I have kids and my partner has kids - we have been together for some time and live separately at the moment. I tend to parent mine and let him parent his (ie, in discipline) I'm happy to care/nurture for all (ie, food,bathtimes) but I feel its up to the blood parent to discipline their own children and mostly this works out. We each have our kids 24/7 so neither get any child free time then at weekends we are all together. However, occasionally I will have all kids and so we will he and when we are responsible for all we discipline as necessary as i think issues should be dealt with at the time. Does this seem a reasonable approach?
It seems to mostly work, however, my gripe is I'm generally stricter with mine and his get away with more - though don't get me wrong he isnt a disney dad, I think sometimes he doesn't see/hear whats going on and sometimes he's just had enough! Sometimes I really have to bite my tongue to certain behaviour, ie, bad manners, rudeness, language etc - can anyone give me strategies to ignore and detach!'
Don't get me wrong most of the time they're good kids, its just they haven't been brought up by me with my rules!
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FedupofTurkey · 31/12/2012 15:34
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