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Submitted by Newstep on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 11:45am

This is a big deal to me but apparently I am the minority. Both BF and I smoke. We do not smoke in the house only outside. When I first moved in we would walk out side to smoke and SD was on our heels. I always walked away from her. I would never smoke in front of a child, I figure if I am going to harm my lungs my decision. Well BF never put any boundaries about it she was climbing all over him as he smoked. I made a point to tell him that wasn't good she has asthma and second hand smoke is the last thing she needs.

What is appropriate for co-parenting?

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Submitted by Newstep on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 6:30pm

Hi All

I have been thinking of this topic all day. In my situation my ex and I didn't really co-parent. I always took the lead in parenting when we were married and we divorced when our kids were really young. My kids are all grown now and looking back we really only came together as parents when there was an issue. Which lucky for us was not very often. We didn't discuss mundane daily details of the kids life. If one of them got in big trouble we addressed it as parents but that was about it.

Just a vent

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Submitted by Newstep on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 11:25am

Been with my BF for over a year and in the beginning he still catered to BM he slowly saw the light and has changed. So I don't have too much to complain about and the BM is pretty worthless as a mother but she leaves us alone for the most part.

How do you handle clothes with skids?

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Submitted by Newstep on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:31am

Hi everyone I have been around for a while but don't post much. I need some input from everyone. How do you handle school clothes shopping. My experience with my kids was that I bought everything they needed and kept it at my house their dad did the same (they wore uniforms untill high school) every Monday going back to their dads house they wore the clothes they had worn home the previous Monday. During the school year it was pretty easy.

Hi I am new here

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Submitted by Newstep on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 6:29pm

I am a BM to three kids been divorced 12 years and am lucky to have a great relationship with my kids SM. I lurked here a couple of years ago when I was dating a guy with kids who had guilt parenting down pat!! I saw so much of what I was dealing with in some of the stories here and decided that I was not ready to deal with that with him.

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