went outside to greet her great grandmother, her little brother who is 1 and half followed her out the door. my niece comes in the house with her great grandma and they shut the door. nobody knew he was gone. his mother was in the shower and had just woke up (mind you its well after 9:30) the other kids were watching tv. all together or feeding themselves i have 3 nieces and 2 nephews. their ages range from 11-1 and half. so my sister n law is in the shower my brother is sleeping because he works the night shift. so my youngest nephew who was left outside is smart enough to remember where grandma and grandpa live (we live across the alley from them, we can see each other's back yards) and comes up to our back door balling his eyes out. thank god above that they were home because if they hadn't had an appointment in town they would have gone shopping which is and hour away from where we live.my parents sweep him up in their arms and call his parents. my oldest niece answers the phone and when my dad asks for my sil or my brother she starts arguing with my dad and says no either me or my sister will come get him. my parents say no way if your mom is busy go wake your father up because it is your parent's responsibility to look after the children. so to get to the point of asking for advice, my nieces are usually the ones taking care of their younger siblings (such as feeding them or changing diapers or doing laundry and doing dishes. while i don't know what on earth my sil does all day my little nephew could have gotten hurt and maybe even kidnapped. what should i do if this ever happens again and of course i was a ball of emotions since i love children and i think children are a gift from god and when i was 18 i was told i couldn't have children so i love and cherish my nieces and nephews. sorry i know it was a long read

So my cousin (basically my cousin-brothers cousin but I grew up with them) passed away this year at only 26 :( My mom passed 2 years ago at only 57. The family has been through a lot. I have guardianship of my nephew and I threw him a birthday party at a pond for his 16th. She said she was coming and bringing food with her kids and husband. Never shows up and the NEXT day she messages me "sorry I got called into work yesterday" which I get. She is a nurse so obviously she had to go in. But I think she could have let me know she wasnt coming the day of. The party was 9/2. A week layer we get an invitation to her babies 1st birthday 10/13. Everyone says to do what she did but eh idk about that. Dont want to be as bad as her but also dont want her to think it's ok what she did

I'm an 18 year old girl still living at home sadly because i dont have enough money to move out , anyways a few days ago i was in the car with my mom and i was crying cause i felt depressed, and my mom always gets angry when i cry and doesnt understand my depression . She shamed me for crying and i couldnt take it anymore so i insulted her i called her a gold digger so she got terribly angry and pinched my arm reallyy hard that it left a noticeable bruise. She also called me a ***** while she pinched/squeezed my arm :/ The next day she said sorry to me but said if i insult her ever again she'll slap me in the face and pinch me again. I feel very sad , is she abusive?

My high school only had classes for a half day so my good friend Ann invited me to join her and her dad for lunch. I said yes. I though we might go to Mc Donalds or maybe Sizzler. Was I surprised when we went to Ruth Chris. That is the most expensive restaurant I had ever been in. That was not my only surprise. Ann's dad was a great and I mean a GREAT looking guy. Her dad said I look familiar to him and he ask me if we had met. I told him no. I would sure remember if I had ever met him. He said perhaps it is your mother I have met. What is her name? When I told him, he said he don't know anyone by that name. What was her maiden name. When I told him he had a big smile on his face. He said "I went to high school with your mom". She was the most beautiful girl in high school. Tell her Joe Jones (not his real name) says hello. What is she doing now? Thinking it might be fun to tell mom I had a dinner date with an old boyfriend of hers, I asked him if he ever dated my mom in high school. He smiled and said no, I asked her for a date a few times and she turned me down every time. What was my mom thinking turning down a date from a RICH and GREAT LOOKING GUY? My first thought was to tell mom about this lunch when I got home. After giving it more thought, I am not sure she would want to hear about it. Moms, please give me some advice on what I should do. Would you want to hear about my lunch date

