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[quote=Anonymous]OP, this is important: people need opportunities to learn. There is not some magic age at which they just know things. People have to learn things before they know them. The more things you know, the easier it is to put certain things together on your own. But you will not divine that knowlegde through osmosis.

When your stepson makes a mistake, remember you are a parent and this is an opportunity to teach him something new. When he starts to take the bags out of car, say "Oh no, we can leave those in the car while we're in the store. We don't want to have to carry them around." That might give him an opportunity to ask questions like "Aren't we worried someone will steel them?" and for you to explain "No, we'll only be a minute and our car has an alarm" or "Actually good point, let's put them in the trunk."

If, when your stepson does stuff like this, you treat him like he should already know and that he is lacking or dumb for not knowing, he will not learn the thing you want him to learn. He will learn not to trust his own instincts, that his dumb, that his stepmom thinks he is lacking.

People need opportunities to learn. A parent's job is to provide them with guidance through that process. [/quote]

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