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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your stepson was a jerk and I don't necessarily think you handled it badly.  However, I don't think you should have asked him to do something that you as a grown up were too afraid to do. Weird power play you set in motion, and speaking as a mom of a middle schooler, at that age, kids get such a kick out of stuff like your stepson did to you. What would you have done if it was just you or you and your two year old (don't know if you have other kids) were there?  [/quote]

OP here. I appreciate all the responses. There has been a on again off again air of frustration in our house with DSS's behavior. THe day before, his dad sent him away from the breakfast table because he had asked him to set the table, DSS delayed, gave attitude, finished email, and then did about half the setting. When DH asked him to please go get the two forks that were missing he threw one at his three year old sister. I'm not trying to paint him as an awful kid, that's about as bad as it gets. Just kind of general, low stakes attitude, that I'm party to but not the heavy in.

However, before bug incident, there wasn't anything heavy going on. If I had been alone, I would have gotton the raid. But, DSS was about 10 feet away, I hate bugs, so I asked if he wouldn't mind doing it. I got a big sigh and eyeroll (not because he has any problem with bugs, but because that's the response at being asked to do anything), I reminded him that we are all allowed to dislike certain chores and how I'd been doing the dishwasher for the last week because he disliked that one so much. And then it went down like I said. But it wasn't like I was panicked or couldn't have handled it. It was just one of a series of things that so could have been "not a big deal" but turned into a "big freaking deal" because DSS had an attitude about it. [/quote]

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