This is absolutely ridiculous.

As a parent, there will be times when you must decide whether to intervene in your kid’s affairs or let them handle them on their own. If your 13-year-old daughter has a friend who is treating her poorly but doesn’t know how to end the friendship, it’s a good idea to intervene, talk to her friend’s parents, and let them know that your daughter no longer wants to be friends with their daughter. If your 23-year-old daughter were in the same situation, it’d be a different story, but sometimes kids need their parents to fight their battles for them when they don’t yet have the tools to fight for themselves. 

One of the few places where parents might not try to fight their kids’ battles is in the workplace. If your kid gets a summer job at Sonic and you don’t like how many hours they’re working, it’s smart to let your teenager tell their boss they can only work X hours per week, because it prepares them for the adult world. However, there are times when a parent needs to step in and tell their teenager that they’re being taken advantage of at work. The teen in this story is not getting paid by her mom’s «friends.» She has been nannying their kids for the past three weeks, and keeps saying that they’re going to pay her for her work, to no avail.