Today, I was babysitting my nephew. He was acting up, so instead of spanking him, I put him in the corner for timeout. He screamed and thrashed and kicked the walls so hard my neighbors called the police. My sister wasn’t answering her phone, and I had to explain why a 7-year-old was acting like that. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was babysitting. Everything was going well until the kid called 911 on me for making him eat his vegetables. FML
Today, I visited my brother, and noticed that my 17 year-old nephew was being unusually cold and grumpy; a sign that he's having sensory overload. Because his parents are so loud, I knew they were responsible. When I confronted them, they responded by yelling at me and grounding him. Sorry, nephew, I tried. FML
Today, I was babysitting a 7 year-old brat. He refused to eat his vegetables, so I forbade him from playing until they were finished. He stomped off upstairs, so I let him cool off for a couple of minutes. When I went upstairs, he had taken scissors to all of his mother's clothes. FML
Today, I had to babysit my 7-year-old niece while my brother bought Christmas presents. After he left, she walked up to me and said in a very dark voice, "I'm gonna make you hate children!" Now my apartment looks like a bomb site. FML
Today, I was babysitting a 5 year old boy. When I was on the phone with my mom, he called 911 and started to cry. When I got off the phone the police were at the door. It turns out that the "emergency" was that the VCR was not working. FML
Today, I was asked to take care of my 3 year-old little brother. After 15 minutes of him screaming and me trying to keep him entertained, he started throwing his toy cars at me. He hit me in the mouth, and I started to bleed. My parents yelled at me for "not controlling him." FML
Today, I was babysitting my 4 year-old twin brothers yet again. I began to get desperate when they took my phone and would start crying every time I tried to take it back. My mother found me thirty minutes later, huddled in a corner, crying. I'm 27 years-old. FML
Today, I had to babysit two kids. It all went well until one of them duct taped a knife to a toy machine gun, lit the barbecue on fire, and ran around like a wild banshee screaming obscenities. The other one got scared and climbed onto the roof of the house. FML
Today, I was babysitting my niece when we decided to play hide and seek. I went in the shed, and waited. After waiting a while, I went to go back inside to see what was happening. I saw my niece had locked all the doors and was eating cookies on the kitchen bench. FML
Today, I was babysitting my neighbor's kid. We were playing in the yard, when he fell and got a small scratch on his leg. I gasp, and he takes a huge breath in and yells, "FUUUCK!!!" as loud as possible. The parents thought it was me, and the mother slapped me in the face. FML
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Grizz8831 14
I would assume a cop walking in and seeing a child acting in such a way, while standing perfectly fine in the corner would most likely chuckle, ask about any sort of abuse as they have to and leave. pretty easy to tell when a child on time out is hurt or being an asshole. I have seen the difference growing up.
Jonkbaby 23
Guessing that his mom lets him slide on acting up
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Jonkbaby 23
Guessing that his mom lets him slide on acting up
Sweetie 5
If she continues to let him slide she'll be seeing a lot more of the cops in the future.
kfchicken 31
slide or not no kid will always be well behaved. let's not make a snap judgment on the mothers abilities based on a 15 word fml
Grizz8831 14
I would assume a cop walking in and seeing a child acting in such a way, while standing perfectly fine in the corner would most likely chuckle, ask about any sort of abuse as they have to and leave. pretty easy to tell when a child on time out is hurt or being an asshole. I have seen the difference growing up.
rotflqtms_ 21
Yeah, just say he's in time out for acting up and you are trying to handle the situation. How do they expect you to stop him from doing that? Tie him up and Gag him? He has his own body and they can't fine you for something someone else is doing.
kazekai8 11
My dad would have whoop my ass with a belt with that behavior when I was younger.