Stepmom tells stepdaughter to help his stepbrother out. A common example of StepMom telling Step Daughter to help her stepson to include when a mother is sick and in the hospital and the child has a bedridden grandmother who is mean and verbally attacks the stepdaughter. This is an example of StepMother subtly influencing a child into helping her stepmother. The mother may say she can not afford to pay for the doctor’s bills but this is taken into consideration by the grandchild and she decides to help the doctor out regardless. This situation makes it clear that the Step Daughter is more influenced by the feelings of the parent and less willing to make money to support herself.
Another example is when stepmother tells stepson to get his own medicine because he is ill. Step Daughter finds out about this and decides to help her stepfather rather than the sick grandparent. In this situation, the stepdaughter is submissive and helping the sick person is in her best interest. However, if she would follow her parent’s advice she probably would end up getting the same type of medicine and would probably end up being more sick.
It is easy to see how Step Mothers can influence children into doing what they do not want them to do. This can cause emotional problems for your stepson or even family turmoil in the long run. So be careful in the situations above and be sure you talk things through with your stepson and explain that he cannot do whatever he wants because he is the stepson and the guardian.
