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Labors Lost: Laments on the Thankless Nature of Raising Someone Else’s Child
Reflecting on the thankless nature of raising someone else's child. Being a step-parent isn't easy. Who knew?
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Working My Nerves
Even after the divorce the ex continues to pin the blame for random things on me. He is working my every last nerve.
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Fuck Father’s Day
Father's Day used to mean something. But when the father of your children is a douchebag, what is there to celebrate? Not all men make good fathers.
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Prom Nightmare
Pop quiz hot-shot: Your 17-year-old tells you on Monday night he needs money for prom tickets cause he asked a girl to go and she said yes. Tuesday night you find out the prom is in 3 days and Wednesday is the last day to buy tickets and there is no money in the budget for this last-minute expense… What do you do? What do you do??!! Well, if the 17-year-old in question is my hapless step-son, notorious for misinformation and bad decisions, I say NO, along with an accompanying hour lecture on the consequence of his piss-poor planning, done mostly for the husband’s benefit, as he was looking like…
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Drinking the Haterade
I took a swig of the haterade while I was reading some posts on my facebook page this morning (see, this is why I shouldn’t even get on facebook). I had a fb friend post a link to a blog about mothering. Then I read, on that blog, her manifesto on parenting, and though I agree with her notions in general, she lost me at the part about gentle discipline. I can only assume, due to her overall tone, that she must be the parent of small children and is NOT in a blended family.
