As I stated in post above, my 17yo is wanting to be valedictorian. She is No.1 academically in her senior class taking college credit AP classes ~ AP trig and calculus ~ 102 average. (I can barely spell calculus) She works all day on the internet filling out applications for scholarships. She already has 3 small ones. She also works parttime to pay her part of the car insurance and cell bill. She is my girlfriend’s daughter. We all live in this house together. I have known her since she was a baby and she calls me ‘dad’.
My neighbor’s son is a delinquent. Goth type kid, white makeup and black lipstick. He got in trouble with the police for starting some fires in my neighborhood and got caught smoking pot at 16. The adults hate each other. She rules him and he hates her for it. I can tell in his voice and the way they talk to each other that they truly hate each other and are very miserable. The kid takes special classes because he is behind in his grades. Its not that he can’t do it. He just don’t care. And curses his parents all the time.
They go to church every Sunday and Wednesday and have been married for 25 years.
Thats the reason I normally stay away from these threads. Because as soon as I mention that me and Ms.ShBox are not married and live together with our kids, I get accused of contributing to all ills of society...that my kids are going to be drug addicts....that I am causing crime and the kids would be better off with their real father (the one who beat their mother and belonged to the KKK)....one FReeper actually said that his insurance rates are high because of me and he would lock his doors at night if he lived next to me. That FReeper said this from 700 miles away without ever meeting me or my family.
And yet somehow that FReeper is sure that my neighbor’s kid is on the right track simply because the parents are married. I just don’t get it...