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Submitted by myspoonistoobig on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 5:25pm

Your stepchildren are not your children. You are not responsible for the kind of people they are or the kind of people they will become.

From that online magazine for stepmoms.

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not your momma's picture

Submitted by not your momma on Sat, 07/06/2013 - 6:09pm

And...a quote to go with that: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

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Submitted by Bojangles on Sun, 07/07/2013 - 8:38am

Damned if you do and damned if you don't - so true, and so frustrating. When I tried to treat them like my own they were happy to accept the care but not the criticism. Now I don't want to engage with any of it they resent that too.