‘Entitled stepson stole money from me but his parents won’t discipline him’
Negotiating a blended family can be very difficult, particularly when it comes to figuring out who should discipline the children. And for one stepdad this has proved all the more complicated after he discovered his stepson had been stealing money from him.
Revealing the 12-year-old boy is normally well-behaved, he admitted he couldn’t wrap his head around why he had been recently misbehaving. Sharing his problem on social media, the stepdad also added that the money that had been stolen was supposed to be going towards Christmas. He went on: “I was going to take my family and we caught him red-handed this weekend. His actual father, who I’ve told, is very upset and my wife is shocked.”
Understandably very angry, the man admitted he didn’t act in the best way and exploded on the young boy. He went on: “I was very furious because he is stealing large sums of money for some time now. I yelled at him try to get him to sit down he wouldn’t, so I put my hands on him, grabbed him to sit down and get to the bottom of this. He eventually storms out and wait in the car and calls his dad.”
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After the 12-year-old’s father arrived, he, the man, and his wife talked for a bit on what to do. He went on: “His dad suggested that we wait a day for the tension to die down. I wanted to get to the bottom of this right there and then. He said no we wait. I didn’t like that decision because all that does is make us wait longer to figure things out.”
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The stepdad then revealed that what upset him even more was that his stepson’s father refused to discipline him over it. He continued: “I suggest for discipline we should take his phone off his hands but his dad disagreed, arguing that because he paid for the phone and he pays monthly for it, so doesn’t want to waste it! In my opinion, it does not matter whether you’re paying for it or not you punish your kid when he does something is wrong!
“The next day we’re all supposed to group up and talk about this and we come to find out that his dad said he is staying with him for the whole week and will go from there. I love my stepson, but when he shows me no respect or doesn’t really listen to me, I’m honestly at the edge of just checking out as a stepparent.”
The difficult story was shared on Reddit and people reading were left shocked by the 12-year-old and his dad. One person wrote: “Go on vacation without him. He stole the money for that. He doesn't get to go.”
Another person added: “Dad is using it as an excuse to villainize you and make himself Superman. Let him keep him for the week and watch it blow up in his face now that the kid will be looking to spend a bunch of money he can’t possibly earn. He is excusing stealing hundreds of dollars for a family Christmas trip? What a joke.”
And someone else penned: “Do not take this kid on any trip until he can clearly see the error in his ways and how badly he violated his entire family. I would also say ‘Merry Christmas you owe me X dollars’ and subtract whatever you would have spent on him for gifts this year. He can pay you the balance, either through chores or an actual job.”
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