I believe its too close. Its better for siblings to be born more than 4 years apart. Being born that close means you have to go to middle school and high school with them. If anything happens at school they will find out. They tend to get in your business. They tell you what not to do at school.They pretty much judge. Its better to be over 4 years since they will have their own generation and they won't have to share it. How do you guys feel how about the close age gap? they will also accuse you of embarrassing them at school. They will find out anything you do at school

My family got a puppy for both my brother and I to take care of equally. I ALWAYS take care of him (he is well taken care of and given enough exercise). Sometimes I'll go out with my friends and ask my brother to take care of him, making sure my entire family knows I'm leaving so that the dog isn't left uncared for. While I'm out I almost always get a call from a distraught family, yelling at me because he had done something bad like pee in the house or something. This happens because my brother doesn't take him out. I alway get called home and blamed for not taking care of my dog, even though it's only around twice a week that I want my brother to care the dog.

My boyfriend has a habit of stealing and taking money from me or our savings. Last year he stole my credit card to pay rent without telling me and spent the rent on an old debt which he also forget to tell me about. He's been taking money from our car savings because we currently have one car and we figured we needed another one when he starts working again. He took out about 400 to buy me a ring as well but I personally believe that he only bought me a ring as an excuse to smooth over the fact that he took out money prior to buying the ring, about 300 dollars plus the 400 for the ring. Every time we get ahead, he always finds a way to mess it up and spend all of our money, I hide the money and he always seems to find it. He's always having to repay me for something. I get tired of the lying and the stealing and the lack of ambition. He is a great dad, but a terrible role model. There just wasn't enough discipline in his life and quite frankly, I am tired of having to deal with his teenage self. My biggest problem is I could never afford to live on my own and we have two kids together. I'm finishing up college this year so I can hopefully get a good paying job. I just feel like there aren't any options for me. I hate getting these kind of surprises every month. After a while you start to expect to get lied to and I hate it....any advice?

I'm 22 and I have 2 aunts, 17 and 13. and my uncle is 5. Since this is pretty rare, can they possibly make a tv show about me called "The baby aunts and uncles" or like "Little youngsters". I want money lol, who can I give this idea too?

13 years old lying to not get in trouble. Not doing his part on what we agree, such as asking for lunch money when balance is low, etc. Last straw- took money out of my wallet. (Full family (mom & dad) and younger brother.)

I moved in with my mom after transfering to a nearby college. I was supposed to take my mom to the airport today at 11am. So yesterday i went to sleep at around 3,usually im good with 6 hrs of sleep. So my mom actually woke me up at around 10 and i was still a bit sleepy(i just woke up) my mom started asking me these questions which i really dont remember, since i was half asleep. The thing is she got really mad and started accusing me of being on drugs or high or something and not being able to drive ,so there i am trying to tell her i havent done any drugs, while she just starts beating me bad(she has not hit me since i was like 8,she isnt a violent person either, and i have never seen her this mad,screaming and hitting me in the face) and btw I have never done drugs except weed like back in highschool 2 or 3 times, but its been a while and i dont think she even knows about that. So i dont even know the reason behind it. She got a neighbor to drive her and she kind of spread that i was on drugs and i couldnt drive her ,so now i feel ashamed for something i have not even done. I called in sick to work, cause i dont wanna show up with a swollen face(she probably hit me in the face more than 20 times and i am not exaggerating). She left for a few weeks with the thought of me being a junkie basically. I just feel horrible and i have not done anything wrong. All my neighbors probably think im a drug addict too. It sucks and i do not know how to handle the situation.

My nephew who is diagnosed when he was three is starting to be too much to handle at home he is now 9 years old and we need to find a solution. If anyone has any personal recommendations and can tell me a little bit about your experience with them that would be great 💙💜❤️ Thank you

Her father yells at her regularly, cusing at her and making her work for extended periods of time whenever she messes up on something minor. Occasionally he will hit her and although he will apologize indirectly with kindness and affection after it repeats and sometimes escalates. Is this normal behavior for a strict parent or is this an issue?

Her 11 year old daughter wants to sign up for those creepy child beauty pageants, but is lying to her mom that it's a normal dance class. My friend does not know English so it's hard to do her own research. She often relies on her American-born daughter to translate. Her daughter appears to have a friend from school who participates in these sexualized pageants. I know her mom will be extremely upset if she finds out that her daughter even attempted it (judging by the fact that she is strict about her children wearing age-appropriate clothes, and no makeup until they're at least teens). The girl admitted that she'll get her friend's mom to drive her home so her own mom will "never find out". I don't know if I should leave it up to the mother to figure it out, or just tell her now. Her daughter's plan isn't very advanced so it's quite easy for a parent to figure it out. In fact, she might not even get past the "getting my mom to sign me up" stage - but only if mom coincidentally wants to look at the other kids competing first, and realize that something is totally wrong.

