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Kathleen Johns

Trust, once broken in parenting, is hard to rebuild

My child just had a common cold—slight fever, nothing alarming. I told my mom clearly: let's wait and observe before jumping into meds. But she’s always treated a fever like an emergency. A relative told her that aminopyrine works fast to bring it down, so she secretly gave it to my child behind my back. I only found out because I saw the empty medicine box. I was stunned—furious doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt. I immediately asked her to move out and hired a nanny instead. I couldn't accept that kind of overstep, especially when it came to my child's health. It’s been years. My kid’s grown up fine. But to this day, I regret ever letting my mom take care of my child alone. That decision changed our relationship forever. Have you ever faced a family boundary that got crossed? How did you deal with it? #ParentingBoundaries #FamilyConflicts #ChildCareDecisions #HardChoices #LessonsLearned

Trust, once broken in parenting, is hard to rebuild
lawrencehowell

Auto-pay isn't always a set-it-and-forget-it thing... learned that the hard way.

In December, we found out the scary way why you should never let your insurance run out. We thought we were good—we were on auto-pay. But it turned out that after updating our account info, their system didn't automatically restart the payments. We had no idea. They said they sent letters and emails, but somehow we missed every single one. We ended up uninsured for a whole month without realizing it. 😬 Thankfully, Geico was super chill and just let us renew without tacking anything extra onto our bill. I’m seriously grateful, because a lapse can mess up your record badly. It wasn’t really all their fault or all ours—just a weird system quirk. Still, I learned a huge lesson: double-check your insurance payments, especially after making any changes! Has anything like this ever happened to you? #InsuranceTips #StayCovered #AutoPayProblems #DrivingLife #LessonsLearned

Auto-pay isn't always a set-it-and-forget-it thing... learned that the hard way.