I am SO PROUD of my DH. We had a great conversation last night about "stepping up" to parenting. I talked to him about some things I have seen on here and we agreed that we need to be more consistant with all the kids and we are working on some ideas for "consequences".

What I am so proud of, though is the fact that we discussed SD's horrible grades already this year and how we can get through to her on this topic. Knowing that this girl had just attended summer school (for two failed subjects) this past summer, I suggested that he tell his daughter if she fails this year, he won't be paying for her to attend summer school--she will just have to repeat 8th grade. OR...if BM wants to pay for summer school, she can, but he will not be responsible for any part of it...BM will have to take care of dropping off and picking up, too. DH really thought this was a great idea and plans on telling SD exactly that. I am so proud of him! He actually said he didn't care if she had to repeat the 8th grade 4 or 5 times, he was going to "get through to her".