Lisa W

My almost 13 year old step-daughter stole $20 out of my purse, and tried to sneak it back once I discovered the money missing.

I grounded her for 30 days to her room, loss of priveleges, made her write 1,000 sentences of "Stealing is wrong and I will never steal again", and gave her a lecture of her lifetime. She also attempted to steal $2 from her grandfather a week ago and put it back in his wallet.

My house rule is that there is no trick or treating beyond 6th grade. This would be my step-daughters last year to go and dad believes we should give her an exception to go trick-or-treating although she's committed a serious offense in our household.

Her father thinks I have gone way overboard on punishment and he thinks I'm being excessive a "more appropriate" punishment should have been 1 week groundation and write 500 sentences "I will not get in others personal belongings". His thought is that she gave it back and she's "learned her lesson". The only reason she gave it back is because I discovered it was missing and announced it to all our children that I expect it to return to my purse since no one was willing to admit taking the $20 and I told them they'd all get grounded til spring if no one confessed. We finally got it narrowed down to our two girls with the threat of a lie detector test as a scare tactic and thus we eventually got a confession.

I am very concerned about her lying and her stealing and I think this is a very very serious matter that cannot go undealt with. I would give my own 3 children the very same punishment had one of my children done this to him or anyone else.

This is a very heated issue between my husband and I. What do you all think?

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What rights does a step-parent hold in regard to visitation with my son? I hold physical custody of my son. My ex works nights and refuses to allow me rights to visitation while he is at work. He's remarried so my son is in the care of the step-mother while he's at work who constantly verbally badger's my son, talks mean, and my son pretty much hates her. My ex believes she is the perfect step-mother on the contrary. I have filed a modification of parent visitation and have a pending hearing in May. My ex states that his wife (step-mother) is an extension of him and she has the right to vsitation instead of me during his scheduled visitation. Does anyone know the answer to this or have gone to court over this very same issue?

What rights does a step-parent hold in regard to visitation with my son? I hold physical custody of my son. My ex works nights and refuses to allow me rights to visitation while he is at work. He's remarried so my son is in the care of the step-mother while he's at work who constantly verbally badger's my son, talks mean, and my son pretty much hates her. My ex believes she is the perfect step-mother on the contrary. I have filed a modification of parent visitation and have a pending hearing in May. My ex states that his wife (step-mother) is an extension of him and she has the right to vsitation instead of me during his scheduled visitation. Does anyone know the answer to this or have gone to court over this very same issue?

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Please please answer this for us women. I share children with my Ex and when he's single...he's genuine, nice, and easy to get along. BUT when he gets a new girlfriend, he's cold, distant, hard to get along with and somewhat arrogant. (For those of you wondering....No I haven't done anything to provoke him.) WWHHHYYYYY is this? Please shed some light or I'm going to have to hurt him!

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