My 6 year old daughter was shoved by an 11 year old girl. She thinks it was on purpose but doesn't know for sure. It started out as there being 2 playgrounds - the big kids aren't allowed on the little kids' playground for safety reasons. The older ones are usually bigger in size and will accidentally run over the younger kids. The older girl refuses to follow school rules. She goes to the little kids' playground anyways. She's there almost every recess unless a supervision aid catches her. My daughter said that the preteen was accidentally tripping over her & not letting anyone have their turn on the swings. She told the girl that she isn't allowed there, and the girl shoved her hard. My daughter wasn't injured though. The 11 year old says that her parents allow this so she can go there 🤷🏼‍♀️ However the school doesn't permit it. And it's effecting my own child.

I live in a very high priced home area. The average small home price in my city is $585,600 and that cost is increasing every month.. My daughter just recently graduated from college and got a good job that would allow her to make the loan payments for a home loan. However it will take her years to save enough for a down payment. She was talking with my dad about her desire to buy a home and because home prices keep rising she was afraid she would never get enough money to make the down payment. My dad is VERY CREATIVE and told her he had a solution to her problem. He told her he would loan her the money for the down payment and subtract that amount from my inheritance. He would then assign the loan to me. That means that if I want my inheritance, I will have to collect it from my daughter. I am not sure I want to do that. Does that seem fair to you? All my friends that I told about this tell me my daughter has the greatest grandfather there is. I am conflicted about this. Should I be happy with this arrangement or not?

I have been wondering and I do not know the answer. PLEASE HELP!

So I really miss hanging out with my cousin. We used to be close as kids but once we got into high school we grew apart. We'll be heading off to college soon and starting our new lives. I would really like to spend time together like we used to. I'm thinking about texting him but I'm not sure exactly what to say. He mostly hangs out with the popular kids, which I am not one. I'm just scared he'll say no and I'll be hurt. What should I do? What should I say to sound casual? I don't want to make him feel pressured into saying yes just because we're related. 

This is going to sound like a cliché whine-fest, but I promise, it's not how it may seem. Bottom line, my parents are absolutely ruining my life. I'm an adult, yet they do NOT want to "let go" and allow me to go on my own, adult way. I've never had a driver's license (despite being in my 20s) and they REALLY fought me bad on getting a job. It all started when I was 16 - aka "curious about driving age". I bought it up, they hesitated. My sibling (a little older than myself) learned at that age and was a VERY bad driver (totaled their vehicle they gave them). I understood this and told them I'd wait until I turned 18, then go and get a job so that I'd be able to pay my own insurance. They agreed with the plan and said they'd even help me pay for my first car. It never happened. When I turned 18, they took back everything they had agreed to. I asked to get a job to get my own car. They said no/refused to take me. Once I did get "permission" to work, I was only allowed very poor-paying jobs (aka fast food and stuff). I got lucky and found a good job by chance and now have money for a used car. They are not allowing me to go look at anything though. It makes me very angry. They know this and we've had many fights over it. They still won't change. I'm kind of afraid to drive now too. I know I can go and take my tests to get my license without my parents, but what if I fail? I'm scared of being a bad driver like my sibling. I want to be a good driver. What should I do? I feel so embarrassed about not having a car or my license. When co-workers ask about me not driving, I just lie and say I haven't found a decent car yet. It makes me feel so bad. I don't have freedom to just go where I want, when I want. I think they actually like that. They like the control. They like me having to primarily ask them for rides. I don't like it at all. I don't like being unfairly controlled. I don't get why they wouldn't want me to be my own person. They held me back so much when I was younger. I was one of the year teens as I said before that actually WANTED their own money. I liked the idea of working for whatever I wanted and being able to purchase things using my own money. I liked the idea of responsibility. My parents disagreed strongly and said at "that age", it was the parents' "job" to still provide for their child. They did not want 16/17 year old me working. Even once I turned 18, they thought I was "too young" for a job. Not having my own money caused me a lot of annoyance, anger and frustration. I wanted to buy things, but I didn't always want to ask/tell them about whatever I needed/wanted. I wanted to just do it on my own. When they did let me start working, they were very bad about "limiting" where I could and couldn't work, so I got stuck with low hours, low pay jobs. Now that I have a good paying job (again - I got SUPER lucky to find this position and am very thankful!), they still don't want to help. I've showed them car ideas, I've named used dealers to try out, I've even asked dealers questions about their available vehicles in my lot. One place has some good options I'm highly interested in and have some discounts going on currently. I told my parents this. They said "we'll get down there"... and nearly 3 weeks later, I'm still waiting for that trip to happen. I think they are partially jealous as well. My mom always comments how I make more money than her. I just want out of this. I know the common sense of driving. I know to always be aware of your surroundings and to be well prepared to stop suddenly should someone find it to be a great idea to just come on out instead of waiting. I also know speed kills and we have speed limits for a reason. I know to use extra caution in bad weather like rain or fog (and to roll down your window in heavy fog so you can listen for vehicles). My fears with driving are turning when other cars are there abd parking. I fear hitting one.

