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[MrsWickens]

I HATE WEEKENDS hate hate hate hate hate them! I hate feeling like I'm in the way. I hate the noise. I hate the rudeness. I hate the fighting, shouting, whinging, stomping upstairs and slamming doors. This is not conducive to relaxing which is what I always thought the weekend was for - to relax and regroup before work/school on Monday.

My children don't behave this way and are polite to my boyfriend so why can't his children behave and be polite to me?

Sorry just a rant! Need to do it on here before I scream

Does their dad try to get them to behave like reasonable human beings? I have stepkids but no way would DH allow them to behave like that.

It's hard when they're not your kids. My kids are always stomping upstairs and the eldest it 5 (dreading the teen years). It's not on that they're being rude to you though. Your boyfriend needs to pull them up on it and fast.

DSD used to be like that with me - not listening (still doesn't sometimes), pulling faces at me behind dh's back, tantrums and more. It changed slowly when I started pulling her up for it in front of DH and he read her the riot act and told her it was unacceptable to treat me like that and tantrums got her nowhere but ignored instead of bribed and what she wanted like get mother did.

It will have to come from both of you though and you need to stick together. If you wouldn't let your dc behave in a certain way then you new to tell your dsc that its not okay.

He's getting better at telling them off but always seems to give in to them. He's desperate for them to like him even though I tell him he's their dad not their friend.

I wish I had a hideout that I could go to on the weekends but that would not be fair on my own children.