Kids In Danger Puns

This happened a couple of weeks ago and I just found out about it today.

My oldest kid doesn’t like his grandmother but likes going shopping with her. That’s all she knows how to do anyways. And he goes shopping with her once or so a week when he isn’t in school.

Today, my SO came home with our only car (he has been out of town for work) and I was installing car seats. My oldest (7 next month) protested and said he doesn’t ride in a booster seat anymore. I thought it was a behavioral thing since he has been wanting to grow up a lot recently. So I explained he is still too small to legally ride without at least a booster seat. That’s when he dropped the bomb

When he goes with his grandmother, she just uses the seat belt. My son is only 4’2. He barely weighs 40 pounds, which means, he doesn’t even meet the bare minimum legal requirements in our state for no booster! Plus he is still only 6!

I’ve talked to her in the past and I’ve always made sure he knows how to ride safely.

The only relationship she has with her only grandchild is now severed. She won’t put my kid at risk because she doesn’t want to use the booster! I’m just so damn DONE.

Edited to add: she is officially on a very long timeout from my entire family

This happened a few years back.

My pet rat had had babies recently. I wasn't able to keep them all, so I turned to Craigslist to re home the babies. I got a message from a woman who at first, seemed nice enough. We chatted a bit over text, and I sent her a list of questions that I would ask all potential adopters.

One of the questions was "do you have any young children in your household?" The reason I asked this, is because I care about my pets, and I wanted the babies to go to good homes. Rats unfortunately are just not a good pet for very young children (<8 yrs). They are a bit fragile, and scare easily. Young kids just don't have the coordination or patience to be able to handle them well.

She replies that she does, in fact, have a 2 year old daughter, and that she also runs a day care with about 12 other 2-3 year olds at a time. She said that she was looking for a rat because her daughter's "pet mousy" had just recently ran away, and she was sad.

She then proceeds to tell me that her daughter is a total animal LOVER and sends me a picture of her basically strangling a poor chicken in a bear hug. She also assured me that she would supervise the daycare children when they handled the rat, "because sometimes they like to squeeze them too hard lol" (I personally didn't think that was funny).

After reading what she wrote, I immediately knew that she would not be a good fit for one of my rats. At first, I didn't respond at all. In hindsight, I suppose I should've just been straight up with her to begin with, but I have social anxiety and don't like confrontational situations. She ended up sending me several messages the next day asking about the rat and saying her daughter was really excited and wanted to know when they were gonna get it.

I end up telling her that I'm really sorry, but I have a policy of not adopting rats out to households with young children, and explain why a rat might not be the best choice for her situation.

She then went into a full on meltdown saying "shame on me" because now her daughter was crying because she had already told her she was getting a rat (that's my fault how..?), and that they had already checked the pet stores and they didn't have any rats, then telling me "what kind of person does this to a 2 year old?!?" She said I was a immature, selfish person, and that it was unfortunate that some people could treat children this way.

I didn't even respond to her after that. Not worth the stress. Thankfully I did en

Arizona here. I was out with my daughter last night and was contacted by my neighbor that the cops were at my doorstep. They left once they got word that a) my child was with me (safe and sound) and b) we have equal custody of our child with a set schedule. He was in the car watching everything the entire time knowing full well that she was with me and that his custody doesn't start until later this week. I left him after constant manipulation, mental, physical and financial abuse. He's put a tracker in my car (no proof) and constantly belittled and threatened me to take away my child over petty things I know have no grounds in court. Just last year we arranged a child custody agreement and finalized our divorce. After the tracker situation, I contacted a lawyer who advised me there was nothing we could do until a year has passed since the agreement. Family and friends have been advising me to file a restraining order because it has just been too much for me to handle at this time.

Other info: child is a minor, ex-husband is beginning to scare me.

So r/legaladivce what do I do to get this man off my back and be able to be with my daughter peacefully?

Hi, yes it's me, the girl from the post where everyone spammed "CPS" in the comments.

Today I'm here to talk about the day of St-Jean-Baptiste, in other words the yeehaw version of Canada Day, in other words Quebec Day.

On the 24th, I went to a local park where they organized activities such as inflatable games, mini-trains, zip lines and more to do some volunteering with my squadron. I was assigned to reception first but afterwards was transferred to the inflatable pirate ship module.

Me: crippling anxiety

Entitled Dad: a piece of shit

Kid: 2-year-old kiddo

Sgt A. Emond: no idea how she got the same qualification as me but hey her brother is an Adj 1

Cpl V. Cemschi: nice gal

Cdt 1 (or was it Cpl?) A. Normandin: why am I here, what's going on

Cdt 1 A. Gonzalez: :D

Random dude: filming the entire thing

Hotel: Trivago

Long story short, the module allowed 3-10 year olds with a few exceptions, since Emond, Gonzalez and Cemschi are inside to help the kids who have some trouble. Normandin and I were taking turns standing outside to check the line/sitting inside and say how many kids can come in.