Im 28 years old yet I still want to get close to my dad. I like caressing his hair and smelling his hair. I cant help it he has good thick hair. He keeps it in a buzzcut. I am that way with other men too. I like good hair.

My mother, June told me she wanted to start dating again and hopefully get married again. She had lost a lot weight and had bought a whole new wardrobe. She ask my husband if she could model her new clothes for him. He agreed. After she had showed him her new clothes she ask my husband what he thought of her chances of finding a man that would marry her. He told her with her great looks, a year from now she would have been on her honeymoon. She should plan now for her wedding dress as he knew she will get a marriage proposal soon. She said is that true or are you just trying to make me feel good? He told her men can not resist a beautiful woman with a great figure and she would soon be married. She gave him a hug and said you are the best son in law ever. Should my husband even be thinking about mom's figure? For the record she does have a GREAT FIGURE. Was mom flirting with my husband or was he flirting with her. What do you think?

No one believes me.

When I was in sixth and seventh grade, I paid 75 cents every day for lunch. Other students paid either 25 cents or got lunch for free. When I first received my lunch card upon enrollment in that school, my mom told me that the reason I pay 75 cents is because of her yearly income. She also advised me not to tell my fellow students who pay less or free, because that would be rude. Now, as a adult, when I told my mom about this, she said that her income had nothing to do with that. Is my mother starting to forget, or do school applications never ask for parents' yearly income? I really need to know, because my mom had me on the verge of tears, not because she forgot, but because she reacted as if I caused her of being an accomplice to 9/11. It just stresses me out, because I don't understand why she yelled at me about that. All I said was that I paid the highest amount for lunch because she makes good money. Please help.

There is a girl named Arazo Maze. The YouTube channel I know her from is MazeLee. In a Q and A live stream for an hour, she is with her stepdad and her stepdad is carrying her with her facing front. If you want to see it, I'll send the link to you and the time stamp. She is in a pretty, pink dress. Her panties are showing and a little part of her ****** too I think. I took multiple snapshots and rewinded the video on slow motion too so I could get a better look. I'm a pervert, aren't I?

Lately all I can think about is the crappy childhood I had, my mum used to always tell me not to have children and it's not all it's cracked up to be, we never did anything as a family, my dad worked self employed and was hardly home and my mum was a housewife and didn't work outside the home so money was very tight,  I was brought up on my older sisters hand me downs, never allowed to go anywhere or do anything and was told I would never achieve anything and not to bother going to university by my mum as I'm not clever enough, my older sister was cleverer and got the funding for uni as I was still in education but I didn't have the same luck.  I've been working in a dead end job since leaving school and haven't achieved anything, I can hardly afford to live. I never see my family and live alone, my sister has loads of friends and a big social life and I never do anything, she doesn't make effort to see me and tells me to leave her alone. I keep questioning why my parents brought me into the world when they never wanted me, I feel alone and unhappy with no support. My sister was never kind to me and I feel they would be happier if I was never born. I tried to tell them how I felt once and they just laughed. Seriously why am I here?

