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redheaded_stepmom's picture

Ok, we are a little over a week into what was supposed to be a two week grounding for SD for the beer drinking episode. She was originally grounded from computer, phone, and social priveleges. She has still been giving us problems about taking her medication. Yesterday, I caught her putting the phone back on the charger in my room after having had it in her room all night. She told me she had used it the day before to call a friend about homework (without asking) and forgot to put it back (I'm already thinking that is a load of BS). I told her that if she would have come and asked us if she could make that phone call we would have let her and that she had better not sneak around and go against the terms of her grounding anymore. DH also had a more in depth chat with her about it yesterday afternoon. I also asked her why she had not taken her pills again yesterday after DH had told her that if she skipped taking them again he would be taking her door off the hinges of her room and she would be getting up with him in the mornings so that he can make sure she takes her pills. She fumbled around for an answer trying to tell me that she remembered taking them, that she remembered opening the pill box for that day. What a load of crap! Anyway, the door is now gone. It was only going to be for a week, but....not more than 2 HOURS later she got caught on the phone with her boyfriend! I went into my room to get something and noticed the phone off the charger, so I KNEW she had it. Something funny had happened earlier while DH and I were in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner and we didn't know what to make of it, but now it all made sense. The phone had rung in an odd pattern and when DH picked it up it dialed a number and started ringing. A male voice picked up the phone on the other end and acted very confused to hear DH's voice and hung up. Very strange at the time, but when I found out SD was hiding out in the basement on the phone it all made sense. She had tried to call him and had the phone ring back because his line was busy. When I caught her and told her to get off the phone and then asked her who she was talking to, she refused to tell me. She just sat there looking at me with this stupid look on her face like I was speaking a foreign language or something. When she didn't answer me, I turned and walked away telling her if she didn't feel like telling me, maybe she would rather tell her father. She did NOT like that one bit, but I just kept on walking and told DH that I had caught her on the phone and that she was not telling me who she was talking to. I don't know exactly what happened after that because I went upstairs to give my BK's a bath and get them ready for bed, but I know that DH went down in the basement and had it out with her. He told her that she is now grounded for an extra week (we are still taking a trip to Amsterdam for her birthday next week), the basement is off limits, and if she puts even a hair out of line again in the next two weeks of being grounded, there will be major consequences. I am in disbelief as to what is going on. I cannot believe that she is STILL not learning from her mistakes. Will she ever? I am doing everything I can to try and disengage completely from this girl, but I will NOT be disrespected in my own home. I don't know who the hell she thinks she is pulling some of the crap she's been pulling lately, but I have HAD it!

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Tre_Lin's picture

OMG. You don't deserve that. Why should she be able to have an awesome birthday trip to Amsterdam if you she can't follow the rules or respect you? Even it the trip is for her birthday, she doesn't deserve it. She needs to work and be a cooperating family member of your household to get special things. I can't even imagine what it's like. But it sounds like you are doing all you can with her. I hope everything works out for you!

redheaded_stepmom's picture

Thank you. I don't think we should still be taking her on the trip, either, but some friends of ours are the ones that set it all up and my husband does not think it would be right to back out on them. Reservations have been made, yada yada. I already didn't want to go on the trip in the first place because I am having to leave my two youngest with friends (that's a whole other story). DH tries to be all assertive and stern with SD, but all she has to do is turn on the waterworks and he gets all soft on her, and she knows it. Really pisses me off. Put your foot down and mean it for crying out loud!

CaliStepMomma's picture

Sounds just like my sister - the pills, the door off the hinges, the doing shit, thinking she won't be caught and then not learning from it. She's 21 now and going to be transferring into a state university in the fall. So, you know, some kids are just, uh, well, you know...special?