Being a peacemaker in your family is not a fun job. Maybe you’re the middle child and you’re used to running an interference between two sides of your family. You’re the one who is friends with everyone so you’re the only one who can resolve conflicts. Or maybe you’re the only one who’s willing to. …
Seguir leyendo ‘The level of beef she has with this 6-year-old is genuinely concerning’: 47-year-old grandmother insists on crashing waterpark outing with 6 and 12-year-olds despite causing drama with them
Categoría:Babies
Parents let 3-year-old daughter upstage 1-year-old niece’s birthday, want her to blow out the candles instead: ‘My niece started screaming and wouldn’t let anyone sing happy birthday’
It’s hard to sit by and watch somebody else’s bad parenting. Everyone is entitled to their own parenting styles, but that doesn’t mean you have to like it. But it can be incredibly difficult to just be passive while someone else is wrecking their child’s future. It’s even harder when your own child is mixed …
Seguir leyendo Parents let 3-year-old daughter upstage 1-year-old niece’s birthday, want her to blow out the candles instead: ‘My niece started screaming and wouldn’t let anyone sing happy birthday’
‘Like she owned the rights to every baby name in the family’: Entitled aunt insists new parents rename their baby and give him a more ‘biblical’ name, parents adamantly refuse
As children, some of you might have kept a list of baby names either in your noggin, on a piece of paper, or in your iPad’s Notes app. You probably used these names when you played «house» with Sally and Jimmy from next door. Having your mind set on names early on in your life …
Seguir leyendo ‘Like she owned the rights to every baby name in the family’: Entitled aunt insists new parents rename their baby and give him a more ‘biblical’ name, parents adamantly refuse
Grandparents introduce son’s affair partner as ‘the mother of our precious grandson,’ son flips out that she didn’t correct them even though it’s true: ‘I just didn’t want to cause a scene or embarrass anyone’
Life is long, complicated, and never quite goes how you expect it to. No one as a kid plans to have an affair with their married coworker, bear their child, and then have to take that baby to a family barbecue with their affair partner and his husband, but hey… life happens. The best you …
Seguir leyendo Grandparents introduce son’s affair partner as ‘the mother of our precious grandson,’ son flips out that she didn’t correct them even though it’s true: ‘I just didn’t want to cause a scene or embarrass anyone’
16-year-old mom stops her family from seeing her baby after her 30-year-old sister took her 4-month-old to the beach without applying sunscreen: ‘My parents said I was too young to know what’s best’
Anyone can be a fantastic parent or a terrible parent at any age. It’s easy to look at someone with kids, «too young» or «too old,» and assume they have poor judgment in all areas of parenting, but that’s not always true. A teenager could have poor judgment in having a baby young, and subsequently …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old mom stops her family from seeing her baby after her 30-year-old sister took her 4-month-old to the beach without applying sunscreen: ‘My parents said I was too young to know what’s best’
Dad fakes sick for 2 months to avoid going to work, blames mom for them not having enough money to buy their 15-year-old daughter a new iPhone: ‘I am also unable to work because my youngest is 6 months old’
A kid faking sick to avoid going to school usually means that something bigger is going on with them. One might assume that a kid would do this because they’re lazy and avoidant by nature, but that’s not usually the case. If a kid is constantly saying they have a stomachache, despite there being no …
Seguir leyendo Dad fakes sick for 2 months to avoid going to work, blames mom for them not having enough money to buy their 15-year-old daughter a new iPhone: ‘I am also unable to work because my youngest is 6 months old’
‘SIL looks like she’s ready to cry «Well…I feel selfish»‘: Mom of infant asks brother-in-law to change her baby’s diaper even though she is right there, brother refuses and gets iced out
It is okay to set boundaries with your family members. In fact, you should be setting boundaries with your family members because otherwise they will get crossed and you won’t have recourse to say that they wronged you. This is especially true when it comes to children. We’re all happy to pitch in every now …
Seguir leyendo ‘SIL looks like she’s ready to cry «Well…I feel selfish»‘: Mom of infant asks brother-in-law to change her baby’s diaper even though she is right there, brother refuses and gets iced out
32-year-old mother locks her sister’s dog in a room by himself for 2 days after he stared at her baby, gets angry when she refuses to babysit her baby ever again: ‘She was never setting foot in my house again. She was lucky I didn’t call animal services.’
I really don’t trust people who are flippant towards mistreating animals. Everyone always says that harming animals at a young age is the sign of a psychopath, but I find it much more unnerving in adults. You’re telling me you’ve lived 30+ years on this earth, and you still don’t know that animals don’t deserve …
Seguir leyendo 32-year-old mother locks her sister’s dog in a room by himself for 2 days after he stared at her baby, gets angry when she refuses to babysit her baby ever again: ‘She was never setting foot in my house again. She was lucky I didn’t call animal services.’
‘I do more than most fathers’: 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out
Any form of partnership is difficult. If you’re working together on a certain goal, odds are you’re going to have differences. You might have an imbalanced work ethic, where one of you is pulling way more of the weight than the other, who leaves everything until the last minute. You may have different world views …
Seguir leyendo ‘I do more than most fathers’: 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out
18-year-old sibling set a firm boundary by shutting down relatives after refusing to be her younger brother’s second mom: ‘They decided to have a baby, so they should take care of him’
Growing up as the oldest sibling is hard work, especially when you’re suddenly expected to be a part-time nanny. As the oldest kid, a lot of times you’re the built-in babysitter, the emergency diaper-changer, the human jungle gym, and the one expected to hand over your favorite toys without complaint. Of course there’s the classic …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old sibling set a firm boundary by shutting down relatives after refusing to be her younger brother’s second mom: ‘They decided to have a baby, so they should take care of him’