH not speaking to me because I told them "no" and that since we are a family of seven, we don't order the higher-priced things on the menu on the rare occasion that we go out. They are eleven-year-old twin boys and these issues come up all the time.