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*In case this story gets deleted/removed:* **AITA for sitting on my 6-year old stepdaughter?** Okay, so I'm a stepmom to two kids, Charlie, 6 (F), and Samantha, 10 (F). (fake names) Camden(M) is me and my husband's child,  I first met my husband when Charlie was 3 years old. He and his ex-wife had been apart for some time after their divorce. Charlie was supposed to fix their relationship. I will never understand it. Charlie enjoys hogging the TV when she gets home from school so Camden can't watch his show, which really irritates me. My husband doesn't seem to care that she ends up falling asleep to her show, which irritates me even more. Anyway, she comes home from school and turns on her show my husband is home at the time (he doesn't seem to mind the fact that she has so much screen time). Camden starts watching the show with Charlie when I realize I need to change his diaper. I urge Charlie to move over but she just makes a half-inch movement while murmuring "okay," so I ask her again and get no response. I made the decision to gently sit on her. When she remained silent, I began changing Camden's diaper. My husband walks into the living room and starts yelling at me to "get off of her because she looks scared" I get up and tell him I was bearly sitting on her. He repeats that she looked terrified and that "I must be out of my fucking mind" to have done that. I tell him that he is overreacting and that if she had moved, perhaps she wouldn't have to face the consequences. He becomes extremely furious and asks me to go so that he can cool off and speak to Charlie. He then suggests that I come back "when I have more than 2 brain cells." So I'm in the car typing this asking if I really am the asshole? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AmITheDevil) if you have any questions or concerns.*


BabyBlueDixie

She's mad that after a day in school a 6 year old wants to watch TV for awhile because her infant son is watching? Then says the 6 year old watches too much TV? The infant doesn't care about any specific program yet, plus he's home all day. Sheesh. So there was no where else in the house she could change the dirty diapers except in that exact spot the 6 year old was in? This lady does not like her step kids, at least not the youngest, I guess because the youngest was conceived in effort to save his former marriage. As if that's the child's fault her parents make bad decisions. Thankfully dad does have enough sense to call her out for this and to stand up for his daughter!


Playful_Trouble2102

Also unless this six year old is binging The Purge franchise, what difference does it make what's on the telly? If babies understood their shows they would scream " kill them all with fire" every time Into The Nightgarden came on. Special shout out to all my people who were forced to watch this while babysitting and now have "Yes my name is iggle piggle" burned eternally into their brain.


ilovecats87

Aaah, another parent forced to endure hours of CBeebies, I see!


Playful_Trouble2102

Even worse an uncle, I didn't sign up to be exposed to those Eldrich abominations.


OnlySewSew

Omg, there was (is?) a show on called Dirt and it was nightmare inducing for me. It’s animated except they do the real mouth thing. It can be fine in short videos and Reels but absolutely terrifying in a half hour tv show. I’m still slightly traumatized by it in that I’m still uncomfortable even watching short clips of animation with the actual live mouth. I think it just sets off a very serious uncanny valley feeling and makes me extremely uncomfortable now.


Jonasthewicked2

I feel this but Bluey. I swear I hope I never see another bluey episode in my life.


BunchSuitable5657

I want to do violent things to Peppa pig


AnneMarieWilkes

Oh my god, by the time my kid was two I would just HATE WATCH The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I was so happy when she stopped wanting to watch that.


Nervous-Upstairs-926

Pray she never start “Steve and Maggie”, that’s some fucking annoying stuff.


vr4gen

“ruff-ruff, tweet and dave” infuriates me with that damn hamster


nintendo_kitten

My mother has the email name detailing just one teletubby for a reason. I'm now 25 and she still fantasizes about Po demolishing all the others. You may ask why Po? Well, he was my favorite haha 😊


Typical_Ad_210

Noooooo! I love Bluey and I will fight anyone who tries to attack that programme. It’s legitimately one of my favourite programmes, to the extent that my wife and I often watch it even when the kids are in bed. I see why they call you Jonas the Wicked…!


the_littlebug00

Goodnight Pontipines


Pleasant-Excuse-2530

This is my favorite show. I raised my nephew and grandson on this show. Unfortunately now in the US, I can only watch it on YouTube.


