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Oooh, I am seething.
The stepdaughter (the same one I was generously considering giving birthday presents to earlier today) has for the third time in a row put off a large homework project entirely until the weekend with us. It's perfectly understandable that she will have homework on the weekends sometimes, but in every case so far she has had to work literally all weekend to manage to get it done, and has needed significant prodding and encouragement to keep on task. Her mother's explanation for why this has happened yet again is that Stepdaughter told her she couldn't make her do her homework, and she had to reluctantly agree.
Oh HELL no. I don't know what sort of planet her mother lives on, but it's called discipline, and we have a plentiful harvest of it on our planet. In only the most literal sense is one unable to take her hand to the paper and force her to do the work. I have a wide variety of motivating tools at my disposal, and she will be presented with several this weekend.
I can't even decide if I'm more pissed at the mother for being a shitty mother, or at the stepdaughter for trying to pull this crap when she knows damn well her mother is going to tell us about it. She would never dream of mouthing off to either of us like that.
I have a small but unshakeable suspicion that she's deliberately pulling these stunts in order to force her mother to let her come live with us. I honestly don't know how I'd feel about that. There are a lot of issues tied in with it, both for and against.
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