u/Double-Talk-2783

My sister and I are both in our late 20s. I have custody of our nephew (his mother is out of the picture). He recently turned 15 and had his birthday party at an indoor playground. Some people probably picture those soft play areas for small children but this one is pretty big and it has arcade machines, trampolines, a soccer and volleyball field, climbing walls and everything. It's also for kids up to 16.

My sister wasn't present for his last two birthdays due to her work so he was happy she'd be coming. When we sent her the invitation she said we can't possibly pick a place for little kids. I told her it's for older kids too and that all his friends that we invited are happy to go there. She asked why we can't celebrate at a restaurant or by the beach. I told her it's not her birthday so she doesn't get to decide and that he would find those places boring. Her response was "well, I find this boring, he needs to grow up".

She did show up at the party but kept complaining and trying to order alcoholic drinks. Obviously they don't serve alcohol at a place like this and I could tell the waiter was getting awkward. She said we should celebrate like we celebrated her 15th birthday (our father took her to a club and let his middle aged buddies sell her weed) and that I'm babying our nephew. This really pissed me off but I just let it be.

Eventually she left before we even handed out our presents and cut the cake because she was "bored". None of us other adults had a problem. We talked and played pool or table tennis. I think you should be able to stay at a kid's birthday party for a few hours without alcohol or adult entertainment.

Her birthday is next week. I told her I'm not coming because I don't drink and it will be boring for me. I usually attend her birthdays even if they're not really my thing because she's family, but she clearly isn't willing to do the same.

Now my mother called me saying I'm being unfair to my sister and that she's simply worried I'm not toughening our nephew up enough. I don't even really let my mother see him much because she always tries to give him alcohol. Of course she would take my sister's side. Honestly I don't feel like they're in the right here.

I need recs for anything that's 5 volumes or less and has an English paperback release

I need recs for anything that's 5 volumes or less and has an English paperback release

I'm the teacher of a 15 year old boy and I've been giving him a lot of books lately, but after letting him read half my bookshelf I'm out of ideas. He is very advanced in reading and writing. I give him university materials in class. He wants to be a writer and I'm trying to support him by helping him learn through reading more. He doesn't read YA at all because it's too easy for him.

I'd be happy about any adult book recs that don't have any content inappropriate for his age, especially overly sexual content. The genre doesn't matter.

My nephew turns 15 in a couple of days. Usually my brother, sister and I put together money and then use it to check everything he wants off his list. He only asked for legos, a specific beyblade and manga and we got him those, but with the remaining money my brother and I picked a few more items we knew he would want. He just said he wants something fun so he didn't specify a lot of items on his list.

My sister however kept saying that the stuff we picked is "too childish" and that we should rather get him clothes or things like a water bottle, school supplies, electronics etc because he's too old for toys. I know very well my nephew doesn't want any of those things. The things my brother and I chose aren't for small children. It was some kind of robot you can put together for ages 10-16, a drone, some nerf guns and the Legos were also rated 14+ or so. If he had asked us for a new phone or clothes we would have gotten those. But if he wants toys we will get him that.

She kept trying to argue and telling us that we need to shop for a teenager and not a little kid, apparently completely ignoring that our nephew is the one who decides what he likes and that we didn't decide it for him. Eventually I took her money out of the share and gave it back to her and said that we're buying the things without her, to which she got really angry and yelled at me in the store about how we're excluding her and not taking into account anything she says. I don't think we need to take into account her idea of what a 15 year old boy would like when she's not the kid we're shopping for. I'm not going to make my nephew feel like it's wrong to enjoy his childhood by getting him more "mature" things he didn't even ask for.

I (27m) took my nephew (15m) swimming at the public pool. We ran into an old friend of my sister (the kid's mother). He is in his early to mid 30s like her. From what I know they lost contact a while ago.

Before leaving I was waiting outside for my nephew to get dressed in the changing rooms and suddenly he comes running out to me. He told me that the man from earlier had followed him into the changing room and then repeatedly asked him to let him watch as he changes. Of course my nephew declined and the guy got angry and tried to literally tear his swim trunks down and also grabbed his crotch. That's when he ran away from the creep.

