This poor girl has been through the ringer. Some family secrets are incredibly banal. It doesn’t affect your life that much to know that your mom had a fling with a cowboy in South Dakota during the summer of 81, or that your dad was engaged to a woman in Wisconsin that never came to …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old discovers her dad isn’t her biological father, mom harasses her to confess which family member told her the truth: ‘He told me now that I knew I could start calling him Drake instead of dad’
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Dad excludes 20-year-old son from wedding photo with his 2nd wife, her children, and his 18 and 16-year-old children: ‘Let’s just do the core family first’
Treating one child better or worse than another is unjustifiable in 99% of cases. I’m not talking about garden-variety variations, where parents are slightly closer to one child because of common interests, but don’t give that child unearned privileges just because they like baseball. I’m talking about purposefully excluding a child out of spite and …
Seguir leyendo Dad excludes 20-year-old son from wedding photo with his 2nd wife, her children, and his 18 and 16-year-old children: ‘Let’s just do the core family first’
18-year-old rejects her mom’s claim that it’s her job to prevent her 64-year-old dad from screaming at her: ‘It’s not my responsibility to cater to a grown man’s feelings’
When you are getting screamed at almost constantly, it’s easy to get obsessed with the idea that you are the one causing the screaming. You start to recognize the things that can trigger the person, whether it be things you say, sounds you make, times of the day, or locations where they feel comfortable blowing …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old rejects her mom’s claim that it’s her job to prevent her 64-year-old dad from screaming at her: ‘It’s not my responsibility to cater to a grown man’s feelings’
Mom refuses to take her son to the hospital after he spikes a 106.3 degree fever: ‘That’s over 41 degrees Celsius’
There is no shortage of debates in parenting forums about how to treat (or not treat) a child’s fever. Opinions range from rushing kids to the hospital the second their temperature reaches 99.5 degrees, and letting their kids fester with no medicine when their fever is over 104 degrees. The truth is probably somewhere in …
Seguir leyendo Mom refuses to take her son to the hospital after he spikes a 106.3 degree fever: ‘That’s over 41 degrees Celsius’
Contrarian claims ‘Trunk or Treating’ style of Halloween is superior to traditional Trick or Treating: ‘I love not having knocks all hours of the night from kids asking for candy.’
If you grew up in suburban USA, you probably have strong opinions on Trunk or Treating versus Trick or Treating. If you were born before 2000 and have no idea what Trunk or Treating even is, consider yourself lucky. You probably had a normal, wonderful childhood that was not heavily influenced by stranger danger fear. …
Seguir leyendo Contrarian claims ‘Trunk or Treating’ style of Halloween is superior to traditional Trick or Treating: ‘I love not having knocks all hours of the night from kids asking for candy.’
30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn’t think they’re close enough: ‘Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she’s got.
Whether a stepparent will adopt their stepchild has a lot to do with their specific family situation. If the mom has been raising her daughter on her own since the day she was born, and she marries her daughter’s stepdad during her daughter’s childhood, he might be a good candidate for adopting her. He has …
Seguir leyendo 30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn’t think they’re close enough: ‘Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she’s got.
35-year-old offers to buy his 64-year-old parents a house, forbids them from allowing his 42-year-old brother to live with them: ‘My mom has always loved my brother more’
If you’re going to give a family member a large financial gift, you can’t dictate what they do with that money. You can advise them all you want not to blow five figures on online sports gambling, but if they’re determined to do so, they will do it. If you’re loaning money to a close …
Seguir leyendo 35-year-old offers to buy his 64-year-old parents a house, forbids them from allowing his 42-year-old brother to live with them: ‘My mom has always loved my brother more’
Stepdad pushes 17-year-old stepson to accept him as his dad because he has been his father figure for 9 years and his late father was for merely 7 years: ‘He said he deserves to be recognized instead of the ghost.’
When you’re a kid, you’re at the mercy of the adults around you. While some kids have two healthy, rational parents at the helm of their families, others have to operate under a series of absurd rules that do nothing to prepare them for the future. A parent could hypothetically feed their kids nothing but …
Seguir leyendo Stepdad pushes 17-year-old stepson to accept him as his dad because he has been his father figure for 9 years and his late father was for merely 7 years: ‘He said he deserves to be recognized instead of the ghost.’
Mom of a 3 and 7-year-old sobs in TSA line after airport security directs her husband to a different line: ‘I was managing both kids’ backpacks, I kept dropping and spilling things’
Unless your name is Charli XCX, you probably don’t like going to the airport. There’s something incredibly stressful about finding transportation to the airport, checking your bags, going through TSA, getting to your gate, and getting on the plane, even if these are pretty basic tasks that mostly involve standing in line and walking. You’re …
Seguir leyendo Mom of a 3 and 7-year-old sobs in TSA line after airport security directs her husband to a different line: ‘I was managing both kids’ backpacks, I kept dropping and spilling things’
18-year-old only child cuts off parents because they prioritized their disorderly foster kids over their own son: ‘My extended family told me it was disgusting to turn my back on my parents’
You know when you go on an airplane, and the safety instructions tell you to put your oxygen mask on first before helping others? That is not only important advice for flying, but also for life in general. You can’t properly help somebody out if you can’t breathe and function on your own! There’s a …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old only child cuts off parents because they prioritized their disorderly foster kids over their own son: ‘My extended family told me it was disgusting to turn my back on my parents’