Rules in the household when Dad isn't around
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Okay so if you've been keeping up with me, you'd see that I am living full time with my stepmonst-- I mean, darling little step kids. Their father works nights & I stay home with them. Almost like a live in nanny *sigh*. I let SD15 go outside & she had a set time to come back. Well, she came back an hour and a half later, nonchalantly, waltzing in like there wasn't a problem. I told her father via phone message (of course he didn't answer) and I politely asked her to see maybe I told her that time and she said what I told her. So my question is, when your spouse's kid break a rule while they're away, do you take discipline action or wait until he/she comes home to do it (and possibly do nothing)?
Very true. It's even hard to
Very true. It's even hard to enforce those kind of rules with your own bio teen kids. I would do natural consequences like if she's not home by dinner then she gets it cold in the fridge or has to make her own. Lock the door and if you hear her knocking and go jump in the shower
Take the other kids to a movie or other fun outing without her, "you weren't home so we went without you."
let him handle it but in the
let him handle it but in the future tell her to ask her dad if she can do stuff and when she needs to be back
let him handle it but in the
let him handle it but in the future tell her to ask her dad if she can do stuff and when she needs to be back
let him handle it but in the
let him handle it but in the future tell her to ask her dad if she can do stuff and when she needs to be back
let him handle it but in the
let him handle it but in the future tell her to ask her dad if she can do stuff and when she needs to be back
let him handle it but in the
let him handle it but in the future tell her to ask her dad if she can do stuff and when she needs to be back
The rules are the rules
The rules are the rules regardless of who is present. Enforce the rules and apply consequences. Time for no digital media for a month or so and not leaving the house except for school.
Dad can add to that when he is home if he wishes but you are an equity parent in the home and you need to apply the consequences for violation of the household rules.