So, like many others, I can't stand my sd. And she lives with us about 5 days a week, EVERY week. I want to pull out my hair. She consistently talks while chewing at each meal, even though she is told daily to chew and swallow before speaking. She trashes her room and then leaves it with dirty socks and clothes and goes off to her mom's house, and I have to pick it all up or else she won't have anything to wear all week long. She sucks her fingers and sits on the couch with her fingers in her mouth or the end of a blanket and a finger in her mouth. My biggest pet peeve, she shreds apart soft blankets and stuffed animals to make "fuzzies" that she carries in her pocket and hides everywhere to suck on at school or at night while sleeping. The one chore she is supposed to do, feed the cat, she does as sloppily as possible. Our cat has digestive problems and can only have small bowl of food, so she piles it overflowing all over the floor, the cat eats all the food and throws up all over. She also leaves him with an empty water dish. I honestly think that she has issues stemming from her mom walking out on her on Mother's Day when she was 3, and then being pregnant nonstop making more kids. But no one will take her to a therapist or mention any of her behaviors to the family doctor, or at least get a specialist involved at school. And her dad (my fiancee) is a good dad, I think he tries to make the best of being left with a kid and raising her, but he is SO DAMNED SELF-ABSORBED. He spends all his free time on the couch, playing poker on his smart phone, or playing a video game. I resent that, since I take my child to a therapist, have to deal with school social workers and pshychologists, her peditrician, I attend ADD support groups, and I work a full time job, not to mention I enroll my child in a few activities so she doesn't feel that we concentrate on her illness day in and day out and she gets to have fun. ugh, sorry to go on, it's been a LONG week...