‘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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Crazy Puritan Claims Parents Shouldn’t Have Intercourse In The Same House As Their Kids Because It’s Traumatizing

Do you ever think that the internet was a mistake? Does it ever cross your mind that perhaps teenagers shouldn’t be allowed to be on Twitter? Does the new pervasiveness of anti-sex puritanism amongst young people concern you? If you answered yes to any of those questions, have I got the Twitter main character for …
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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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Insane Ad For Nanny Gig Requires Masters Degree & Paying For Kids’ Snacks In Exchange For Pay of $18 a Day

When I was in high school, I made enough money babysitting for 12 hours that I was able to buy illicit substances that will remain unnamed. Friends of mine saved thousands over the span of a year just taking care of rich peoples’ children in their own neighborhoods. While I don’t remember my exact wage, …
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Cheapskate Mom Denies Babysitter Promised Pay, Gets Owned & Taken To Court

This story is a bit of an oldie but goodie. We’ve been talking a lot about entitled cheapskatesand this story really takes the cake where scum like that is concerned. After eight hours of watching this woman’s children, this babysitter was denied the pre-agreed upon payment rate of $16 an hour. The babysitting client had …
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Insane Ad For Nanny Job Requires Masters Degree and Providing Snacks For Kids In Exchange For $18 a Day

When I was in high school, I made enough money babysitting for 12 hours that I was able to buy illicit substances that will remain unnamed. Friends of mine saved thousands over the span of a year just taking care of rich peoples’ children in their own neighborhoods. While I don’t remember my exact wage, …
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