Today, I was babysitting a kid for the first time. She asked if she could watch a movie, so I downloaded Cinderella for her. An hour later, this 10-year-old girl was lecturing me about unrealistic standards of beauty and abusive relationships, and how I suck for liking the movie. 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, while babysitting a young girl, I put on the movie Bambi, as she told me it was her favorite movie. I didn't know that her parents always skipped the scene where Bambi's mom dies. Despite my attempts to comfort her, she was still upset when her parents returned. Her mom blamed me. FML
Today, I asked out a girl I like to a movie. She said "I hate babysitting." FML
Today, I babysat a 10 year old from hell. She kept insulting me, saying I have tiny boobs, that boys must hate me, and that I'm ugly. I eventually got fed up and put her to bed. When her parents came back, she ran out of her room in tears and told them I'd beaten her. They believed it. FML
Today, I hired a babysitter for my two kids for the evening. When I came home, I found her sitting on the floor, crying with a full bowl of popcorn, watching a kids' movie. Apparently, my six-year-old had decided to re-enact every scene from the movie, and she couldn’t take it anymore. I had to hug her and assure her that she was doing a great job. FML
Today, I visited my girlfriend in the preschool she's interning at. She asked me to continue reading The Little Mermaid to her class, handing me the book. After the story, the whole class started to cry. She never told me to sugarcoat the ending and lie, Disney-style. FML
Today, I got home and found my babysitter furious and my 5 year-old exhausted from crying. Normally he chooses to wear Disney princess dresses but today his grandma came for a visit, saw what he was wearing, told him he was bad, and forced him to wear trousers. I’m ready to kill the bitch. FML
Today, I was watching the movie Frozen with my 8 year old daughter. I had seen it before, so I sung along with some of the songs. My daughter put a finger over my lips, said "Shhhhhhhhut the fuck up," then turned back to the TV, giggling. FML
Today, I went to watch the Movie "UP." At one point in the movie I got really sad and started to cry a bit. The 7 year old girl next to me noticed and told me to shut and man up. FML
Today, I had to deal with a snobby rich woman who asked me to cure her daughter's "unhealthy obsession" with playing outside instead of watching TV with the rest of the family. She called me a liar when I said playing outside is a normal thing for a 6 year-old child to do. FML
Today, I had to pick my daughter up from pre-school because she repeatedly hit another kid with a stick. Apparently, my parents have been letting her watch violent action movies again. FML
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Sir_Loin257 4
How is cinderella unrealistic? She drives a pumpkin seems perfectly realistic to me
lilhellian 27
17, So she can't have a personal opinion that is "correct" unless it follows your opinion? Hell at 10 years old I think it pretty smart she can comprehend that.
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Comments (71)
FlyingPie 17
Perhaps she should learn to suspend her disbelief and just enjoy a movie. :P
graceinsheepwear 34
There is a guy who created a Barbie based on statistical measurements of the average American 19-year-old woman. You can see her by googling average Barbie. She looks healthy, like a beach volleyball player, and the traditional Barbie looks like an alien next to her.
justmeCee 16
Actually it was a woman named Ruth Handler that created the Barbie doll in 1959, and her inspiration was not a real girl, it was after a German doll named Bild Lilli. She did name Barbie after her daughter though.
graceinsheepwear 34
I was not talking about the original Barbie creator, as was clear if you read my post. I said that a man--in New Jersey actually-- created a variation he calls average Barbie.
worldclassrager 41
Ask her what movie she would like to watch...and always Disney movies are great classics no matter the age and usually enjoyable...
Steve95401 49
Walt Disney would be spinning in his cryonic chamber if he heard some of these comments.
obff527 7
You should have let her watch Kick Ass. She sounds like Hit Girl!
Amilli97 9
Kids these days...
beclaurela 18
I definitely thought the FML was going to say something like "an hour later a **** scene had popped up in the movie"
Ki11erC 18
10 yrs old is not exactly the young child that enjoys fairy tales these days. At least she didn't lecture you on the morals of downloading such an old film or the downloading of ;)
Capriccio22 13
I like her already
Alicestraza 33
The true meaning of how important it is to be beautiful so that you can kiss a handsome prince and get married?