Suddenly, this dad skips the whole line and poked his head inside the module while holding his son.

Entitled Dad: can I come in with my son? he can't walk on his own.

Normandin: uhhhh *turns to me, looking like she needs help*

Me: no sir, sorry, you cannot.

And oh boy, let me tell ya, we might be in Canada, this dad alone makes me feel like im a gay man in Texas.

Entitled Dad: WHAT? in a l l the other modules they allowed me in. how come yours don't?

Me: *stunned* uh, sir, I'm sorry but this concerns the safety of your son and the other kids as well. an adult is way too heavy for our module.

Entitled Dad: who you're working for?

Me: what?

Entitled Dad: WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE.

Me: Um, there is a guy in charge of the modules-

Entitled Dad: where is he?

Me: he checks the other modules also. you might see him in a red cap. there's... I think there was the words "module [brand]" on it. *turns to Normandin* right?

Normandin: y-yes.

At this point, all my other partners are completely in shock. They probably had no idea how to handle these type of people. All they could do is look around for someone in charge of the volunteers and hope to find help.

Entitled Dad: I can't believe it. why can't I just get in and help my son like in the other modules? And you, yeah go on, keep filming! that's right

Okay so some background info, I'm a first generation Canadian, so my parents are from Asia. They hold a lot of traditional values and so do my extended family. Some of those values I can agree with; however,many of them I don't. Mostly the focus on the males of the family tbh. This ingrained idea that being a male makes you superior is definitely something that sounds like I shouldn't be complaining about but it's not that simple. The first son of the family will carry the family name, everybody else outside of that doesn't matter as much.

In how this relates to the following,

my mom's parents are my only grand parents and her family goes like this.

Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt, Her, Uncle ( In order of age)

Since she and my aunt aren't boys, her little brother was the focus of my grandparent's attention. I mean like literally they don't even know my mom or aunts birthday cause they don't matter.

So my grandparents spoiled the fuck out of my uncle who still is an immature idiot, and no matter what they want their precious boy to be happy.Flash forward to Him having kids. His 2 boys were given the royal life. Grandparents had more boys to carry the family name so they chose to live with them. Uncle lied about having no money so my Grandparents used their pension to buy them everything, didn't want to punish them or deal with nagging so just bought them things etc.

So besides my aunt who had no valued opinion, no one could raise a child, or really anyone. The boys bugged my uncle for a dog and so he got a purebred German shepherd. The boys only played with the dog when they felt like it and If they didn't he basically stayed in his kennel in the garage alone.

If you don't know big dog natural behaviour, they are pack animals that if are not taught to behave outside of their canine instincts will be incredibly aggressive, territorial, and vicious. This dog had over grown his garage kennel and was kept in the backyard but since he thought it was his territory, he would snarl at people who would walk on the street near the house. And it got more aggressive as time went on.

I remember my mom telling me about how he got out twice. First time biting a neighbour kid when he was a younger pup so it wasn't that bad, and secondly attacking a guy on a bike where the police were called.

THIS IS WHEN SHIT HITS THE FAN

My grandmother, always made lunch for my cousins cause she perpetually thinks they are not fed enough. She has bad knees so after the finished makin

My husband and his ex-wife divorced four years ago and they have two children together. They share joint legal but she is considered the primary custodian and we get them at least 144 nights/year (however, we actually have them 50/50 right now). The last few months his ex has been dating a man that has been causing some issues because he doesn’t seem to like our kids. Some of his complaints are valid (they don’t like to listen to their mom) but most are just terrible (he thinks our son is unattractive). They have broken up multiple times in the last seven months and the kids have been told that it is their fault.

They recently broke up because his ex found out that when he took our daughter (10) for a drive two weeks ago that he drove 120mph on the highway. When the ex-wife confronted him about it he confessed and they broke up. Today our children told us that they are trying to work things out and they were told not to tell my husband

We obviously don’t want the kids around him because he is reckless and emotionally damaging. Is there anything we can do with the other info we have? We don’t have any evidence of him driving that fast with her, everything was discussed over the phone.

My younger sister goes to a fairly poor middle school here and rides the bus home alongside many other children, but their bus driver is constantly hitting things with their bus and damaging the bus with all the kids in it. As far as I know, they have hit the curb a couple times, blown out one of the doors and some windows (To my knowledge, they still haven't been replaced), and backed up into a tree. They completely wrecked another bus as well, and are using a "backup" bus to bring kids to school and home with. At one point, they even got stranded out in the cold for over an hour and a half, again, with all the children.

