Dear Abby: My husband and I finally had the custody of her daughter “Amelia” 15 days before the 16th anniversary. It came to us with schooling at home and low socialization. She is 18 years old now and we have set it on a good way to graduate, but she has completely changed. He plans to move with his boyfriend and he is jumping school.
My husband feels that we cannot put ourselves in this regard, since we are only two years old. We have had three boys who have graduated and two girls who are not yet. We made the boys (their stepsons) go to school every day and lived at home until they graduated. We will do the same with our younger girls.
Abby, why amaze me to say -Amelia that she can’t move until after graduating, especially not with her boyfriend, or to get in her school all the time?
‘Step to Kansas
Dear Stern Stepmom: Your husband may be afraid that Amelia will be too unpleasant to reason and worry about, if he affirms himself, his daughter will move away.
You described yourself as “Stern Stepmom”. If the way to prove that it is insisting that your husband’s children graduate with basic education, I do not consider it heavy. However, if there are more things, Amelia may move to move away from you.
Maybe a different approach can be more effective. Amelia is big enough to talk to “woman to woman”. If you can impress that you and your father only care about their well -being, that the decisions you now make will affect your whole future, you may be more open to listening to your message. The fact that it moves is less important than not completing your training and obtaining this high school diploma. Let your focus be when you and her father talk to her.
Dear Abby: I have a co -worker who likes to cook. It is actually wonderful and provides an article in the oven for our birthdays. We have a small office of six.
Unfortunately, he has a few coolers of plug-in in his kitchen, so that all the articles he brings to share are saturated with perfume. No one means anything because it is extremely sensitive and it would be crushed. Is there a way to put it gently?
—Dentant —Lo in Washington
Dear Tasting: If the oil of its air air fresheners is transferred to the goodies provided by your collaborator, someone must leave it discreetly and talk. A sentence way that would be:
“You are always so generous in bringing birthday goodies for everyone, and we appreciate it a lot. But the last time we tried your fabulous chocolate cake we saw the smell of the jungle garden (or the alpine pine, etc.). Do you think it could have caused its refreshing air?
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