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Avant
Thank you.  It is sometimes baffling to me to see how much she picked up in such a short time.

posted by bel_1965 on May 26, 2006 at 6:09 AM | link to this | reply

Corbin
Thanks so much!!!

posted by bel_1965 on May 26, 2006 at 6:08 AM | link to this | reply

MsVision

Oh heavens NO!!!  No help please....I don't have the time for her help LOL!  She is very well meaning but a disaster in the kitchen.  We are working on that LOL!

I was really bothered by the fact that she made the assumption without asking.  She has recently taken on the attitude that my sole job is to do whatever she wants me to do and gets a major attitude when I don't.  So, yes I was irritated.  As usual, I am over it by morning.

posted by bel_1965 on May 26, 2006 at 6:07 AM | link to this | reply

i always get really grumpy when I'm tired and you sound a bit tired
It sounds as though your step daughter adores you because you do nurture her. At 12 though she should be helping you bake 16o cookies.

posted by MsVision on May 26, 2006 at 6:02 AM | link to this | reply

To me.....

It sounds like you're doing  just fine.........in the long run she will appreciate your controls....discipline is not a means of punishing.....but training for the real world.

Hope you got your rest........

posted by Corbin_Dallas on May 26, 2006 at 5:56 AM | link to this | reply

bel
I'm afraid you answered your own question. Your last paragraph stated very precisely where this attitude came from. Someone has showed her through example that working for things is unnecessary. If you persist and explain to her that valuing things takes work, patience, and the delay of immediate gratification, I'm sure she will come around.

posted by avant-garde on May 26, 2006 at 3:24 AM | link to this | reply

Not unless you are making them
Goodnight, the cupcakes are done and I am also going to bed!

posted by bel_1965 on May 25, 2006 at 8:17 PM | link to this | reply

So we won't be eating "victory cupcakes" after you are
done with the butt-kicking?  (Goodnight by the way!)

posted by FactorFiction on May 25, 2006 at 8:15 PM | link to this | reply

Taps
Kids are really good at this type of thing.  Unfortunately both funding and time are way too limited for me to pull this off.  And...to be very honest, I needed for Pam to understand that she cannot simply EXPECT me to do things without checking with me.  She is 12 or will be in about 10 hours and old enough to understand that she has to consider me in all of this.

posted by bel_1965 on May 25, 2006 at 7:46 PM | link to this | reply

Bel, this reminds me of something that I hadn't thought of in years.   When Mark was in the sixth grade, his class sponsored a "foods from around the world" tasting party for the 4th, 5th & 6th grade classes and their mothers (who were to furnish the foods from their own cultural roots).   Most of the families were of Italian heritage so there was a lot of biscotti and such.   Of course Mark forgot to tell me until the day before that he had volunteered me for a Czechoslovakian houska which is a major undertaking and only made by my mother at Christmas time.   I spent the whole night up working on it but the result was appreciated and it was the first thing completely gone.

posted by TAPS. on May 25, 2006 at 7:41 PM | link to this | reply