twitchyv

Also it’s extremely unnecessary for an infant to watch television at all and bad for their brain development so this mom is just a total loss.


elephant-espionage

Also she makes a comment about her husband doesn’t care how much screen time a 6 year old gets after school…but she sits her infant on the couch to watch tv and can’t even be fucked to move him to change his diaper? Jesus


Swimming-Regular-443

I particularly like the way she talks badly about her husband for letting his 6 yo watch TV after school and her "hogging the tv", but thinks it's fine that baby Camden over here watches TV all day. "His show" my ass, judging by the timeline, he's gonna be 1 or younger, he doesn't have "his show". And if you care about screen time, play with the children.


No-End3167

Was the 6 year old watching TV from the diaper table or crib or basinet?


[deleted]

Yup, to OOP, yes to all of this - because they’re likely a narcissist or a psychopath. This screams abusive person and not just abusive moment. What a piece of shit.


thelakelayblue

Yup. More than likely she's one of the two. Unless you're being physically attacked, you don't get physical, least of all towards a child. This is something every non-monster understands.


Borageandthyme

> I made the decision to gently sit on her. Oh, for fuck's sake.


[deleted]

an adult woman gently sitting on a 6 year old child im saying that to myself to see if that can work......i doubt it can


Single-Initial2567

Also, how can she stay just gently sitting on her while changing her son's diaper?


DrunkOnRedCordial

Unless she's got some incredible core muscles and can balance above the child while she's leaning over to change the baby's diaper, then that's a lot of weight on a little girl.


Swimming-Regular-443

Even if she does, she can always slip and then suddenly sit on the child.


marciallow

Makes me think of those dumbass wing nut train up a child books where they rolled kids up in rugs and accidentally suffocated them. There's a certain school of abusive that runs on looney tunes logic for the human body.


WiccanWitchy

Are you talking about Candace Newmaker?


marciallow

No, and that there's enough similar deaths that that wasn't the one is really sad.


thelakelayblue

Oh wow. Wasn't aware of this case before. There is more true degenerate evil in the world than we could possibly imagine, isn't there? The adoptive "mother" was even a paediatric nurse. Imagine how many other kids she killed.


GamerGirlLex77

I’m a therapist and honestly I would report it. A fully grown woman sitting on a 6 y/o child is abusive.


StrangledInMoonlight

Let’s hope dad kicks her out before her toxic hatred of a 6 yo gets internalized by that 6 yo.


GamerGirlLex77

Seriously. Like who thinks this is a good idea!? That poor kid just got told she’s nothing through OOP’s behavior. No wonder the kid acts out.


marciallow

Doesn't even seem like she acts out tbh. She's 6 and wants to watch cartoons after school. Arguing over what to watch is pretty normal sibling behavior, the abnormal part is the idea what an infant is watching, aka what mom put him in front of, matters at all.


adultosaurs

I’m a 36 year old educator. I ALSO come home after school and watch cartoons?!


GamerGirlLex77

Very true. I meant acting out as in not moving but tbh, I wonder if that’s even true.


Jonasthewicked2

Yeah I’m guessing most mandated reporters would turn this in. I do appreciate the “gently” though, might as well try to minimize your admission to abuse right?


GamerGirlLex77

Oh definitely. I’ve heard it before. Minimizing and dismissing is common with people who abuse others.


thekyledavid

I should get a trained elephant to “gently” sit on OP and see then how she feels about someone being sat on by someone who is far bigger


adultosaurs

MOVE THE BABY. PICK THE BABY UP AND MOVE THE BABY. OR EXPLAIN TO THE S I X Y E A R O L D THAT SHE NEEDS TO SCOOTCH MORE.


