Is this why SKIDs grow up to hate us?
As I mentioned in my last blog entry, my SD7 is an attention whore.
I usually never care about what she wants to show me...which is usually her booty-shaking. But I pretend like I do. I congratulate her when she shows me things she made in school and I say they are nice, even though I really could care less.
I'm afraid eventually I won't be able to hide it. And she'll tell me that I always made her feel that she wasn't good enough for me. The sad truth is...she's not really. She aspires to me like her mother. she wants to dress like her. Her mother buys her the most inappropriate clothes for a little girl. A lot of her clothes now are inappropriate and the after school program lady spoke to DH about it one evening.
My mother was hard on me, but it made me gain character. She always pushed me to be an intellectual.Regardless, my husband's parenting style is "let her express herself". Which is FINE. I'm all for that, as long as she's not being inappropriate.
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Additionally I have severe
Additionally I have severe overprotection and favoritism issues when it comes to BD2. And I'm starting to feel less and less guilty about that because well....She actually listens to me. I won't steer her wrong.I won't steer SD7 wrong either but she is hellbent on becoming a mini-me of BM.
Well also it's things
Well also it's things like...she'll show me some letter she wrote. Or something that required her to write. And her spelling is horrific. All i can think of is to tell her what she spelled wrong, so that she can improve it and think about how she spells things. DH will just say "great job, [SD's name], that's really nice!" Afterall, teachers are going to correct it so the way I see it, i'm just setting her up for success.
Or i'll even try to be nice about it and say "this is very nice, but you spelled [insert mispelled words] wrong. Use a dictionary to figure out how to spell things.
I could be hard at her because I was a very advanced child. I have a high IQ and i've always been great at it. I try to be understanding and patient. But it's bad enough this child won't sit down and crack open a book.
Additionally, she is a know-it-all. "I bet I can run faster than you. I bet you don't know how to spell watermelon." It is super annoying.
YES BM got 17 Fs in high
YES BM got 17 Fs in high school. She went to summer school every year in high school. She is as dumb as a sack of bricks.
My skids speak horribly. Did
My skids speak horribly. Did you know that TOOKEN was a word? SMDH!! I want for them to be perceived as well educated, intelligent kids not the redneck trailer trash BM aspires to be. It frustrates me so much. BM just laughs and laughs at their lack of language skills and thinks its cute....really, being an illiterate idiot is cute??
I have to stop myself sometimes as the skids see my correcting them as picking on them....thank you BM for not supporting them speaking correctly and blaming me for pointing out that they need to pick their words from actual words.
SMDH
Though I would never favor my
Though I would never favor my bio over my stepchildren, I find my stepdaughter incredibly annoying. She has one of those LOOK AT ME personalities. She literally is constantly asking me to look at her. Its exhausting after a bit.