Esp. since she kind of sounds like a control freak.
Gee, yah think?!?
I'm just funnin' yah, Karen.
Seriously, STBXW is most definitely plague with being a control-freak, though she insists she's not. Our MC even told her in a private session with her that that was the one thing she really needed to get a handle on. Imagine that -- a control-freak not having control over themselves.
As for kids having too many toys these days, I can only agree. That's partly why I agreed to S8's Christmas wish for a Wii, so that it would consolidate a lot of their gifts into a single big one. And I have tried not to characterize withholding the dame system from my S's as a punishment, per se, but that they have to earn the privilege to have play time with it. A carrot versus a stick, so to speak.
I worry that STBXW is getting confused herself and allowing her disproportionate sense of entitlement infect my sons, such that they think they are automatically owed time on the Wii by default. She used to be far more sensible in those areas than myself, but all this hullaballoo about my legal list of items has me concerned.
And I am also hoping that having one decent parent is enough -- and this ever building panic I feel for my S's, because STBXW is making motions to minimize that one decent parent in my case, is not really helping matters. I need to relax.
