Has anyone else experienced creepy behavior with their stepson? I discussed in the past how he would basically sneak up on me and grope me inappropriately, but i've since put a stop to that. But there are still lots of behaviors i find a little disturbing. I don't have bio kids, so moms can you please tell me if this is normal kid stuff? Firstly he always tries to be as sneaky as possible when he enters a room i'm in. He peeks at me around doors and around corners and just stands there staring at me as though i can't see him. I put a door sweep on his bedroom door because i could see him laying on the floor looking under the door at me. I put frosted window film on his bedroom windows because he used to watch me doing yard stuff. When he first moved in with us fulltime (around 12) he would pace almost military style up and down our driveway with a cold look on his face for the entire 35 minutes til the bus came. That is literally the most physical activity i've ever seen him do. He did this every single morning for nearly a year until one day i asked him to please stop doing that because i can't imagine what the neighbors were thinking. Today i asked him how school was and he told me (very coldly) that his favorite part of the day was getting to slit the throat of a chicken in class. When he was 5 or 6 he told me out of nowhere " I have a very dark side, you just don't know it". He's very polite when speaking to me but it's not enjoyable because he's very manipulative and i've seen the real side of him more than a few times. I find it strange that he's almost putting on a good boy performance everytime he speaks to me. I used to think it was because he respected me and i was his primary disciplinarian but now as he's getting older it's just getting disturbing. When his grandmother is around ( she is one of my biggest thorns in my blended relationship) he gets very confident and he even speaks more relaxed and brazen. I do literally everything for him, it's as though i am a single parent because my husband spends zero time with him, even though i used to beg him to. So i'm not sure why this child acts so weird around me. It's causing me to treat him differently than i would like to. At this point i feel like i live with the creepy neighbor you're forced to make small talk with when checking your mailbox. Am i overreacting???