Kids can be a handful, just ask any mom with a pulse. You need all the help you can get when taking care of even one, but where does it cross the line? Is it justified to call on the help of a stranger, and is it even safe to do so? For this unsuspecting and seemingly overwhelmed mom, she happened to encounter a non-threatening woman in the park. But is it fair to expect her to watch the kid, even if it's just for five minutes? This level of awkwardness can’t be made up. From book-snatching to…

Someone Call the Babysitter

Family helps family.

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Having ‘child free’ weddings are becoming more and more common. I mean, it makes sense. Who wants their wedding ceremony destroyed by screaming children, crying babies, or immature belligerence? It makes sense, yet if you invite your friends and family, there’s going to be a child related to them. It’s unavoidable, and if one wants to insist on their wedding being without children, they just need to know that either everyone is on the same page…

If you have a sister close in age, you probably laugh, cry, and fight just as loudly. The expression “go big or go home” might exist for this very reason. As someone with a sister, you can’t convince me otherwise. Once you both become mothers, one or both of you get to be the cool aunt, adding yet another thing—or rather, someone—to bond over. Plus, who doesn’t love free babysitting? Seems like a win-win to me! I bet that’s exactly what this pair of sisters thought, too… until this incident hap…

Respect goes both ways, sis

"He said I was trying to mess up his life."

Some people think that just because they are forgetful, everyone else should forgive them for acting irresponsibly. Forgetting things, even if it is by accident, should not be a valid excuse, and there is a point in your adult life when you simply can't use it to explain your way out of commitments you failed to attend. It seems like the daughter in this Reddit story thought that her ignoring, or ‘forgetting’, her mother's wishes would simply be forgotten, but she could not have been more wrong…

Nobody's gonna know...

Welcome back ladies and gents of the internet. The word ‘responsibility’ has a different ring as a parent. Your responsibility to your child cannot be compared to anything else. If you let someone else watch your kid, you have to know that what happens is out of your hands, and that if you don’t meet them at the promises you made, you could be disappointed in the end. This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this thread, the original poster (OP) is a man who’s agreed to be his nephew’s babysitte…

Some moms are blessed with great mothers-in-law. Others, not so much...

She's thriving without him.

I don't think insulting people is the most effective way to get people to do favors for you.

This has to be a trick.

When it comes to free babysitting, no one should actually feel they're obligated contribute when it's not their kid. We're all aware of the notion that some people don't like kids at all, only their own, and some people don't even like their relatives kids! There's only a certain amount of empathy one can hold for others , and if personal boundaries are stepped over, then it's up to the person to redraw the line. In this reddit thread, it's about just that. The original poster (OP) is a woman w…

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. There’s a lot of heat and contention around free babysitting. When you’re related to someone, there’s a certain level of expectation that they’ll help out with things for you. Family supports one another, that’s just ingrained in being a family. But being in a family also carries its own dynamics and need for boundaries. You can go out on a limb and help a family member, but if it’s a constant thing, or something they could easily handle alone,…