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New future Step-Mom needs help with probable ODD child
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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 415995" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>You are clearly trying to help this boy but I think you need to take a good, hard look at DF. His #1 responsibility is to his son and he appears to be failing miserably. You don't say how long DF was married to his wife, it is quite possible that the boy sees her as his 'mother figure' if she was around when he was younger. With mom flitting in and out of his life and dad working most of his waking hours, she may have been his only source of stability (so here continuing contact with the boy is GOOD). Now, despite his dad still be married to his step-mom, he has spent the last year living with dad and dad's mistress. He is enveloped in all of the angst of puberty and trying to figure out how boys relate to girls. Add in a neurological condition (ADHD) and I am not at all surprised that the child is oppositional.</p><p></p><p>I think the best thing you can do for this child is to insist that his dad step up and BE A DAD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 415995, member: 1169"] You are clearly trying to help this boy but I think you need to take a good, hard look at DF. His #1 responsibility is to his son and he appears to be failing miserably. You don't say how long DF was married to his wife, it is quite possible that the boy sees her as his 'mother figure' if she was around when he was younger. With mom flitting in and out of his life and dad working most of his waking hours, she may have been his only source of stability (so here continuing contact with the boy is GOOD). Now, despite his dad still be married to his step-mom, he has spent the last year living with dad and dad's mistress. He is enveloped in all of the angst of puberty and trying to figure out how boys relate to girls. Add in a neurological condition (ADHD) and I am not at all surprised that the child is oppositional. I think the best thing you can do for this child is to insist that his dad step up and BE A DAD. [/QUOTE]
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