DS6 kicked DS3, then lied to me about it. I get it, siblings fight-but the lying makes me so mad. I took away his DS the rest of the day and had him finish cleaning his room alone. (What they were arguing about.) He seems unphased. Next time, I think he can clean litter boxes.

My sister has more-than-friendly feelings for a coworker. He es married, and they're both playing the "this is innocent but no so much" game. I don't like it, but I'm not her mom, right? She knows what I think, and that's that. What she DOESN'T know is that I started having such feelings for a coworker (I'm the one who's married in this case), but quickly cut them short. He's still a great friend, but I'm not even thinking about him that way any more. Dont' want ANYBODY getting hurt: him, my husband, my kids, or myself. And I did manage! how? Looking at him as a sibling, not a could-be flirt.

I can't stand one of my kids. He comes home from school and the house is immediately in upheaval. I can't stand it anymore!! Right away there's NOISE, his siblings crying, him having tantrums about homework, etc. My god. I'm at the absolute end of my rope with him.

People keep asking when we're going to "give our daughter a sibling" so we decided to get her a dog instead.

Close friends of mine adopted brothers, ages 2 and 4 that were taken away from their birth mom for abuse and neglect. Since then, the birth mom has had three more children she doesn't want and can't raise, and my friends have adopted each in turn after agonizing about if they could afford another baby/child. In the end they decided they had to take each, so the kids could stay siblings. I think that woman should have been sterilized after the first two.

Nope. MY family has made plans with us for weeks to go to a theme park. My parents, siblings, cousins are going along with my grandmother. This is the day we reserved our tickets. I am not moving that because your kid has football practice. Tough. He isn't related to me and the fact that you think that its ok for me to move MY family's planned day at last minute for your schedule is not only rude but reeks of your entitlement. No wonder no one stands you.

I hate the fact that my DH doesn't even try to understand my issue with my parents constantly enabling my single parent sibling. Yes I know and am glad that I get to stay at home with my children but I think it's wrong to say that because I stay at home and have a supportive DH I don't 'deserve' help or a break or even to gripe once in a while. It really gets to me that according to my parents standards my sister made a lot of bad decisions but they constantly help her so much that my kids are missing out on their grandparents yet I did things how we were raised and I get whatever is left.

My cousin and her DH just adopted 3 little girls they have been fostering for several years. A couple weeks ago they began fostering a little boy and will adopt him soon too. They are all biological siblings from a mother that has had had 10 children thus far, and is currently pregnant again. As soon as she has a new baby CPS takes the baby. She's a drug addict (as well as bio dad). It's this kind of thing that ticks me off. Cousin and her DH are wonderful people that tried to have their own kids but couldn't, while this woman pops them out like a gumball machine and doesn't care for them.

my mom is getting older, and her health is failing, but it's not like she's on her death bed - I mentioned we might be moving out of state and she's in a panic because I won't be here to "help" her. I'm 40 yrs old, I should be able to move where/when ever I want without my mother's input or permission!!!! SICK of putting my life and desires/dreams on hold for her, I've always had to. 3 other siblings live in this town - go make your other kids take care of you mom, I've done it for TWENTY years!

I'm so glad DH is an only child, and that his mother lives hundreds of miles away. There is no way I would want to spend my time catering to her wants and needs. And no way I would deal with rude, needy, demanding siblings, etc.