Step-DD refuses to wear a mask
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Anonymous
She just will have her friends pick her up; all are driving. I do not want to get involved as a step-parent. |
Anonymous
Your spouse needs to step up and parent. |
Anonymous
She could kill you with what she's doing. You are allowed to get involved. |
Anonymous
| If there is not you can do about it, then she has to wear a mask at home and eat her dinner in her room. |
Anonymous
WAY too dramatic. Seriously. What is wrong with you? |
Anonymous
| You are an adult in the house. You need to take the car or dad needs to step up and take the car. Get her tons of masks so when she loses them, you always have another to give her. |
Anonymous
This is your home and if you have other kids, even worse. You have a husband/Dad issue and I would take the car. |
Anonymous
| OP, we have tenants in our house from January until now, including people from overseas. We never required them to wear masks and we are totally fine. |
Anonymous
Masks are not mandatory where you live? |
Anonymous
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1) Her dad needs to deal with this, not you
2) Her dad needs to tell her that if she won't wear a mask then she cannot be anywhere near the family so she will have to live in the basement and figure her meals out 3) if your husband won't tell her this then you need to tell him that he needs to stay in the basement |
Anonymous
Then this is incredibly easy: No mask, no car. She has zero need to go anywhere right now. There is no school, sports, work or internships that she needs to go to. She is showing you she can’t handle the responsibility—believe her. Confiscate the car keys. |
Anonymous
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Don’t come too close to her at home, if possible. Try to not have family dinners. Make excuses to eat early and leave food for her. Don’t clean the bathroom she uses. She should be anyway at her age. Hopefully you don’t need to share a bathroom.
You can’t kick her out. You can demand she wear a mask and she can comply but she will take it off the second she is around the corner and out of view. It’s the age and all of your insisting isn’t going to do anything. Continue to have calm discussions about how it is important for all of you to not take any chances bringing anything to her mother and how wearing a mask is needed for her mom’s safety. |
Anonymous
No brainer, parent. No mask, no car, no mask, no money. Your DH needs to sit her down and explain all of this to her. If he doesn't you do it. Explain to her now she's not that special. |
Anonymous
What is wrong with you? She could kill her. What don't you understand? I am not a drama queen at all, but until people start taking this seriously nothing is going to change. Let her come live with you if it isn't that big of a deal. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but dear lord you people are clueless. Her friends will pick her up. Yiu can't control a 17yr old with a hammer. It won't work. She can walk right out thr door and if the parents decided to kick her out they will be arrested. OP will get better results with diplomacy and compromise. For the record my son works at Wegmans and picked up more shifts when school closed. He did not wear a mask, not did 90% of his coworkers until it became the law. No ody died at his Wegmans and nobody in out house died, or even got sick. He does no social distancing and has an active social life and I'm alive to tell the story. |