My baby's father of 4months other baby's mom keeps calling him while we're together talking about she's putting him on child support and that he got her put out of her home with their child. So He laughed and said to her, "well that's your fault, You have a nasty attitude". Then she burst out CRYING. I don't know what's her problem or why she's STILL calling because he obviously doesn't want her anymore. She might as well just walk the streets and leave him alone

Here's the story I've been stealing items from my dad for a couple years and he hates me. I went to college for a month and withdrawed and he was very unhappy to see me back. I start work in five days, however I haven't played video games in 2 months and I was really bored so I thought I could get away with selling his pressure washer under his nose. However I got unlucky and he caught me in the act and has notified all of my other family members what I did (they don't like or trust me either) I'm kind of scared what's going to happen next. Any advice would be appreciated quickly

My parents without asking me are making me and my siblings go gluten free. My sister has been sick for a while and they think if they stop gluten she will be fine. I don't want this at all. I dont' want to be forced into this at all. I don't know what to do.

It feels so weird that I was at her mother's 50th in 1996 with my aunt and now all of a sudden I am going to the daughter's. It has been 23 years so it is not like it was yesterday but the year 1996 feels like yesterday. Soon this woman's sons will be turning 50. So how do I stop feeling old? I am 38 My mother, the wife of this person's nephew and cousin, died at my age when I was eleven so that makes me feel even older even though she dies young.

My parents are divorced and my mother lets hatred of my Dad eat her.

I'm a 19 y.o. male and unfortunately I'm only 5′1 (I've always been abnormally small) while my sister who's 3 years younger got lucky and is currently 5′9 (and possibly still growing). I used to pick on her all the time when we were kids so of course she teases me about this now. Anyways, since she outgrew me she started wearing high heel shoes and boots more often just to rub in the fact that I'm so much shorter than her. She likes to hold things above my head where I can't reach and then laugh at me, or stand really close to me while wearing heels to try and intimidate me. Recently when I came back from college, she greeted me while wearing a pair of 5 inch platform heels and my head was basically level with her breasts. The annoying thing is that everyone treats her like she's the older sibling now and thinks i'm her little brother! (even tho I guess technically i am). But how do I get her to stop wearing heels and is there any way I can grow taller to regain my status as the older sibling?

I'm a 14 year old Muslim girl with very strict parents living in a strict family. I've always been underweight but it's been worse recently, no matter how much I try to eat. I'm 37 kg at 5'1" It got to a point where I myself want to go to the doctor and check up on why this is happening and get help. But every time I tell my parents they tell me that it's cause I don't eat a lot. They're very stubborn. How do I convince them to go to the hospital or how do I fake being really ill/overreact so they can take me to the hospital?

I'm 24yo, I am still at home due to a situation with my mother. She is disabled due to RA, and cannot do much on her own, so I choose to stay here and help her while my dad is at work.  For some reason, I feel uncomfortable around my dad. He has never done me any harm; or approached me in a strange manner so I'm not sure why I feel this way, but I do.  He'll offer to open a door for me, and I'll feel better walking in behind him. I don't like when he is too close to me; even hugs which is sad because he is my father and he won't be here forever, but I am having a hard time being affectionate even to family.  I have caught him watching porn a couple times(that I know of, second time being tonight)which he doesn't know that I know, but that doesn't help me feel any better either that this is what he does after drinking all day on a day off.  A few years ago, I dated a man much older than me(by 20yrs). My dad hated him, and never approved. But I don't remember feeling this way until after I dated this man.. or at least not as bad. But now the feeling is overwhelming, and I want to just leave but unfortunately, that is not an option as of now.  Anyway to shake this feeling??? 

