‘As a mother of a child with celiac disease, I am shocked’: Parents drops off 9-year-old with gluten allergy at an acquaintance’s house with no food instructions, won’t reimburse them for food cost

Allergies are not a simple matter. If you don’t have experience dealing with one, you might not know just how much goes into making sure your food is safe. You might think it’s as simple as avoiding the allergen, but it’s more complicated than that. You have to make sure that wherever you go there …
Seguir leyendo ‘As a mother of a child with celiac disease, I am shocked’: Parents drops off 9-year-old with gluten allergy at an acquaintance’s house with no food instructions, won’t reimburse them for food cost

Ex-husband demands to AirTag 8-year-old son while he’s on Europe trip with mom, won’t share his location with her: ‘He will be at least 10 hours of travel away’

Oftentimes, technology doesn’t just change our professional lives. It has a deep impact on our interpersonal lives as well. A new invention can mean new ways of communicating with each other, navigating social situations, and even having surveillance on each other’s lives. Back in the day, you had no way of knowing where your child …
Seguir leyendo Ex-husband demands to AirTag 8-year-old son while he’s on Europe trip with mom, won’t share his location with her: ‘He will be at least 10 hours of travel away’

‘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

Mom feeds 13-year-old girls pizza, donuts, and chips at sleepover, other moms call her a ‘lousy mother’ for feeding them junk: ‘[She said] her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home’

Is it just me, or has everyone gotten a little weird about the food their kids eat? I mean, parents have presumably always been a little bit conscious about what they’re feeding their children. It’s one of the biggest jobs of parenting. But it seems as though in the last couple of years, the amount …
Seguir leyendo Mom feeds 13-year-old girls pizza, donuts, and chips at sleepover, other moms call her a ‘lousy mother’ for feeding them junk: ‘[She said] her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home’

Woman sends boyfriend’s 6-year-old to bed hungry because he won’t eat her cooking, boyfriend calls her ‘ignorant’: ‘I wouldn’t hold his children to different rules’

Children are notoriously picky about food. They like what they like, which is usually something along the lines of chicken fingers and buttered pasta. I was picky when I was a kid. There wasn’t a lot of non-beige food I would eat. But I grew out of it. Now, I eat everything. But it wasn’t …
Seguir leyendo Woman sends boyfriend’s 6-year-old to bed hungry because he won’t eat her cooking, boyfriend calls her ‘ignorant’: ‘I wouldn’t hold his children to different rules’

24-year-old son storms out on 40-year-old mom who just had a baby when she calls herself a first-time mom: ‘You really went overboard huh?’

Life can contain many distinct chapters. You may even feel like you’ve lived multiple lives in the span of a couple of years, if you’ve moved a lot, changed jobs, changed relationships, or just changed perspectives. It’s rare, if not impossible, that everyone lives their lives in a straight line from birth til the end. …
Seguir leyendo 24-year-old son storms out on 40-year-old mom who just had a baby when she calls herself a first-time mom: ‘You really went overboard huh?’

‘You’re asking for trouble’: Dad buys milkshake for 10-year-old after dentist visit, mom claims it’s ‘unfair’ to their 7 and 8-year-old kids

Life isn’t fair. This is a rule that it is best to learn early and to learn often. You can’t always expect to get the same thing as everyone else. You learn this extra early if you have siblings. You might see that your parents were probably stricter with the first child than they are …
Seguir leyendo ‘You’re asking for trouble’: Dad buys milkshake for 10-year-old after dentist visit, mom claims it’s ‘unfair’ to their 7 and 8-year-old kids

‘She pushed it too far’: Mother-in-law criticizes daughter-in-law for going to the gym while pregnant, pregnant daughter snaps at her

Some types of people are weirdly controlling over pregnant women’s bodies. It can seem like the minute you conceive, your body is up for discussion in the public forum. Strangers scrutinize what you eat, what you wear, how hard you’re working, and what you do with your free time. Forgetting that it has not ceased …
Seguir leyendo ‘She pushed it too far’: Mother-in-law criticizes daughter-in-law for going to the gym while pregnant, pregnant daughter snaps at her

‘It seems like everyone but you is responsible’: Dad accuses friend’s kids of stealing his 8-year-old’s toy, blames wife for not putting it away

Kids are unpredictable. You never quite know what their next move is going to be. Maybe they’ll start crying because their pants are a little too tight. Maybe, out of nowhere, they will ask you why dolphins have blowholes. Maybe they’ll throw a Lego at your face just to see what would happen. You truly …
Seguir leyendo ‘It seems like everyone but you is responsible’: Dad accuses friend’s kids of stealing his 8-year-old’s toy, blames wife for not putting it away

‘She’s not my parent’: 43-year-old stepmom who can’t cook forces ‘parental bonding’ with 17-year-old stepson by asking him to teach her basic meals, son refuses to participate

If you’re a full-grown, able-bodied adult and you can’t cook, there is something wrong with you. No offense, but there is. We literally need food to survive. So it’s hubristic to think that your needs will be met magically despite you not knowing how to. Maybe you have someone in your life who cooks for …
Seguir leyendo ‘She’s not my parent’: 43-year-old stepmom who can’t cook forces ‘parental bonding’ with 17-year-old stepson by asking him to teach her basic meals, son refuses to participate