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I know this may sound old fashion, but I do think penmanship is important. I am the sort who still enjoys penning letters to people who I haven't seen, or to businesses to thank them when my experiences were positive. Maybe I'm being silly, but I think a handwritten letter can be more impactful than something printed out or an email. Additionally, I think writing in this way encourages you to be more thoughtful, as you obviously can't just delete a mistake as easily as you can on a PC.

As such, I've become discouraged that my daughter (12) not only has some of the worst penmanship that I've ever seen, but also sees writing anything out by hand as absolute torture. She's blatantly of the mindset that there's no reason to bother when everything's done digitally. Recently, she had to compose an essay for class. Now the teacher is not requiring students to doing any writing by hand, of course, but I decided that I'd prefer my daughter start putting in some effort on improving her handwriting. I told her that regardless of what her teacher expected, I wanted her to handwrite out her essay for me. I also said that I expected it to neat and for her to focus on penmanship rather than speed.

Naturally, my daughter did not like this. She threw a tantrum, insisted I was abusing her, and cried in her room nonstop for nearly an hour. When my wife got my home, our daughter told her why she was upset, and my took her side, insisting that if the teacher wasn't requiring it, there was no need for the extra labor.

Now, in my opinion, as her father, I see it as just as much my job to educate her, if not more. I think it should be fine for me to task my child to improve herself. But, obviously, she is also my wife's child, and I don't want to be a hypocrite by acting as if my opinion should be more valid than her own.

AITA on this one?

Captain Hygiene posted:

Next parent of the year contender located

AITA for compelling my daughter to write out an essay by hand before typing it to hand in?

She considers this archaic skill to be completely torturous, and I'm drat well determined to make sure she continues to do so!

mailorder bees posted:

its just a wordfilter, you're allowed to say loving room if you log in

Captain Hygiene posted:

Next parent of the year contender located

AITA for compelling my daughter to write out an essay by hand before typing it to hand in?

She considers this archaic skill to be completely torturous, and I'm drat well determined to make sure she continues to do so!

FMguru posted:

Then as we’re all in the living room, we see through the big window a truck with a trailer pull up. The driver comes unto the door, turns out it’s a BRAND NEW car for my sister from my Dad. She’s crying and jumping around and hugging and kissing my Dad, everyone goes outside to look at the car. When this happens, I went out the back door, turned off my phone, and drove my 9 year old car all alone to the beach to be by myself.

Captain Hygiene posted:

Next parent of the year contender located

AITA for compelling my daughter to write out an essay by hand before typing it to hand in?

She considers this archaic skill to be completely torturous, and I'm drat well determined to make sure she continues to do so!

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We have a sitter for our three kids with the plan being that the sitter would stay with us until our youngest boy goes to middle school. Some how we got lucky and found Mike who has been our sitter for five years.

Our older sons are 13 and 15 so they don't really need a sitter. Our youngest, Jack, just turned 10 and is probably the most attached to Mike. Jack has ODD and ASD. He has good days and bad days but he never had a bad day with Mike. We had to literally show him videos of Jack's outbursts because he didn't believe Jack had them.

My wife and I recently divorced and things have been challenging. We are still learning how to operate as a family. My ex and I thought that we had a good relationship with Mike so imagine my surprise when he said he wasn't happy and he feels "spread out too thin." I asked what we could do to make it better and he said nothing. He said he has been flexible because we were but now he has to be more flexible and we are not. I offered him more money and he said no because he didn't want us to "resent" him.

He said he is willing to stay until the end of summer. I said I am formally rejecting your resignation. We cannot accept anything less than nine months. We think that Jack will then be old enough to not need a sitter and my ex and I can just figure something out since we are now WFH.

He said he can't do that. I said you're not letting the situation get better. Dude, we pay you $30 an hour. You owe us better.

Wicked Them Beats posted:

He also says he probably wouldn't have shown if he knew it was a dry wedding, so maybe just don't go to weddings for people you don't give a poo poo about?

Captain Hygiene posted:

Next parent of the year contender located

AITA for compelling my daughter to write out an essay by hand before typing it to hand in?

She considers this archaic skill to be completely torturous, and I'm drat well determined to make sure she continues to do so!

Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for telling our sitter that we won't accept a resignation if it's less than nine months notice?

I said I am formally rejecting your resignation. We cannot accept anything less than nine months.