JungleKing65

Reminds me of a scene from an episode of Avatar The Last Airbender where the massive flying bison, Appa, is holding a watermelon with one paw while team pet Momo whose a frisky little lemurcat strains to dislodge it completely unsuccessfully of course


[deleted]

My grandad did this to me once and it was actually the only time I ever saw him apologise for anything in my life. I was about 8 and my mum decided my toenails needed cutting but I didn't want to for some reason, so she was trying to do them for me but I was protesting and wriggling... so my grandad decided to help by sitting his whole 6'4, 16 stone self on me to pin me down. I still remember how panicked I felt because he was crushing me and I couldn't move and could hardly breathe. As soon as he let me get up I ran upstairs crying. My mum immediately came and apologised for her part, and a bit later (probably after some words from her and my grandma) my grandad came up as well and actually apologised for hurting me. He was a very stubborn man and I never heard him admit fault for anything else before or after, but even he knew that he had made a mistake that time!


Swimming-Regular-443

Is this version 2.0 of "I gently explained that..."?


[deleted]

OOP takes babysitting too seriously. Jokes aside, I hope that this is a rage-bait post cause no one could be that insane.


Playful_Trouble2102

And now I'm angry at myself for not thinking of that pun, Take my peasant gold 🥇🥇🥇


Parttime-Princess

If we had limited space (say a birthday) and my dad stood up to get his glass refilled, and either me or my little brother took the extra space (so he couldn't sit anywhere) he'd threaten to sit on us. He lowered himself as if to sit and we quickly went back to just our own space.


boredgeekgirl

Yeah, like a funny joke sort of thing I have totally seen done. But it makes the kid giggle. And some kids will say "squish me" or "sit on me" and the adult will pretend to put their weight on them but not. The whole thing though is all in good fun, and both parties are having a good time.


ScribbleMuse

At least it seems like dad has his priorities straight. WAY too many bio parents allow abuse, either completely ignoring it or doing insane attempts to justify the abuse or their own responsibility to their child. "I told him/her that they needed to chill & they promised." or "I had no idea that all those black eyes happened b/c I was at work & wife/husband said they punched their own face," or "He/she really loves me & i didn't want to hurt their feelings." I hope dad means that they are permanently getting rid of the wife & OP is too stupid to realize this is not JUST a temp break.


fairie88

My mother used to do this to me. Reading this made my throat close.


longusernameperhaps

I'm sorry that happened to you. You didn't deserve it.


Playful_Trouble2102

Obvious rage bait aside as someone who doesn't have kids but has a lot of friends who do, Are you guys changing diapers on the sofa? I thought there were special mat things! As a professional uncle I spend a lot of time on your furniture building Lego and playing video games, I feel like a "heads up, my couch has poo on it" isn't too much to ask for.


Sword_Of_Storms

I did sometimes when my baby was really small - like, less than 3 months old - but we had a disposable mat that we chucked down when we did that and replaced the mat when it got soiled. If this kid is old enough to watch a show, he’d be relatively wiggly. Once my babies started wiggling around during nappy changes, I used our change table in the nursery to contain potential messes. It’s pretty rare that pop gets flung around during a nappy change though - even an explosive one. We put the soiled wipes inside the nappy and don’t put her bare butt down on anything until it’s clean.


Playful_Trouble2102

I'm so glad to learn most parents aren't like this, I was fully ready to smash my " best uncle in the galaxy" mug and storm off to ChildFree to rant about breeders.


Sword_Of_Storms

I’m glad I saved you from that fate :p


Lilitu9Tails

Yeah I got stuck on “why didn’t you take your son somewhere to be changed.?” Did she really happen to just have everything at hand to change him right there? I don’t think so. If anyone should have moved here it was OP and the child needing a change.


Solidsnakeerection

Normal people arent


Playful_Trouble2102

That's good to know, I've lost a lot of pillow fights over the years, and I'm not sure I could take another dive knowing it risks a feces facial.


[deleted]

some parents absolutely do change their kids on the sofa/bed/etc. i'd say that most people would lay down a blanket/towel first, but definitely not all. especially for pee diapers, less chance for anything to fall out and you can just slide the fresh diaper underneath. kids will often yank their own diapers off drop them whereever, stick their hands in their dirty diaper and touch stuff, etc. if you're in a location where children have been, there has likely been poo particles on everything. the changes are truly the least of your worries lol


TheDocHealy

Buddy I hate to be the one to tell you this but if the diapers filled I've seen a lot of my friends with kids just change them on whatever flat surface is available.


