Can't live with them and cant live without them. FI's son is 15, I've been in his life for the last 5 years. He was the "fat kid" up until this year. He now has gotten extremely tall and plays football. He's finally becoming sociable and has some really good friends from the football team as well as some of his other "misfit" friends from grade school.
He has one friend, who I swear is going to get him suspended. He comes home and tells me EVERYTHING! Who tries to fight him, who is talking about him, what he says back to them, which of his friends are drinking and doing drugs etc. Today he walks in and told me he got a suspension warning because 1 freshman, 1 junior and 1 senior tried to jump him after his science class because of this friend. He has anger issues to begin with and I keep working on this with him.
I don't remember this much fighting when I was in HS and it wasn't that long ago. Some days because I'm 4'11", I just want to meet him at school and give some of these punks a piece of my mind. His school asked me which class I was late for the last time I had to drop off his keys.
I just have to say being a step parent to a teenager is the best birth-control ever! It also freaks me out that we could possibly have children around the same age at one point. So weird!