Teen ‘Loses’ Passport Before Family Disneyland Trip, Avoids Babysitting Kids for Demanding Sister

Family dynamics are never simple. Even those who are blessed with great relatives are going to have their issues, and most people don’t receive that blessing. Most of us have some unwelcome realizations about our family members as we grow up, and if we’re really unlucky, these can impact us severely. One individual who has …
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‘This Is Your New Job’: Boss Demands Employee Babysit Her Child During Work Shifts for Free

Management tends to have some pretty bold, audacious requests, or should we say rather ‘demands’. In this case, OP was working as a receptionist at a chiropractic clinic. Her boss went on personal leave for a few months, saying she had family issues that she needed to take care of. After said issues were taken …
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‘I’m a grown man. I deserve my own vacation too’: Family Freaks Out Over Adult Son Refusing to Share a Hotel Room With His Rowdy Nephews

Family vacations get more complicated as families grow bigger. Fifteen years ago, you went to the beach with two adults and two kids. Now, the two kids have lives and families of their own, making things much more challenging to coordinate. Vacationing while having a young family is also tricky. You want to spend time …
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Hands-Off Parents Forbid Babysitter From Discipling Their Children, Get Angry At Babysitter When Their Kids Misbehave

Babysitting kids can go two very different ways. Either the kids are totally cool, or they are absolute monsters that cannot be tamed. I was lucky that the kids I looked after were rad as hell when I was a teenage babysitter. Their parents were never too controlling, telling me that we could only do …
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Hands-Off Parents Forbid Babysitter From Discipling Their Children, Get Angry When Their Kids Misbehave

Babysitting kids can go two very different ways. Either the kids are totally cool, or they are absolute monsters that cannot be tamed. I was lucky that the kids I looked after were rad as hell when I was a teenage babysitter. Their parents were never too controlling, telling me that we could only do …
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Parents and Carers Share Invaluable Tips for Being Good With Kids

One thing that everybody has in common is that we were all children once. At some point, we had to experience every lesson and vulnerability that comes with being a kid, yet there are many adults out there who don’t have any idea how to behave around them. If you don’t have a lot of …
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Negligent Parents Try To Pawn Off Their Children Onto a Babysitter On Christmas Day

If there’s one holiday you don’t want to work on, it’s Christmas. Even if you don’t celebrate the holiday, there’s a sort of unspoken cultural rule in America that demanding or asking somebody to work on Christmas is inappropriate without giving them a sizeable bonus for that day. After all, there are so few days …
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