Today, my 12 and 14 year olds told me they'll be doing whatever they like from now on and there will be no rules or bedtime, otherwise they'll tell their teachers that my husband and I abuse them. Where did I go wrong? 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, my husband went on a tirade, accusing me of bullying and being too hard on our kids. Apparently, I’m taking this homeschool thing too serious, and I need to cut them a break. All I did was make them write their letters and numbers on paper instead of just using their tablets. Yeah, real mean. FML
Today, my parents and in-laws let my 4 year-old watch as much TV as he wants. Not cartoons but brain-rot and weird stuff on YouTube. Let him skip naps. Feed him primarily junk food, and sweets. They don't respect his 8 pm bedtime and let him play until 12 am or later. Then they wonder why I don't visit more often. FML
Today, my kids are mad I won’t let them hang out at the “cool” parents house. You know, the house with no rules. I’ve heard way too many horror stories, too many true crime documentaries, plus personal experience, to ever let that happen. I will never EVER trust adults that like to party with kids. FML
Today, my family once again mocked and insulted me for being the only one to not spank my kids. Apparently, they’ll grow up entitled and in prison if I don’t. Odd, seeing as my kids are 10 times better behaved than their kids, who get spanked on a regular. Ah well, here’s to hitting kids I guess. FML
Today, my parents still think they can control me. I’m 27, married, and have a son. Even after all the abuse and trauma over the years, they still think that everything is fine. That they did their “best”. Why do they think this is right, and think they should have any right to my son or even see him? FML
Today, my fiancé's kids say they never want to come back to our house because I’m “mean” and have "too many rules." Rules such as brushing teeth twice a day, flushing the toilet after every use, no food allowed in the bedrooms, and no sleeping in until 2pm. Guess that makes me unreasonable. FML
Today, I realized that my 14 year-old runs my home. She has her own room, while her 11 year-old sister and I (her mother) share a room. I literally have to get her permission to go anywhere as well. FML
Today, my parents threatened to take away my college funds. Why? Because I complained about my 10 pm curfew during break as a freshman in college. FML
Today, my parents tried to apologize for wrongly grounding me. I told them to go fuck themselves, so now I'm re-grounded. FML
Today, I once again told my son he needed a job and a girlfriend because I simply could not keep him in my house anymore. He yelled, "No, I can do whatever I want!" Then went back to playing video games. He's 38. FML
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Hijacker101 12
You should tell them, that if they say that, they will be taken away from you, and placed in foster care, where there will be rules, bedtimes and chores they're trying to escape.
Roxas_hearts 27
Something like this happened to my uncle. His son (my cousin) called the cops on him for telling him to study, saying he hurt him. He had to live with us for a couple days. It's sad because now he's too afraid to discipline his youngest one now because if something is brought to the cops again it could get his kids taken away from him.
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Rammer3500 23
You raised very smart, crafty children.
sthompson4447 1
Ask them how living with social services in a foster home sounds?
NostalgiaFreak9 43
This is what I would do if I were you; I would secretly calls the teachers to let them know what they said, then punish them for what they said, and when they go spreading lies and slander to their teachers, they won't believe them. And let's hope they don't call the cops.
adonatrix1996 8
I think you and your husband made devil children.
danman27 15
"If you call child services, they take 30 minutes to get here. In that 30 minutes, somebody gonna get hurt real bad"
ThatOneGuyBrodie 7
Tell them that if they do tell their teachers that they're being abused that they will conduct an investigation to see if it's true and that the police will see that they're lying and that they'll go to Juvenile Detention(Not actually true I don't think ,but they'll be scared) or that they'll be placed in "the horrible foster care with people who don't love them"
shanson 22
One is a teenager. Lying won't work when they can just google it. Plus lying isn't a good way to get your kids to be honest with you
anonymouspersonm 6
This is why I didn't become a teacher. Children have way to much power to destroy a persons career.
_M3talH3ad 8
You birthed them. Thats where you went wrong. And you probably didn't punish them for being bad either.
Dawnoftime 12
The rebellion has begun
Crazycucumbers 8
While they are at school, hide or sell their games or tablets or anything of that nature. Hide their beds. If it's their rules, they don't get to use things YOU purchased for them.