Every weekday, my mother comes home from work between 5PM and 9PM, later than the usual 9 to 5 job. She clearly feels horrible, not in the mood for anything and wanting to go to bed almost immediately. Making matters worse, she has to spend her weekends working as well. As for her boss, from what I heard she is simply a disrespectful person constantly making condescending remarks towards my mother and other employees. She constantly fires people and does not care when others quit. A few weeks ago, one former employee attempted to contact Human Resources. After questioning my mother about her boss, they gave my mother the "everything will be OK" crap. I use the term "crap" for this case because from what I can tell, things are only getting worse. I cannot stand to see my mother like this on a daily basis. She works so hard at work and around the house and I feel a constant indirect guilt towards the whole situation. Is there any way I can help my mother to try to make things better?

i'm trying to make at least $500 by the end of july. i know i could apply to jobs but i need more options. babysitting i could do but how do i reach out? any other suggestions, please and thank you! :)

Hey! So like most teenagers I'm obviously not going to want to spend all my time with my parents. I turned 16 last month and since then I kinda wanted to grow up and get more space from my parents, specially my mom. For school events I don't really invite her or if I do I downplay it so she won't come. Since I have young siblings it's embarrassing because she brings them and with them being kids they can't really stay quite and end up interrupting with their cries or asking our mom for food. I think it's hard for my mom when I tell her I want space since I grew up with my dad for most my life and didn't live with her until I was 14. I guess she's trying to get quality time with me but I'm older now and it's kinda weird to have your mom with you everywhere you go. I know I'm privileged to have such an involved mom, but it's a little much at time. Anyway, does anyone have tips to explain why I don't want her to come or even how I should tell her? I feel as if there's a fine line in making her upset at me or feel sad. Thanks for any help!

My dream is medicine. It used to be Columbia University but that is just not practical. The beginning of this year I applied for a Columbia Summer Immersion 3-Week Program for Environmental Conservation Biology just because of Columbia. I didn't even think or anything I just say YES TAKE MY MONEY (made a hefty non-refundable deposit). 6 months later, I highly regret that now. It's definetly amazing program that I will be attending because I can't waste my parents money, but how am I supposed to deal with the fact that I just wasted 5000 dollars of my parents money because I'm so dumb and can't think things through? How is conservation biology going to help me with my journey through medicine? I just feel so bad for wasting my parent's money

Whenever my mom is upset she'll let it out on me and my siblings. She often calls me names and threatens to throw me out, often over minor inconveniences. Today, however, I lost my temper during another argument and yelled: "You're just like your mother!" she flipped out and started yelling insults at me. She tore my favorite posters off the walls in my room, threatened to punch me and then grabbed my arm so hard she left a big, purple bruise on my arm that keeps swelling. She threw me out of her house, telling me to walk to my father's house. My sister snuck me my phone and told me to call my dad, so I did and he was on his way to get me. My mom then yelled at me to come back inside and get all my stuff packed up since she wanted me out of the house. As I was getting everything ready she came into my room and tried to apologize, then asked me to stay and tell my dad not to get me. She promised to replace my posters. When I told her about the bruise she just said "You're just sensitive" and "Now you know not to **** with me." I'm staying at my dad's house now for a few days and she kept questioning my decision to go over there, saying "So what? Are you gonna go over there to talk **** about me with your father??". I told her that I wasn't and that I just wanted things to cool down. That's pretty much it. I'm at his house now, trying to make sense of what just happened. Is this abuse? Is my mother manipulative? I'd also like to add that she's very dismissive of my feelings, she laughs at my face when I try to explain to her that school stresses me out. She also plays with my emotions by saying things like: "Why don't you love your mother?" in a joking way, but when I don't respond the way she wants me to, she gets upset. She also talks badly of my dad in front of my siblings and has tried countless times to turn us against him.

My wife got pregnant with her daughter when she was 19 she had her at 20 so did some of her friends. I have half of them on Facebook some I don't know I don't know why I have them. Seems like every time I'm on there I see drama mostly has something to do with a kid. I saw last night from one of her friends posted " I hate my son's dad with passion I hope you remember you love your son ". Also this all makes me think of Teen Mom probably thats where all this is coming from lots of her friends seem to love it now they're living it in a way. She went through the same thing with her daughter's father luckily he wasn't abusive or attacked her like most do. She was watching a episode of 16 And Pregnant the other day this girl had twins her boyfriend didn't have any respect for her he kicked her out of the car and took the kids then she called the cops then they started fighting. I never seen so much drama with kids in my life. Why does it seem like having kids is a bad thing anymore ?

We fight once a week over her careless bad attitude thats random. For example she does things that are total screw ups and like she doesn't do anything right or can focus. It worries me. I'm also very drained by her all the time and she cantveven sit still during a movie or stop talking and looking at me. Her plus sides are that shes there for me a lot, but lately she nags and acts like a cranky old lady. We live in a poor house and it's stressful too because it's a lot of work and the area is crummy. I feel like it beats living with my parents though, but Im also not doing anything with my life. She's not very motivating and is content just being retired and rotting at home. Plus sides is she lets me do whatever I want and we have fun a lot together but maybe need more time apart? It's just that lateky she does very reckless things and it effects both of us. She will buy very old broken antique junk and it hoards up space. And waste her money buying me things I did not ask for.I keep trying to teach her to save money and eat right as well. Also be tidy.

We never get to see our cousins anymore cause our aunts brainwash them against the other families just as my Mom tries to do to us though I don't fall for it. I am an adult and so are they but they fall for the brainwashing. Our mothers are infantile. The only uncle is a slave to his wife and his wife has always hated the family. This is all so depressing, especially in the summer when we used to all gather and at the Thanksgiving-Christmas holidays.