I went back in to look for the guy but he was already gone. I called the police and also my sister. We told the police exactly what happened and they checked the camera at the exit, but it only captured the top of the man's head and there wasn't much to work with. My sister took about 2 hours to get there even though she lives 20 minutes away, which already irked me a bit. Then once she was there she acted like the whole thing is no big deal and said that we should "drop it" to the police. I told her to give them the guy's full name (I only know his first name) and tell them where he lived when they were in contact, but she refused and made very lame excuses. She said she didn't know his last name and that he never took her to his place and she doesn't know the address, only that it was here in the city. As far as I'm concerned that's complete bullshit. She's been friends with him all throughout her last year of highschool, university and even a few years after that. There is no way she doesn't know his last name or where he lived. Especially because she would stay at his house, and I know that. I argued back and forth with her but she kept playing dumb and brushing the thing off. I called our parents and asked them if they still remembered more information about him but they didn't.

I'm extremely pissed at my sister and I don't get why she would protect some pedophile who touched her own child. I could tell how uncomfortable my nephew was with the way she acted. She said that her old friend isn't "that kind of guy" and that her son must be exaggerating the situation. Before we all left I asked if he could stay with me for the night but she said no, he has school tomorrow. At that point she seemed really annoyed and even angry with me for pressing her so much about that guy. I've never seen her act like this and it seriously ruined my perception of her.

Edit: I checked my nephews TikTok account where he sometimes posts videos of him and his friends doing tricks on his trampoline or playing in his pool. The kids are shirtless in most of the videos and I've seen a couple of odd comments, but one account commented under nearly every single post. Very disgusting remarks. Account name is the first name of my sister's old friend and what may very well be his birth year. My nephew told me that he blocked someone with a similar profile before, but afterwards this new account started commenting and he ignored it. The account is following my sister's account and she's following back. My husband went through the guy's other followers and eventually found someone's Facebook page that has the guy linked in a post with his full name. We will be giving that information to the police. Now they'll be able to find him.

My sister herself has left a couple of comments on my nephew's videos and I would bet she saw her friend's very explicit and inappropriate comments on her child's body. My nephew said to me that he told her about this account popping up after he blocked the first one and she told him to just ignore it because "there will simply always be creeps online". I'm so disgusted with her and I'll try everything to make him come live with me instead.

As a young boy from the ages of 12-15 I was sex trafficked by an adult relative. It started with just him and eventually he would invite people over who would pay him to abuse me. When I was 12-13 it was mainly the same 3 or 4 men. At 14 I was away for almost the whole year due to health reasons, but when I returned home at 15 this relative had found a way to make even more money off me, and from then on it was more than just the same 3 or 4 people. Sometimes I "agreed" to it and sometimes he would have to take me with him forcefully.

I don't remember much from when I was 12 and 13 because I was high for the most part, but from the later time period I have very clear memories so my answers will mainly be based on that.

I (27m) have been with my now husband (also 27m) since we were 7 years old. Or rather that's when we "officially" started dating. I have actually had a crush on him since we were preschool aged. Our parents used to be friends before we were born, and we met for playdates since we were toddlers.

We have never broken up or taken a relationship break or been with another person.

I (27m) have been with my now husband (also 27m) since we were 7 years old. Or rather that's when we "officially" started dating. I have actually had a crush on him since we were preschool aged. Our parents used to be friends before we were born, and we met for playdates since we were toddlers.

We have never broken up or taken a relationship break or been with another person. I know this is pretty unusual so AMA.

I just saw a post on tiktok that showed a 15 year old boy's bedroom and there was a spiderman print on his blanket. I'm not even joking, hundreds of people went off about it in the comments. Did I miss something? Isn't spider man for boys around that age? Sure, you see it on little kid's clothes all the time but I don't think the actual comics/movies are intended for 4 year olds. And either way, most spider man fans I've seen are probably grown men and that's just as fine. Sometimes I can't believe my eyes on the Internet. People going crazy over some kid having a spider man blanket is really another level of strange. I didn't even know that sort of thing was considered too childish nowadays. When I was 15 I was playing with beyblades lol. That's a child.