I don't really know much about legal stuff, but considering the fact that they have not faced ANY repercussions whatsoever relating to this, I'm pretty sure this is violating some laws. My mother and I are trying to figure out what exactly to do to deal with this situation but we really don't know. Any advice is appreciated.

I was at the store today, had checked out, and was heading for the exit when this maybe 2-year old kid starts running past me toward the door. I looked around, and there was no one coming after him, so I sped up behind him and reached out to grab his arm before he got outside. But I stopped right as I was about to get his sleeve because it occurred to me that it might look bad. I had just checked out without a child, and then was chasing after one and trying to grab him as he was running away from me. But I didn't want to let him go because if he got outside, that'd be really bad. I stood there awkwardly, panicking, for a moment, then thankfully a female cashier ran up and helped him. What's the right thing to do in a situation like that without giving off major stranger danger vibes?

im from germany hence the bad english

Prologe: So this happened like two years ago, i am a volenteer in the German federal Agency for technical relief short THW its komplicated to discribe so to make it easier lets say its like a firefighter but without the fire just technical stuff.

so the city i was stationed at hostes a big charity run through the city and the streets have to be closed down and opend between the different runs, so the city asked vor volenteeres to do that because we at the THW are proffesionals we said we would do that together with the police and other volenteeres so we drove there and got divided onto our street crossings. i was assigned to a very small junction. so the first run beginns he get the command to close the roads, after two or so minutes a car showed up on my street so i stood in the street blocking the driver(EP) roled down the window and i made my tipical saying

me: sir the road is closed due to a charity run pleas turn off your vehicle the road will be odend in 30 minutes.

EP 30 MINUTES I CANT WAIT THAT LONG I HAVE TO PICK UP MY CHILD

me: well in wich direction do you have to go? (i asked that because the runnders start like 500m in the left direktion so it was possible to drive before the start in the right direction an i could slip him through)

EP: to the left

me: sorry there is nothing i can do

Ep: but i raly have to go

Me: sorry i cant do that you would put others in great danger

ep had the expression as if he was deciding if he would just drive or stay

ep then just floored it and because he was making a left turn he drove over my foot with his back tires i stood there a bit in shock but i gethered myself and remembered the licence plate and wrote it down and made a radio call to my captian

the run did not start yet (thank god) an i was wearing heavy firefighters boots so i did not get injured

my captain said that he had given the police the infomation and they would do the rest

My (32f) sister (33f) had a serious drinking problem years ago. To the extent where she wasn't bringing her 7yo son to school till after 12pm, he ended up being held back a year, son was taking care of 2yo sister, she was in a full blown abusive relationship and she lost custody of her kids.

It's been 7 years since that shit show and shes since had 3 more children, ages 4, 3, and 2. She hasn't drank in years. After finally breaking free from 4-3-2's father shes been integrating herself into my life and my circle because she doesn't have any friends. I'm happy to include her but recently it's not going well.

In the past month there have been at least a half a dozen episodes where she is sneaking nips and driving with the kids, she fell and concussed herself, she threatens to "beat me up" in front of the kids who are now confused as if I'm some kind if threat to her, I've came home from work to find she left her kids with my SO, disappeared with the neighbor and came back falling down, puking drunk...I could go on.

So one of my 'best friends' (37f) is a high functioning alcoholic and she invited my sister to a picnic she was having in memory of a mutual friends baby who passed away a year prior from SIDS. I asked her to please ask my sister not to drink and she said no, she invited my sister specifically so that she could drink as there would be people to help with her kids and sister could sleep over. I had a bad feeling. Well, sister shows up at 1030pm WASTED. Makeup all over her face, stumbling...friend partys with her til3am...

I talked to friend and explained again that sister is just one of those people that cant drink. She makes poor choices that generally put her children in danger. Friend said bc sister was stuck in a bad relationship for so long, she needs to have fun now, she needs a break...

Friend invited sister to a campground this past weekend and was drinking with her and they had to drive drunk about 4 miles to get home.

So I'm done with 'friend' at this point, even on facebook...

My question is how to deal with my sister. I've tried talking to her sober and she pretends to listen and appreciate my concern but then she just goes back to drinking...family has talked to her but now she just avoids family interactions to avoid being told what to do.

She looks up to friend and they've been hanging heavy. I cant see anything good coming out of this.

I am scared to have kids. I am scared that my paranoia will fuck them up. I am also scared that I won't do enough to stop it from happening to them.