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mom_STEPMOM's picture

We just purchased my SD a car for her 18th birthday. The issue I am having is that she has lied to her father and I stating that she is with the mother for the weekend when she is not. She has rules here with us that is why she leaves on the weekends. I just went into her room and read a notebook that stated she was drunk over the weekend and chances are she was in the car. It realy upsets me that my husband and I sacrificed so much to get her this car and she does this. Was I wrong for reading her notebook? How do we approach her about the drinking?

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sparky's picture

Lady, if it’s in your house you can read it or do whatever you want to with it. First of all I would not tell her that you read it and second of all I would tell her, I don’t know if its true or not but I have been told that on the weekends that you have been DUI in the car. These are the consequences that are going to happen if I get another report like that. List it for her and make her sign it so she can’t play the, “ I didn’t know game.” If the car and ins is in your name change it over to her name. If she killed someone on the highway you don’t want the lawsuit coming back on you. I would tell her you only get one chance and the next time I am selling the car before you kill someone.

smurfy1smile's picture

I think it was on ebay a few months back. A mother put her 18 or 19 year old son's car up for sale and stated in the ad that son broke the no alcohol rule - mom found a bottle under the seat - and his mean parents were selling his car that he had for less than 2 months. Of course, the kid claimed th bottle wasn't his but that's not the point. Rules are rules. One of my older sisters broke curfew when she was 19 or 20 and still living at home and my parents grounded her from her car except to go to work - the car my sister bought.

Nymh's picture

I don't know your situation or if it is impossible for you guys to ask BM if SD was really with her this weekend? Or for one of you to call BM's house and ask to speak to SD on one of these occasions that she claims to be there when you know she's not?

Does she have a job and buy her own gas and pay her own insurance?

*~So sayeth Nymh~*

undertaker girl's picture

let SD know the consequenses of being caught drinking and driving. let her know what you and DH will do if you ever catch her, and what penalties she will face if she gets pulled over. and if she is to get caught, crashes the car or whatever, she pay can pay all the fines, and get herself a new car, get herself insurance and all that. it wont be a party when she realizes how much it will all cost her.