When I got out of high school, I had a hard time finding a job. I finally found a job with good pay and a great boss. I consider myself the luckiest girl alive. I just adore my boss. He makes coming to work a pleasure. One day in his office I say his high school graduation picture on his wall. I told him that my mom went to the same high school. He asked what was her name in school. When I told him, he said "I knew your mom in high school. I can see were you get your good looks. She was the most beautiful girl in the school." He said my mom had been homecoming queen 4 years in a row at high school. Mom had never told me that. I wonder why? He said "I would like to see her again to catch up on old times. Why don't you let me take the two of you to lunch some time. I said "great I will arrange it". When I told my mom about this she said she did not want to see anyone she went to high school with. When I ask her why she told me she had gained 10 pounds since she was in high school and didn't feel like she looked good. I told her 10 more pounds in 20 years and after 3 kids did not change her great looks. She still looked great. 40+ year old women am I right about this? How can I convince her she is still beautiful and should join us for lunch? I think it would be good for my career to have lunch with my boss and even if it doesn't, it seems like it would be fun. Moms, please give me some help with this.

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Today, I found out my grandmother was diagnosed with ALS. I'm not really that close to my extended family, when I was younger I used to visit them but now that I'm older I'm not close. I talked to my grandmother a while ago on her birthday over the phone. My dad came home and started crying in front of me. I was so sad because my dad and I are not close now because of some reasons like he doesn't treat my mother with regard. My mom had to move in with us and he ignores her and I just dont think it's right whether they have been divorced or not. Anyway, I felt sad because he wants us to visit her. I feel weird about seeing family because like I said I am not close to them but feel so bad for my grandma. My grandmother was the complete glue of our family. Nothing will be the same without her. I felt bad for my dad because he is very close to her. Things are so bad, my uncle is battling cancer and my dad had kidney cancer last year, that was tough enough. I'm just worried about my dad too because he needs to have strength to become healthy again and I am afraid that if he gets depressed that he will become weak. I need some advice on how to help my dad cope and cope with this entire thing with my grandmother.

My sister is 18 and i'm 14, so basically she dropped out of school at 16 (she got held back 4 years but never went anyway) She quit a good paying job to work at taco bell because it was "too much work". Shes always saying she doesn't have money for food but some how always has makeup and cigars. When you tell her no she stomps her foot and pouts, sometimes yelling until she gets her way. Its like she manipulates your emotions, makes you pity her until you give her what she wants. Recently i found out she stole 300$ from me, i'm not at the age to have a legal job so i babysit, clean houses for people, sometimes i go down the road and help this guy with wood work and in return get paid, unlike her i save my money.. I have 600 left but i know im never getting what she took back. She has lied about being raped, starved, abused, and somehow nothings ever her fault.. I honestly tried to help her, when i was younger she would steal stuff from our neighbors so i'd compromise with them, return the stuff and in exchange they wouldn't call the cops or tell our parents. I'd tell her it was the last time but it never was... Im in high school now and im trying to focus on school but its kinda hard when im dealing with her. Is there a way i can explain this to her, should i tell my parents we should cut her off completely? Shes made no attempt to get help or change so im not going to put up with it. Sorry for the bad grammar etc

Okay so.. I always thought my friend s parents were a bit....off. Beforw getting into her parents, let me share some of my friend s personality traits that are a bit concerning. She is very insecure. She often talks about not liking her body. Secondly, shes apologising, even before she says something, in fear off offending one of us. Now to her parents. First, I just noticed their temper. Whenever she would be over at someones house, they would call her and ask her when she wanted to be picked up. She would say a time and almost always they would say loudly(so loud i could her their conversation without it being on speaker) "TOO LATE! I M PICKING YOU UP AT [30 minutes before the times she suggested]". It just found it weird... like why ask for her opinion just to say that its wrong? Then, when i would go to her house, we would eat at their table. Well, i guess she wasnt "sitting right" because he yelled at her to "sit properly"??? Like... what? We aren t at a fancy resturant with the president....we re eating pizza... why does it matter. She also mentioned to me that anytime she drops something (like a chip) they yell at her. And another time, we went out and bought a nice dress for her middle school graduation. He forced her to return it and said that she spent "too much money" even though the dress was only a fraction of what he gave her to spend...she deals woth thus **** everyday and I can t imagine the impact it has on your wellbeing? Especially of a teen girl.

when I was shopping at Walmart, there was a child asking for vanilla ice-cream but her mother refused. There was a similar incident in Dunkin Donuts where a child wanted a chocolate donut and the mother refused and ordered a plain donut for him. Why does this happen?

