[i82much]

I'm engaged to a girl, she has a 13 year old son. I have an 11 year old son and a 7 year old daughter.

The boys get rough sometimes but my son is much larger so I don't have any real concerns there. But I feel like my fiancee's son is too rough with my daughter.

For instance, he wanted to play flag football with our whole family. First play we hand my daughter the ball and he immediately runs full speed at her and rips the flag off of her behind the line of scrimmage.

The three of them play a game where they kind of roughhouse with the mattresses and act like monkeys, she got hurt by him. I asked him what happened and he said "Hey, if she wants to play with the boys, that's what happens.?

The other day she was pitching baseball to him with one of those rubber baseballs - pretty firm and about the same weight as a baseball. She was 20 feet away from him and he's hitting the ball as hard as he can.

I'm thinking - you have got to be kidding me. A 13 year old boy should absolutely know how to control himself and make sure a 7 year old girl does not get hurt. If' you're playing flag football with a girl half your age, you back off and let her have some fun, maybe pull the flag off gently after letting her get a first down. If you're doing a silly monkey game, you're aware of your body at all times and make sure the younger kid doesn't get hurt. If you're being pitched to by a girl half your age, you hit the ball back gently and encourage her to field the ball. You don't play full speed trying to dominate a little girl or hit the ball back at her as hard as you can!

Am I wrong?