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Originally Posted by Scott@Bjorn3D

It is really tough because my step-daughters dad was killed when they where real little. So in raising them my wife has the main disciplinary role with them. So the girls have pretty much gotten whatever they want. I am the one that will come down on them about breaking stuff and rooms being junky and things like that.

I hope with Jackie once she gets out in the real world in 7 months (Going off to College) she will see that some things I tried to teach her about life and money will start to sink in. Right now she gets a dime she spends it, major shopping freak. I have been making her pay for most of her car repairs and she does have a job now and is paying for most of her stuff.

Stephanie is just know where near the level of starting to understand life as Jackie is. She has talked her mom into letting her drop out of public school and take online schooling. That starts this next semester. I do not know if Stephanie will ever graduate from high school with that happening.

Very frustrating. OUR son, who I actually get to discipline hardly ever gets in trouble and is a straight A student. He does chores and gets paid for doing them. Heck he even was selected to take the ACT college entrance exams and took them last week with Jackie. He acts up from time to time but no where near what Stephanie did at his age or now.

I love my wife and the kids and that is why I stay in our marriage, Stephanie has been trying to get us to get a divorce since she was little. Has had DHR called on me twice. Never time did they find anything. One time the took her to the doctor with brusies on her upper arm and she said I grabbed her. The doctor look at it and said can't you people even see the teeth marks? She had sucked and bitten her own arm trying to cause a problem,

Why am I talking about this here you may say? Well I take allot of you have kids you have raised and may give me some advice or at least someone to discuss it with.

Did you read my post in this thread? its #16. Also allowing her to dropout of public school is a big no,no imo. Do she even have the discipline to get her work done at home if she is having problems behaving at home? I smell disaster. BTW you pretty much identified a key problem in your first paragraph. Also get rid of "Step Dad" mentality, your the Dad...period...