Reciprocation is the key to any relationship, showing that you’re capable of paying attention to someone’s basic wants and needs and have considered their best interests is really the barest of requirements for establishing a bond. Gift-giving is a time when entitlement, selfishness, and narcissism rears its ugly head and it becomes all the more …
Seguir leyendo Entitled wealthy sister demands Christmas gifts for her 16-year-old and 14-year-old children but won’t buy them for her 6-year-old and 4-year-old niece and nephew because she’s «saving up» for a vacation: ‘I expect her to get my kids something’
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18-year-old woman forced to take 16-year-old stepsister on her Spring Break trip with friends after dad and stepmom invite her without asking : ‘Now my dad’s wife is texting me, saying I’m being selfish and that my stepsister is devastated’
Relationships with step-siblings can be difficult, especially in your teens, you generally old enough that experiencing a true sibling upbringing is out of the question. It doesn’t mean that the two of you can’t grow close but that whole sibling ingrained love/hate thing is sort of out of the question. Which also means that instead …
Seguir leyendo 18-year-old woman forced to take 16-year-old stepsister on her Spring Break trip with friends after dad and stepmom invite her without asking : ‘Now my dad’s wife is texting me, saying I’m being selfish and that my stepsister is devastated’
30+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 27, 2025)
Becoming a parent is a decision nobody takes lightly. It changes your whole world. You may think you can hold on to the activities you did as a non-parent, but odds are you’ll have to completely re-tool your life around your child. You’ll probably have a new set of priorities, and you’re no longer going …
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Mother tells 16-year-old daughter she’s not «celebrated» because she doesn’t do anything with celebrating, teen gets even more upset: ‘[She] said she feels like it’s unfair we celebrate [her brother]’
Every kid is going to be different, as much as each of us are individuals. But possibly even greater since the way each of us learn is as different again as our personalities—as is the rate and manner in which we mature and develop. No two people are the same and no two teens are …
Seguir leyendo Mother tells 16-year-old daughter she’s not «celebrated» because she doesn’t do anything with celebrating, teen gets even more upset: ‘[She] said she feels like it’s unfair we celebrate [her brother]’
Mother tells 16-year-old daughter she’s not «celebrated» because she doesn’t do anything worth celebrating, teen gets even more upset: ‘[She] said she feels like it’s unfair we celebrate [her brother]’
Every kid is going to be different, as much as each of us are individuals. But possibly even greater since the way each of us learn is as different again as our personalities—as is the rate and manner in which we mature and develop. No two people are the same and no two teens are …
Seguir leyendo Mother tells 16-year-old daughter she’s not «celebrated» because she doesn’t do anything worth celebrating, teen gets even more upset: ‘[She] said she feels like it’s unfair we celebrate [her brother]’
‘I ended up using a Cash App loan to cover the meal’: Mom insists son take her to Chili’s, forks the bill over despite him not having money to pay it, leaving him with $.30 in his bank account
When money is tight, the last place you want to go is out to dinner. It’s a luxury that not all of us can afford all the time, let alone regularly. You’d be hard-pressed to eat at a sit-down restaurant and not spend a pretty chunk of change, especially if you’re covering somebody else’s meal. …
Seguir leyendo ‘I ended up using a Cash App loan to cover the meal’: Mom insists son take her to Chili’s, forks the bill over despite him not having money to pay it, leaving him with $.30 in his bank account
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’
25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 20, 2025)
Being a parent is never easy, but being a parent to multiple young children is even harder. When they’re a little bit older, they’re pretty good about entertaining themselves, even if it’s just for a little while. When they’re in their toddler years, they need your constant attention. Good luck if you want a couple …
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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (March 13, 2025)
We’ve sprung forward, which means we lost an hour of sleep and our weeks have been messed up ever since. We woke up with a headache which meant we reached for that second cup of coffee in the afternoon which meant we went to bed late which meant we were tired the next day and …
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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?’