The teacher doesn't understand. Huckaba wants to crawl into a hole. At one point or another it's an issue every stepfamily deals with. He helps with homework. Pays for private schooling.
Kids are notoriously ambivalent themselves.
Experts say you shouldn't force stepkids to call you Mom or Dad. Debbie Boag agrees. Her stepkids call her Debbie. But she said she never refers to them as her stepchildren. We're a family.