Kids: Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to...

By yingyang2 - 06/01/2011 02:19 - United States

Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to read and write. She came bounding up to me with a piece of paper and said, "look what I did". It was a letter that said "My dad misses my real mommy, not you". FML

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Thursday 6 January 2011 9:07

weird if a little kids knows it and you don't

BoredomKillsinc 0

Thursday 6 January 2011 9:10

looks like she knows something you don't

Comments

hofstadter 2

Friday 7 January 2011 11:31

What if the kid's mum is actually dead? There would almost certainly be truth in what she was saying then - and a five year old is probably too young to understand that her dad could miss her mum and still be in love with and happily married to the OP...

rubberduckie94 13

Wednesday 14 December 2011 1:26

that is true. i married a widower with a young daughter. the first few years were difficult on us, because he felt like he was betraying his late wife. we stuck it out and now we are coming up on eight years and very happy. I know part of his heart is always my (step)daughers mothers, but i also know he loves me with everything he has in him. there are no degrees of love. You either love someone or you dont. there is no loving this person this much and this person this much.

ChronicSnowflake 0

Friday 7 January 2011 13:18

kids these days... they say the craziest shit... maybe she's angry cause her mommy isn't around now and you are... hopefully it's nothing else.... : S

claiiire_fml 17

Saturday 8 January 2011 1:13

kids say the darndest things!

LilEinstein 0

Sunday 9 January 2011 7:27

you were teaching her how to read and write, and she's able to produce such an elaborate sentence already?

OneToughCookiee 2

Sunday 9 January 2011 12:59

It's ok. She's only five & obviously not over the divorce (:

WeTheLiving 4

Sunday 23 January 2011 4:56

That's sucks! but keep in mind that she is just a kid and if you're actually worried then you must have known, at least unconsciously, that something is wrong in your relationship

WeTheLiving 4

Sunday 23 January 2011 4:58

That's sucks! but keep in mind that she is just a kid and if you're actually worried then you must have known, at least unconsciously, that something is wrong in your relationship