Are you aware of the unwritten rules?
Never talk about buying your child a pink toy, unless your child is a boy. Then he absolutely must have something pink and preferably a princess dress to go with it.
Do not make any spelling or grammatical errors. Your OP will be ignored, no matter how important the question until you have accepted your flogging for using to many exclamation marks.
You must have a full understanding of every allergy possible, anything that can contain these allergens and exactly how to treat them.
You must be up to date in all correct terminology and how people may identify themselves, anything less and you are an intolerant bigot.
You will need to LTB within 24 hrs of your op, otherwise you are ignoring advice people have spent time giving you, not to mention damaging your children by not immediately running for the hills without a plan.
You must have enough savings for any possible emergency, otherwise you are irresponsible and should have planned better.
You must have an in depth knowledge of every physical and mental health problem possible and be aware of exactly how to manage each one and how it might affect someone's life.
If you get a flaming you must return to your thread within ten minutes otherwise you have flounced and are ignoring well meaning advice.
AIBU?
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lunar1 · 24/03/2015 09:29
You must love redheads.
Any thread about DC or adults being bullied because of their hair colour turns into competative ginger loving. I rather like it 
not forgetting that if your mother/mil/sister/brother is a bitch/bastard from hell you shouldn't have an opinion about it because you need to be grateful that you even have a mother/mil/sister/brother because there are people whose family members are dead and oh what wouldn't they give to be able to bitch about them but they can't and therefore you shouldn't either.
I once started a thread about my then dh which was positive, and was told that it was insensitive to be positive about your husband on here because there were people in abusive/unhappy relationships. 
One of my favourites has to be that you can't show any pride in your child or make an offhand comment about something they do, without being accused of stealth boasting.
Yes stepmothers are automatically in the wrong. In fact start beating yourself with sticks now. DH is probably not doing enough and think of the poor XP - you selfish women trying to take over another woman's child! Oh and always go straight to A&E even with a tickly cough 
(cue posters declaring I know nothing about asthma etc)
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Even if your husband is best friends with a lingerie model who has the hots for him and they see each other several times a week you must not object..,if you do, then you are insecure, suspicious and don't believe men and women can have platonic friendships.
He might even have a work colleague who's drop dead gorgeous and he has to go away with her on a course for a weekend. You must certainly not feel a bit worried that something might happen. "Don't you trust him".
You also forgot to mention the money that should be put one side for a spa day 
Queenofknickers - spot on with the step parent comment. But if I ignore them and only give my DSS's the cupboard under the stairs to sleep in then that makes me some sort of monster?
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