I'm at a buffet I've been told not to getup and get anything else to say because I'll windup sleep walking and be on the toilet for hours. If I get up to get something to drink would she get pissed. I've already had 4 drinks.

My sister is a horrible parent had 2 one night stands with different men and had 2 kids, I almost called cps several times. She has an almost 4 year old who gets out of the house by herself and wanders off, neighbors brought her back. Then the neighbors of my sisters called the cops on her because they witnessed my sister hitting her kids, which she does do and literally beats them, different from a whoppin. The 4 year old can barely talk, words come out but its apparent she has no idea of what she is saying, youll ask her a very easy question that most children know and shell say some nonsense. Her 7 year old was fed only mcdonalds every day and now he will not eat home food, hell cry and resist and will not, they literally have to FORCE HIM .. They took him to the doctors and they believe it was him who the problem is with, and still all he eats is little debbies and strawberries all day every day. He spends every day in his room on his tablet She screams and cusses at them and hits them really hard and literally cusses them out, often screaming " Shut The F*** Up when she doesnt want to deal.

The funeral is Thursday and due to an activity at work my father says he wants to do he is arriving for the 2nd half only. Is this unacceptable social behavior? It is not the first time my father has shown poor behavior like this at times where respect is needed.

So some people use to call me but I don't have their number anymore and they r dealers and such as I'm afraid that one of them will text me something while my dad has my phone I'm really terrified of the thought of it what do I do please help me if my dad finds out that I've been in touch with drug delars I will lose his trust and respect for ever and surely I'll get busted so please help what should I do

Listen, I will not go into too much detail, but I can safely tell you that my father has driven me to depression and suicidal thoughts with hus toxicity. I'm only 14. The amount of times I call my aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, etc. to talk with them to see if I can take somethings off my chest are too many. It has gotten to the point in which they feel scared for my life, they want to help, but they can't do much since they live elsewhere. My father is the kind of person that never takes advice, you tell him how to improve his parenting, he won't ******* care, he'll just throw it in the trash. Why? Why must my other family members suffer from something like this? What do they think about my father? WHY?

I want to know what is expected of me in such a relationship. For example, the husband makes decisions BUT I disagree about me trattling like a child and for example, forbade me to enter the room or something? give some examples of the 21st century

I've currently gotten custody of my son and he has shown very aggressive behavior. Which is the same reason I left his dad. I thought it would be good to leave him with his dad. So it wouldn't get awkward when we had had to do the sex thing. When we were together he would play fight with my son. Eventually it would turn into his dad pinning him down on the floor and him trying to away. I been with my son for 2 months now. He treats me like his father did. I can remember one day I was joking around with him and he said dont tickle me. I tickled him and he grabbed my hand and squeezed it i started to cry. One because it hurt second because at that moment I knew he wasn't afraid to hurt me. He pushes me , He has cursed me out plenty of times. I've been told that I'm scared of him and truly i thought I wasnt. I realize it now.

