Today, I offered to help my 15 year-old nephew with taking care of his newborn baby. First thing I see when I enter his room is him playing Mario Kart on his Nintendo Switch, and his child with a full diaper, screaming and crying. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I had my son do some chores around the house. I was fairly proud of him for doing it himself, until he told me he accidentally washed his Nintendo in his sheets, and now it doesn’t work. I can’t afford a new one and he now refuses to do chores because, “I did and look what happened!” FML
Today, I was babysitting my 5 month-old nephew, who hasn't pooped in two days according to his mom. Well, he pooped. I accidentally stuck my finger in it. While I was wiping my finger off, he rolled over and peed on my new carpet. I rolled him over to clean the pee and he opened fire and pooped again. FML
Today, I was potty-training my nephew. He had been on the toilet for almost twenty minutes and could not go. My phone started ringing, and as I went to pick it up he knocked it into the toilet. He then peed and pooped on it. FML
Today, I woke up to the sound of my newborn screaming. I frantically hopped out of bed and stumbled into the nursery where I was met by the priceless sight of my five-year-old daughter attempting to breastfeed her understandably frustrated little brother. FML
Today, my baby brother learned to remove his nappy. He immediately used this new skill to shit all over my room. FML
Today, my toddler was supposed to be taking a nap. Instead, he decided it was the perfect time to remove his own nappy for the first time ever. He painted his walls, floor, bed and body, then started crying because he was dirty. FML
Today, I agreed to babysit my baby nephew for a week while his parents flew abroad for the MIL’s funeral. I had hoped having a baby around might convince my wife to consider having kids. Nope. She got so sick of the baby, she moved into a hotel until my sister comes home. FML
Today, my sister and her two-year-old came to my place for a visit. Not long after arriving, my niece ripped off her diaper and immediately took a dump on my white carpet. Guess who had to 'suddenly' leave afterwards, leaving me to clean up the mess. FML
Today, I volunteered to babysit my nephew. He somehow managed to lock himself in the bathroom and then flood it with the sink. I had to call his parents, and they're now on their way home from their romantic anniversary dinner. I'm not even getting paid for this. FML
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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Top comments
Sonotsuave 37
Wow that’s young to be a dad. Sounds like he needs some parenting counseling and some parenting classes, and needs to learn the sense of responsibility of parenting real quick.
JackWood 21
So you helped by taking the nintendo away, right?
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Comments (8)
JaheimXD 5
Wait. He made the baby? :0
Hangryko 32
Tell him you'll call the cops for child neglect if he doesn't shape up.
JackWood 21
So you helped by taking the nintendo away, right?
RichardPencil 32
He needs to ... Switch ... to playing "Call of Doody."
Sonotsuave 37
Wow that’s young to be a dad. Sounds like he needs some parenting counseling and some parenting classes, and needs to learn the sense of responsibility of parenting real quick.
sarsuela 29
People are so quick to judge. While he probably is young and irresponsible, not being able to soothe a crying baby does awful things to your brain and some time off is really necessary. Better Mario Kart than a shaken baby. Give him the help he needs whether it is giving time off or sending him to time out corner.
Hangryko 32
No, he could have asked for help instead of ignoring his child who could get a really bad infection if not changed promptly.
Anderling 33
Changing a poopy diaper needs to be step one, *then* optionally step 2 cry it out, step 3 soothe baby. Not “step 1: let the kid stew in his own faeces, step 2: play video games”.
CowgirlWithHeart 16
If all basic needs have been tried and the baby is still screaming I support letting the baby scream (provided you know its not due to some health issue) breaks are definitely better than losing your cool. HOWEVER, letting your baby scream due to a dirty diaper is NOT okay.
Chazzster 32
When children have children… Just because something is biologically possible doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
IHaveThePower 18
Your nephew is *15*. He (and the presumably 15-y-o mom) should at NO point be the primary caretakers of an infant, because they're not developmentally ready for it. You need to talk to the nephew's parents, because someone has to actually be in charge of the baby, and your nephew needs to *learn from them*, not just be thrown in the deep end. Seriously, there is no way in hell a 15-year-old is ready to be the primary caretaker of an infant. You need to step up and get the infant responsible, ADULT caretakers, because what's going on now is abusing both your nephews.