I need some help!

There are times when I feel like throwing anything out, just like right now. I guess that's just one way of saying.. "I'm pissed".

Yep, I really am. When ideas and point of views do not coincide, things collide. I don't want to go into details but it's a personal family problem and if I'll rant and rave about it in a detailed version, believe me, it'll take me more than a day to write it all down.

To make the long story short, I'm having a hard time adjusting with the parental role "how to discipline your teenager stepkid". That is especially when you are born and raised in the Philippines and is now trying to mold a teenager that is born and raise in the States. That's typically East and West or North and South. How am I going to react on things? Do I have a say on anything?

When I asked some words of wisdom from my dad, he told me a parable "you can only lead the horse to the water but you cannot make the horse drink". Yeah it's true, but if it's affecting everyone in the family, if the disrespectful is too much to bear, can't I do something else?

I don't really know what to do..if you are on the same boat, I need your advice..badly.

I'm sorry that I need to rant here, I have to let it out..just bear with me today.