So I've been hooking up with a 43 year old and I'm 21. I still live at home with my dad. But there was an incident last week where we were hooking up and there was drugs involved. My dad found out and had to pick me up from his place. He took me to the er to get a drug test and I tested positive for meth. I took an ambiean and it was making me hallucinate. But my parents are really mad about the meth. The guy told me it was coke but he adds meth in it. So I'm better now and off all the drugs. But my whole family is threatening him and wanting to call the police on him. But I new not to do drugs so I am just as responsible. So he hasn't been able to contact me at all. But i have been able to contact him through a messaging app. We've hooked up twice since then. He's apologized for it saying I wasn't thinking.. when he does drugs everyone is different and handles it different. I have forgave him but I'm tired of sneaking around with my parents. They can't legally do anything can they? I still want to see him because we are starting to grow into more of a friendship than hooking up. So what can I do. I still want to be respectful to my parents but it is my life. Idk I want to be able to go over there with him and hangout or stay the night. My parents know that we've hooked up and about the drugs.. but they would still be mad and try to go after him. So please give me some advice. Plus why would he be risking getting beat up or in trouble for drugs with the law for me??

Again, she has EVERYTHING. She's got a chance to live on two other countries and be treated like royalty if she wants cuz her mom and her dad's side of the family both come from "High Chief" clans where they're from.. she gets to go vacation wherever she wants.. she gets everyone attention without trying.. the boys that I know talk to her differently, all nice and sweet as if she's the cutest thing they've ever seen but when I talk to them, they joke around and try to piss me off just for laughs. Even her family loves her a bit too much. Like Her cousins even treat her differently than they treat their other cousins and I really f**king hate it because literally everyone in her life treats her like she's special. Shes knows this. I went with her and our group to the country her dad is from, Republic of Palau, and it literally seemed like everyone there knew who she was and welcomed her. She's not f**king special bruuhhhhh.. she hasn't done anything but live. I hate people like this. They're like leaches. They don't do crap yet they get everything handed to them. I've heard older people say that this generation is spoiled and selfish and she's the exact example of this. I was seriously wishing that someone could throw something at her when we were in Palau to show her that they don't give a crap about her or that her clan is one of the highest clans there. Like someone disrespect her or do something. She's not all that Not jealous at all but thanks ✌️ Just answer my question

my brother came over to visit at my mom and dad's house and my mom flipped out when he told her that he allowed his girlfriend to spend the time. she said we are a christian family and he's committing and a sin and that my dad needs to have a stern conversation with him. my dad told my mom " look he's a grown man and paying his own bills. you don't have a say so in what he does anymore." and she was still going crazy. my brother is 23. i'm 26 and like 2 years ago i went on a vacation with my boyfriend and spend the night with him and she lost her mind and called me like 500 times, my dad said she was having a mental break down.my mom even went to my boyfriend's mom house and his mom was like "they are grown, don't come here with this foolishness again". does she have psychological problems? whats the deal also i would like to add that every time i cook meals for the family she acts like she despises me. look its not my fault you don't know how to cook and refuse to learn. what do you want me to do ? starve. i mean come on

my mom has lost all trust in me because I made some very bad decisions while trying to cope with traumatic things that happened to me. I have changed my ways since I was finally able to open up to her to what happened and ive been doing better but she has no trust in me. I need to stay afterschool because physics is killing me and I have a group project to do but she doesnt let me so my grade is going down. How do i get her to let me stay?

Would it bother you if your significant other FaceTimed their kid because they live in different states but every time they get off the phone your significant other tells the baby mom/dad: love and miss you guys? Some may say that is the mother/father of their child but we also have a child on the way. Is it selfish to want them to keep it only about the kid? Is this over reacting about the situation?

My dad is disabled from an accident 17 years ago and can t work, recently he s gotten worse and can t afford his meds or frequent doctor visits. He still smokes which makes it worse and eats junk food.he also goes to the casino a lot which is filled with cigarette smoke. At first I gave him money because he s my dad and I felt bad. But I m a full time college student working part time and transferring to a different university next year. I want to save up because it s going to be more expensive over there but he just keeps asking for money. I feel bad saying no when I know I have it in my savings account but that s my future right there. Its always something with him. His credit cards are maxed out. Ive had to buy groceries before because theres no food in the house and when my little sister needs something like school supplies, rides, clothes, ect. He tells her to go to me. i think ive given him over 8,000 dollars already. Am I doing the right thing by saying no? How can I get him to stop borrowing from me it s been going on for years now.