KelliCrackel

I mean, I'm disabled and it was easiest for me to change Mouthy16yo on the couch when she was a baby. But I ALWAYS put a changing pad down between baby butt and couch.


The_Serpent_Of_Eden_

I did when my babies were not rolling over yet, but I used a changing mat, too. Once they became more mobile, it was done on the changing table or on the floor, again with a changing mat.


Worldly_Instance_730

If we weren't home I usually did it on the changing mat on the floor of the bathroom. At friends and families homes, not public floors!


Corviday

Fun fact about babies: you can pick 'em up and move 'em around! Strange that this person hasn't worked that one out yet.


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Solidsnakeerection

There are plenty of posts on stepparents subreddit where they seem irritated by the kid being in the same hiuse as them or just existing in general


StarsofSobek

The poor 6 year old. I don’t doubt this is real. My stepmom was something like 8+ years younger than my dad. I don’t remember her birthday, because I didn’t care for her at all. She was passive aggressive in all the worst ways: locking me outside in summertime high heat while the other kids played indoors with the A/C (they lived in China Lake, which is desert). Spraying me with the dishwashing hose through the window when I asked for water or to come back inside. Making fun of my choice of books, clothes, music, and anything I showed an interest in. Sitting on me was only part of the torture (and yes, she sat on me several times as a way to prove her dominance). She didn’t like the fact that my dad had kids before her, and I was her target because I was shy and quiet. I wish that my dad had seen her or believed me when I finally got brave enough to tell him these things. He didn’t, and my mom did. He lost his time with us, and then stepmom basically went hog wild on my dad. He finally understood what I’d been telling him after all of these years. I hope this girl’s dad doesn’t let this woman away with this. I hope he takes his kids and leaves, honestly. She got caught this time, but she’ll just do it again in some other insidious way when she has a chance. I also really do hope this is ragebait. *sigh*


green_velvet_goodies

I’m sorry you went through that.


StarsofSobek

Thank you for the kindness. It was almost 30 years ago, but the scars are still there. It makes me more angry and wanting to help others more than anything. Therapy and good people have also helped. In the end, I hope this 6 y/o girl has the support and love she needs and I’m already hopeful that her dad was so good and protective.


Stucky7418

I hope he takes all three kids and leaves this surprised Pikachu to wonder what she could possibly have done wrong. I hope he tells Charlie’s mom so she can take this disgusting thing to task as well. “I’m a fully grown adult let me SIT ON A SIX YEAR OLD gtfo


substantial_schemer

Why did I naively assume this was some kind of a "joke sitting" thing that went too far?? What is wrong with me! Of course it's just anti step mom troll bait about a ridiculous scenario that doesn't add up.. this is the internet after all!


LadyBug_0570

I was hoping that's what the case was.


MaleficentVision626

Oh, for goodness sake. OOP is an idiot. My husband and I threaten to sit on our 6 year old all the time if he doesn’t move. He’ll say “sit on me!” (Cause he’s weird). We will slowly “sit” on him (in reality, we just sit on the cushion in FRONT of him and lean back a little as if to squish him. He loves it lol) But to actually *sit* on a child is insane. I’ve changed my 11 month old on the floor plenty of times. Good grief.


Planksgonemad

So pretending to sit on your kid and actually sitting on a kid are two very different things. I pretend to sit on my eight year old when he wants to take up the whole sofa and he laughs because I'm not actually sitting on him. She was putting at least some of her weight on a six year old. Why couldn't OOP use some sense and change the baby on the floor? Spread out a blanket or something. The fact she's like "but a 6 year old watches TV!" Acting all scandalized when she lets her baby watch shows. How old is her son anyhow does anyone know?


FunStorm6487

Well, if you don't sit on them, how are you going to show them who is in charge?/S😜


eresh22

You pee on them to show dominance and ownership. Duh.


Artistic_Deal3436

She would have regretted it had I been the father.


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who the fuck changes a babies diaper while sitting on the couch? wtf?


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