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’

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’

American godmother refuses to help Vietnamese godchild apply to American universities, but helps her younger sister with worse grades: ‘[She used] her husband’s connection to ask for scholarship’

Life isn’t always fair, but you don’t always want to know that, especially when you’re young. You also don’t want to let that notion get in the way of fighting injustice wherever you see it. You don’t have to accept your conditions as normal, you can (and should) push for better. Especially when injustice exists …
Seguir leyendo American godmother refuses to help Vietnamese godchild apply to American universities, but helps her younger sister with worse grades: ‘[She used] her husband’s connection to ask for scholarship’

60-year-old grandma plans vacation for herself while 12 and 10-year-old grandchildren are in school, daughter chews her out for not being available to babysit: ‘She should not be assumptive’

It takes a village indeed, and it’s nice to be able to rely on others to help you out with childcare. This is how we did things once upon a time when we lived in tribes and took care of each others’ young. We helped others so that we got help in return. This is …
Seguir leyendo 60-year-old grandma plans vacation for herself while 12 and 10-year-old grandchildren are in school, daughter chews her out for not being available to babysit: ‘She should not be assumptive’

‘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

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’

Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’

Everyone is entitled to their own music taste. This doesn’t mean that you have to like it, but you must respect it. Some people want to spend their days listening to Imagine Dragons. While I can’t quite fathom this reality, I don’t go around trying to stop their fans from buying their records. Music is …
Seguir leyendo Husband asks wife and teen daughter to turn off music from a concert he insisted he join them for despite mom planning a girls night: ‘So we ride home in silence’

‘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

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?’