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What does this man bring to your relationship?

OP posted:

He does our taxes, waters the plants and vacuums (or rather clears the floor and initiates the roomba).

I’ve told him we don’t need plants to survive, we need food to survive and that he is literally vacuuming by saying “Hey Google, start the vacuum” and says “you always discredit the things that I do do” wow as I’m typing this I realize I may have made a mistake.

DeeplyConcerned posted:

r/relationships: you always discredit the things that I do do

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My daughter Ines is in the 8th grade. I am a single parent who is barely getting by. We can’t afford the activities for the graduating class like trips to New York, dances, etc.

I told Ines this and she seems to understand that we just can’t afford it.

I got called in to talk to her English teacher over a paper she wrote last month. The prompt was “what I did on spring break.”

Ines spent it at home or tagging along with me to my job. But instead she wrote this ten page story about how she found this door in the office I clean that took her to the past.

She wrote a short fiction story instead of the paper her teacher wanted. She got a D.

Ines wanted me to convince the teacher to change her grade.

I told her that she can’t submit short stories instead of homework, so she deserves that poor grade. But Ines said that she doesn’t have anything to work with otherwise she hates English.

We are going back and forth. She has a C in English and I told her she is grounded until she gets her grades up.

Ines is upset and won’t speak to me. I had another meeting with a school counselor who suggests that I’m being too harsh on her, and to encourage her to write more. That’s not the problem.

My problem is that Ines doesn’t listen to me or her teachers and acts like she’s living in that dimension in her stories. That’s not how the real world works.

AITA?

mllaneza posted:

Mx. posted:

AITA because I won’t ask the teacher to change my daughter’s grade?

Vim Fuego posted:

I prefer r/relationships: wow as I’m typing this I realize I may have made a mistake.

mllaneza posted:

r/relationships: wow as I’m typing this I realize I may have made a mistake

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We're on vacation in Mexico and I went to the gym. He didn't go because he went earlier in the day. He said he's gonna go exchange some more money at the mall across the street and also buy some me some socks I needed for a tour tomorrow. I hadn't heard from him in a while so I called him. Multiple times. Probably 20 times over the span of 60-90 minutes. I started panicking because I found it unusual he wouldn't answer at all.

Finally, he returns my call and said he went for a walk on his own to "see the city." I became livid and asked him why he didn't bother to a) leave me a quick message and b) check his phone to see if I was trying to contact him. He said he was too scared that someone would steal his phone if he took it out to check. And I asked him he was too scared to take out his phone but wasn't too scared to walk the city by himself? I told him I don't want to talk to him for the remaining 3 days of the trip

DeeplyConcerned posted:

Hee hee hee... Ines sounds like an Australian saying anus

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

lol I am formally rejecting your resignation, vis a vis you are not released from servitude quid pro quo. Share this on your Facebook feed so that Facebook can't use your images without your permission!

DoubleNegative posted:

AITAH for being mad that my partner just "went for a walk" in Mexico without telling me?

Too scared to take out his phone, confident enough to exchange money and walk the streets alone? He's loving a local, right?

DoubleNegative posted:

AITAH for being mad that my partner just "went for a walk" in Mexico without telling me?

Too scared to take out his phone, confident enough to exchange money and walk the streets alone? He's loving a local, right?

BrigadierSensible posted:

Nah. My take is he wants to get away from his annoying/controling/clingy/whatever else she may be girlfriend, and took the opportunity to wander around in freedom.

RichardA posted:

The partner may just be concerned about someone grabbing a phone from their hand and running while, in the same area, feeling safe from a mugging.

Tarezax posted:

Let the daughter get into art and the handwriting problem will fix itself. This dad is probably a STEMlord though.

Mx. posted:

AITA because I won’t ask the teacher to change my daughter’s grade?

boofhead posted:

I feel like teachers should be more clear about the purpose of the exercise - it would have cost nothing to say "write about what you did during the summer break, and if you can't think of anything or had a bad break where nothing happened, imagine what an average kid your age might get up to. I don't want fantasy fiction or an itemised list, the point is to practise [such and such a skill]".

To be honest I don't get what the exact point of it is or why a fantasy creative writing submission would warrant such a poor score, it sounds like a filler task that the teacher is taking way too seriously (out of spite? arbitrarily hating this kid?) so I'm going to say probably they're an arsehole as well