Sometimes people need to live in the other person's shoes. If this kid was making fun of a child for being poor would people be mad if the mother took away all the luxury items the child had so they can get a feel of what it is like?

I'm a senior in high school, getting ready to start college. I'm not a mom, but I feel like it. My mom is my best friend, but she is an awful mother. I have 3 brothers and a sister, and I have been raising them since I was in first grade while she sleeps, smokes, and goes unnecessary places leaving me with them. On top of all that, she no longer has a job, so I'm stuck paying the bills. At 17. These children are my world and I am their mom more than she ever has been. We hardly ever see her, but whenever we have company, she's the perfect house wife (except she just got divorced). Makes me mad

Your child, my stepchild, is close to flunking the tenth grade and what's your brilliant idea, biomom? Send him on a two-week vacation with your mother right at the end of the semester, ensuring he won't finish his backlog of work. Terrific thinking! Is there a Munchausen-by-Proxy that doesn't involve physical harm? Because this just seems like perverted harmful action.

I'm not sure whether its because i suck as a mother, or if motherhood just sucks, but i find that being a parent head been nothing but heart break. No. No i would not do it again if i had a second go at this life.

I had no father, he chose his drug addiction over being a parent. My mother was on welfare while she went back to school to be able to support me and my sister. I'm the first woman EVER in my family to finish high school and go to college. I'm also the oldest woman to have her first child (24). I waited until I was married, we owned a home and were financially stable. My sister has chosen not to have children, and is independent. So not every sad child without a dad continues the cycle.

I think its sad that she has no father. I look at her picture, she's maybe 2 or 3. I guarantee she'll have the same fate as her mother. Pregnant by some random man before she's 20, & that child - no father, either. She won't have much of a future, either. What a difference having a father can make. But, most women don't think ahead, they just want that attention from a man at the moment. A quality future doesn't matter when a man is saying what you want to hear, legs spread fast & common sense is far from common. Poor little girl, I look at your photo & hope by some miracle you become smarter.

My mother absolutely hates that I have a small family. I have two DD's and have made plans so I do not have more. She had six children and I know it really gets to her that I won't just slap on a smile and tout the party line my siblings do about how amazing and fabulous it is being part of a big family. She can tell all her friends how great a big family is, but she is not happy that my children are a symbolic flip of the bird that make people question if it was so great why didn't your DD want that for herself? Sorry mom but I am not going to have more children so that you can look good.

Does anyone else feel like they have too much to do? I have so much to do every day, unbelievable. Working full time, house, kids, husband that travels a lot, cats, repairs, mail, school activities, after-school activities, and throw in calling my mother every other day. I just wonder what would happen if I just didn't get out of bed one day?

My 15 yr old son hates me. Literally. He thinks I am a terrible person and a bad mother. My heart is breaking.

Any time I express concern over any of my children's health issues (my second child has some mild ones) my mother always blows them off and just says 'there's nothing wrong they'll be fine.' Well no, that is not always the case. It was aggravating when you blew off all of our complaints/problems as kids even when one of us needed glasses, dental work, or had a broken bone. You might not think there is ever a reason to be concerned but I do. Especially after being treated like a hypochondriac my whole life. I hope you never need medical care in your old age because I won't help you.