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Does your stepchildren get the same present wise off family members as DC who are blood related?

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Underthemoonlight · 19/11/2016 20:36

Just going off one of my other threads which also highlighted another issue that my ds1 from a previous relationship gets considerably less than his siblings who are related to DH parents. I'm just wondering if this is common practice or do they get treated the same. For background we are married and ds1 has been in DH life since the age of 2 he's now 8.

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crusoe16 · 21/11/2016 06:06

My parents buy DSD birthday and Christmas gifts. They wouldn't spend as much on her as the others but that wouldn't be obvious to the children on Xmas day (my parents often insist on paying for my DC's hobbies - they'll pay for DD's piano lessons or DS's cricket coaching - kids aren't made aware, it's actually a present for us in disguise I think)! Pretty much everyone else treats them all equally. Invariably DSD will get more than my DC as she gets another load of presents at her Mum's but my DC don't physically see that and they've never mentioned it being unfair. If they did they wouldn't get a lot of sympathy! Swings and roundabouts.....

LadyVampire · 22/11/2016 21:09

My step son and my daughter get the same budget from me and husband, my parents and my siblings. We feel it is so important they are both treated the same. Would be so shitty to give step son less due to genetics or "because his own mum and her family give presents". Would feel like punishing him for his parents not being together. So my step son will have more than his sister (he has his step dad too) but my daughter gets her dad everyday and forgetting all that the end line is they are siblings they are equal.

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