Being a parent is a hard task requiring a lot of responsibility. So no one can understand a parent better than another parent. Keeping good relationships with other parents is important in order to set a good example for your kids and this way make sure that they’ll have friends that will treat them right. However, in life, there are situations where keeping a good relationship with someone becomes hard because of their behavior. At least that’s what happened to Reddit user @emu_party7894, who is a mom to her 10-year-old son and who encountered a careless parent she decided not to deal with any longer.

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The woman decided to share her story to find out if she was right to tell the truth to her son’s friend’s mom. The woman revealed that before her son turned 10, she used to invite his friend James, who also was his classmate. The kid, who behaved very well, had a mom who actually became the issue. The woman recalled her son’s previous birthday when James was invited along with 3 other friends. On the invite, the narrator wrote that all kids should be picked up by 11 AM the next day because the family had plans to visit their relatives.

One Reddit user decided to share a situation after which she decided not to invite one of her kid’s friends anymore

To people’s surprise, the problem wasn’t the kid’s behavior but rather his mom’s

The narrator revealed that his mom kept failing to pick him up on time, together ruining their family’s plans

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After the birthday party, the next day, all kids were picked up by the exact hour—the only kid that was left was James. At first, Reddit user wasn’t thinking anything bad, just assumed that his mother was on the way, but was late because she was running some errands. At 11:30AM, the woman texted James’ mom to remind her that she needed to pick up her son as they were about to leave the house themselves. And indeed, the woman replied that she was already on her way.

Even though the woman was constantly reminded to take her kid, she only showed up when it was threatened to call the police

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12:30 rolled around and James was still at the family’s house. The narrator once again reached out to the mom as they had to hurry up themselves. She got a reply saying that she was out for lunch and would come to pick her son as soon as possible. The Reddit user continued to ask the mom to come and take her kid until 4PM came and the narrator’s husband had already left with the kids to go and see their relatives. This is when the woman called James’ mom and told her that if she didn’t get there in the next 30 minutes, she would call the police to let them know that there was “an abandoned child” at their house. Her last try to contact the mother resulted in her actually showing up and taking her kid. The woman apologized, but it was the last straw. From that day, the narrator decided not to invite the boy to their parties because of his mom’s behavior.

This year, her kid was not invited to the party and after finding out why, the mother got really upset

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So this year, when the Reddit user’s son turned 10, James was not invited to the celebration and soon his mom found out about this. She wanted to know why her son was not invited, so she asked this and the woman told the whole truth about how she didn’t want to invite her kid because it ended up ruining their plans for the next day, as she couldn’t come on time. This resulted in James’ mom being upset and blocking the narrator from social media and her contacts.

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The woman wanted to know if she was right to tell the truth and a lot of people online were on her side. They all agreed that James’ mom was looking at their family as babysitters and didn’t take into account that they have plans of their own. It was agreed that the woman had problems with time management as it turned out later, her husband never failed to pick their kids up on time.

What do you think about this situation? Have you ever experienced something similar? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!

People online supported the narrator as it was quite clear that the mother used their family as a babysitter

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