So I belong to an American-Pakistani family of Muslims and we are currently living Pakistan. And being a Muslim girl, I'm not allowed to dress a certain way( no sleeveless, pants must cover til ankle, scarf covering chest) A lot of male workers come in and out of the house as we're renovating the gym upstairs, and my room is down the hall which is where I usually stay. I typically wear baggy and long pjs at home, but my mom wants me to take a scarf around my chest every time I leave the room because there are men there and apparently "I have to protect myself from their gaze." She does not even let me play basketball without a scarf with my uncle and does not even let me show ankles in front of my brother or dad. We have a male cook, so she does not allow me to enter the kitchen while he is in there and does not let me stay in my room unless it is locked when there are men working upstairs, although my brother has none of these rules and has much more freedom than me. When I try to talk to her about this l, she just says "it's the way of Islam"  What do I do?

I offered to take in the daughter so the parents and other siblings could heal as well as the daughter I took in. The daughter had a hard time in school because of peer abuse and learning disabilities. She was abused by a member of the other side of her family when little also. Her mother played favorites it seemed to me and she was the "black sheep" of the 3 kids. There was a "golden one" daughter and then the son is Autistic. After I took this daughter in my sister would call me to see what she was up to. I was discreet about mistakes the daughter made at times cause I knew the mother would make a mountain out of a molehill. Thus I did not give her gossip since the daughter was an adult. After a year the daughter, my niece, moved into her own place. I have remained close to her and it has been 4 years now. My sister has barely spoken to me and her other two kids have not except once. The son seems almost scared of me. So I am told by others the reason my sister says she resents me is she believes I am a liar since I did not call her with gossip on the daughter. She also thinks the daughter is not any better since the daughter still keeps a distance from her mother and step-father (real father is an alcoholic and thus distant). My sister also feels I lied to her according to others. So was I wrong not to give the gossip on my niece to her mother? Was I wrong not to call and spread word of any little mistakes? Was I an enabler?

 Adam Smith ( the efficient society) and Karl Polanyi (The great transformation) argue that establishing a market economy entails wholesale social transformation. But im trying to understand what were the differences in their view of this.

Hi I'm 24 and I have a 5 month old and I'm trying to start working to provide a better life for us and move in my own apartment and we stay with my mom and younger sisters and since they go to school half of they day I will need my mom to watch my son until they get out of school and then they would watch him but I think she would want me to pay her and I don't think that's right because she loves spending time with him and he's her grandchild, should I pay her something every week for watching him? and I don't pay rent or anything I would just sometimes give her money when I can but my older sisters didn't really give her anything before they moved out and she also has a job and she is on section 8.

The daughter and come to me for help this past summer and I was nice but used caution as I knew she was unstable and I thought possibly using drugs. She's not using drugs it turns out but does have some issues right wind just hand her cash regularly. Her mother was not upset that I was courteous to her but wanted me and other members of the family to know how horrible and a side of store behaviors. She wrote a 25 page letter professing all the horrible things were daughter had done over the years. The struck me as evil when she is the mother and almost creepy. The daughter and come to me for help this past summer and I was nice but used caution as I knew she was unstable and I thought possibly using drugs. She's not using drugs it turns out but does have some issues right wing just hand her cash regularly. Her mother was not upset that I was courteous to her but wanted me and other members of the family to know how horrible her behavior is. She wrote a 25 page letter professing all the horrible things were daughter had done over the years. This struck me as evil when she's the mother and almost creepy. How do I respond to this letter? Or should I just totally ignore it? I'm not terribly close to the mother who is a cousin of my moms but I do see her from time to time. Her daughter became a neighbor of mine recently. The daughter has not had a relationship with her parents in five years aside from seeing them at large family events in the extended family. SORRY, THIS WAS SAID INTO AN I PHONE AFTER I READ THE LETTER AGAIN TODAY, SORRY THE GRAMMAR MADE NO SENSE. I WILL TYPE NEXT TIME.

My youngest sister confided in me that my older sister and brother molested her when she was younger. I'm the youngest. Anyway, I remember my older sister showering with me as a very young child. I don't recall anything else, but my younger sister also confirmed my memory. I'm not distraught over this, but I am unsure how to feel. Also, my older sister was an adult at the time. My younger sister recalls her trying to convince my mother of showering together.