Planning a big vacation with a large group can be a little stressful. If you’re the one who put the trip on your credit card, you have to rely on a lot of people to pay you back so you can pay it off. I just booked a wood-paneled cabin for me and my eight …
Seguir leyendo 33-year-old single childless woman refuses to go on a family vacation where she’s forced to babysit her toddler nieces and nephews: ‘We [take care of the kids] every day, it’s your turn’
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14, 15, and 16-year-old siblings refuse to go to Disneyland with their stepmom, dad, and their 2 children on Mother’s Day, stepmom calls their mom in tears: ‘She was hysterically crying about my kids not being there and how they’re her kids too’
It’s pretty silly to expect someone to spend Mother’s Day with someone who isn’t their mother if they can spend it with their mother. If you and your mom live in different cities or don’t get along, I understand why you wouldn’t hang out on Mother’s Day. But Mother’s Day is not the time to …
Seguir leyendo 14, 15, and 16-year-old siblings refuse to go to Disneyland with their stepmom, dad, and their 2 children on Mother’s Day, stepmom calls their mom in tears: ‘She was hysterically crying about my kids not being there and how they’re her kids too’
Woman gives wife and sister-in-law a reality check after they badger their estranged half-brother online, who wants nothing to do with them: ‘They need to accept he said no’
Nothing comes as a shock quite as much as finding out you have a family member you’ve never met, especially when they hold a sibling title. Despite the initial shock, your second feeling might be that of excitement. This real person, whom you had no idea of prior, shares your DNA and might not even …
Seguir leyendo Woman gives wife and sister-in-law a reality check after they badger their estranged half-brother online, who wants nothing to do with them: ‘They need to accept he said no’
33-year-old single childless woman refuses to go on family vacation where she’s forced to pay the same share as families of 3 and babysit her toddler nieces and nephews: ‘We [take care of the kids] every day, it’s your turn’
Planning a big vacation with a large group can be a little stressful. If you’re the one who put the trip on your credit card, you have to rely on a lot of people to pay you back so you can pay it off. I just booked a wood-paneled cabin for me and my eight …
Seguir leyendo 33-year-old single childless woman refuses to go on family vacation where she’s forced to pay the same share as families of 3 and babysit her toddler nieces and nephews: ‘We [take care of the kids] every day, it’s your turn’
‘She’s not my child’: 19-year-old aunt gets ditched with her 2-year-old niece whenever Mom is tired of parenting, so she refuses to babysit ever again
More often than not, family members get taken advantage of when parents are tired of being responsible for their kids. I understand that ‘it takes a village’ to raise a kid, but at the end of the day, the parent is ultimately responsible for their own child–not Auntie, not Grandma, and certainly not annoying kid …
Seguir leyendo ‘She’s not my child’: 19-year-old aunt gets ditched with her 2-year-old niece whenever Mom is tired of parenting, so she refuses to babysit ever again
Brother calls CPS on his sister solely because she isn’t sober like him, demands that she forgive him without apologizing: ‘I told him I never wanted to see his face again’
No parent is perfect. There is no parenting SAT you can get a perfect score on, and there is seldom a kid who will grow up and say that their mom and dad did everything right. Every parent has their own idea of what the best practice is for raising a kid, and while those …
Seguir leyendo Brother calls CPS on his sister solely because she isn’t sober like him, demands that she forgive him without apologizing: ‘I told him I never wanted to see his face again’
Egotistical father squanders his underaged son’s inheritance from grandma, years later, the son gives him an ultimatum to pay back the $250,000 in exchange for a relationship with his grandkids: ‘It’s restitution’
Sometimes I wish I had rich grandparents, but there are times when an inheritance only makes family matters more complicated–especially when your dad is an egotistical man-child. It feels topsyturvy to become more mature than your parents. When we’re young, we automatically look to them for guidance and wisdom, once we’ve lived a life of …
Seguir leyendo Egotistical father squanders his underaged son’s inheritance from grandma, years later, the son gives him an ultimatum to pay back the $250,000 in exchange for a relationship with his grandkids: ‘It’s restitution’
Homeschool families create a co-op where parents take turns teaching their kids together in one home, accidentally reinvents the one room schoolhouse of the 1800s: ‘Why doesn’t everyone do this!’
I cannot imagine living during a time when there wasn’t compulsory schooling in the United States. Trying to rally together my hypothetical rural community to create a one-room schoolhouse that kids aren’t even required to attend would make me so stressed out. Even though public school can have some problems, we take for granted that …
Seguir leyendo Homeschool families create a co-op where parents take turns teaching their kids together in one home, accidentally reinvents the one room schoolhouse of the 1800s: ‘Why doesn’t everyone do this!’
‘Clapping at TV shows’: Former kids share weird things their families did while raising them
Every family has those little quirky things they do differently than other families. I come from a mother and a father who were always clinically early to every event we have ever attended together. On a good day, we would get to extracurricular activities or movie theaters a good 15-30 minutes early. I know that …
Seguir leyendo ‘Clapping at TV shows’: Former kids share weird things their families did while raising them
People Share the Juiciest Family Secrets They’re Not Supposed to Know
Family secrets can range from being horribly painful to being the juiciest gossip ever concocted. I definitely don’t want anyone to have to deal with the trauma of finding out their father has a secret family or their aunt committed vehicular manslaughter in 1992. However, these stories are interesting for a reason. We don’t tend …
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