she's mad she got finessed for a 40k pool by a 12 y.o.

This lady is speed-running 'my kids haven't spoken to me in 10 years' vibes

There's a reason kids aren't legally allowed to get into contracts, they don't understand the ramifications. Parent was an idiot for even thinking this was reasonable. At 12, it's "hey, we'll get the pool, but you need to do some upkeep on it if you want it, a monthly pool cleaning will need to be part of your chores", or some shit like that. Teaches them discipline, responsibility, and that if they work hard they can have cool stuff like pools.

2:52 some commenter said "Fannie Mae Rated that an AAA+ loan in 2008" and I think that was a very underrated joke

parents who use the "food and shelter" bit as an excuse to get whatever they want better not complain when they get put in a nursing home as soon as possible (it's food and shelter)

ngl she is actually learning the real morals here by finessing her mom she on that grind 💯

>"It's not about finances - it's about morals." >proceeds to list three financial complaints as justification for her behavior

Threatening to take away the ability to work for not wanting to be saddled with an absurd debt forced on her at a time where legally she's in the clear for real actual contracts because she was a minor

Incredibly insane. One... she doesn't keep the pool. You keep it. So you're forcing your child to work to pay for YOUR pool. It doesn't matter if you don't swim... it increases your house value. Even if she was fine with the deal you'd still be the asshole. Do you know how hard it is for someone with a normal job to save up $40k? So is she not supposed to go to college so she can work off the pool cost? She basically wanted her child to be an indentured servant.

Redditors think South Park's take on the Human Centipede was a perfectly wholesome story of people not reading contracts and being bound by them.

the right thing to do would be to tell her "no, we're not getting a pool, we will pay for a membership to the YMCA" or something. this is extorting a 12-year old

Oh, the baby i made is living in my house... ██████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██

NL going off on parents surprised they have to raise the kids they created was good stuff

I had no concept of money or the real world when I was twelve. I thought that I’d be rich with a house and kids by 25. I’m 26 and I live in a studio apartment the size of a tuna can.

If a redditor says it’s “about the principal” to justify their shitty actions one more time, im gonna morb. All of Reddit gaslighting a kid into thinking he’s an asshole over borrowing $2 from his sister to top the driver and immediately repaying still lives rent free in my head

"She acts a little crazy" truly mad moon was with us all along

Just buy an above ground pool holy crap.

Selling half a pool to a 12-year-old kid for $40,000 is a sigma move.

This is exactly why there is an age limit for things like consenting to a relationship, drinking alcohol, driving, and voting among a ton of other things. How can a kid be expected to make such a consequential decision when they haven’t even had a chance to become independent enough to be understand the weight of a 20k debt?

This house is the parents property, this would be like my landlord expecting me to cover half the cost of renovations to my apartment.

Obviously she's not gonna pay you back, that's a horrible deal. Why would she be handing over half the cost when she gets none of the value? She actually knows that the house is going to go up in property value and that she's never going to see a cent of that money, thus having her investment essentially blown away. Smart girl. Clever. The mom should press her harder, that'll get her to pay up.

The girl should have claimed equity in the house, and sold it back to her parents after it appreciated in value. She could have asked them for $25k, and then paid them back the original $20k.

When youtube man responds with incredulity to people making their children feel bad for existing and you have an epiphany that maybe your family wasn't normal.

Didn’t the evil principle do this exact shit to the nice teacher in Matilda? Parents out here copying movie villains for parenting advice

Every single person in my life is calling me a piece of shit but I don’t care lol

Having already watched this, its so funny to me that it starts with “uphold her end of the deal”

Aita for taking to court my 10 year old child for not doing the dishes ?

You reckon the mom understands the difference between 12 and 16 is literally a quarter of her daughter's lifetime, of which the first quarter between 0-4 is basically all forgotten for her?

this is literally how the 2008 housing market crashed.

She made a deal with someone who couldn't legally consent and is now acting like it's binding. This is not teaching her anything, making 12 year olds pay back loans does not exist

Sweet, good on her. Giving a 12 year old $20,000 of debt towards your own property is a great buisness idea. I'm going to have multiple children and save every receipt and expense and add on a 24% compounding interest rate! By the time they're an adult they'll practically owe me a millions bucks each, suckers! 😂 Retirement here I come!!!

I mean I understand the point of tring to make your child hold up their promises but getting them into thousands of dollars of debt at the age of 12 isn't the way to do it man. Plus the comment at the end about paying for their stuff is just stupid af lmao. Trying to teach your child about consequences of their actions but the person himself isn't even okay with the consequences of having a child

AITA My 12 year old isn't paying her half of the rent

Mfs allergic to inflatable pools I guess. "Let me just drop $40k on a pool even though me and my husband don't swim because my 12 year old is slightly jealous of her friend's pool"

classic reddit libertarian can’t tell the difference between contract law and morality, argues legal age of consent should be lowered to 12

4:40 @Pedr_: you could sucker your toddler into compound interest and safeguard your retirement rn +2

Child- *turns 18, moves out, goes no contact* Mom-I don't understand why my child won't talk to me anymore.

"It's about teaching my young daughter the right morals to live with" The morals of "Do you like dangley keys, sweetie? Dangle dangle! If you pay me 50.000 dollars when you're grown up, you get to play with the keeeeeeeeeeeys!". She straight up tried to ruin her daughter's prom party no less, over an agreement she herself never stated had a deadline.

It destroys me when he doesnt read the comments for these. I need to see the insane takes and the YTA smackdowns

Plenty of better ways to go about teaching your kids the importance of money. IE: If they want something, give it to them but have them help you around the house or something to pay it off.

I must say I love this channel

Sanest rich parent

I'm freaking pogging right now

1. Mentions to your child how cool and *expensive* it would be a pool 2. Make they sign a contract 3. They grow up while covered in debts already ??? 4. Profit

"I couldnt say no to my spoiled ass kid and now im mad about the consequences."

expecting a 16 year old to immediately pay off 20k is so fucking insane

That was the best one from that React Court

She's learning how to max her credit and avoid debt collectors

i am so obsessed with this vid

Just have her lease the pool for the time that she's in it and have that go towards paying for it. Whatever contracts she doesn't or does have for phones or cars are separate if you're going to be money pilled at least do it properly.With all the extra property generations of yore have you'd figure understanding this transaction wouldn't be a problem.

My only consolation is that this story is likely made up for ragebait....but I am also deeply disturbed when I think there are absolutely people out there who have done something similar to this somewhere in the world and some point in time.

EDIT: "Hello Reddit, my daughter turned 18 and I demanded she start an OnlyFans to pay back her debt to me or I would disown her. She killed herself. Am I the asshole?" EDIT: "Thank you for the gold kind strangers."

Hey Reddit literally everyone in my life is telling me I'm insane can you tell me I'm not

"For me this isn't even about money - it's about teaching my young daughter the right morals to live life with." Like fucking scamming a twelve year old?

The end reminds me of a great quote from legend of the galactic heroes: "Children are supposed to live by leeching off their parents" -Yang Wen-li

my dads the mf who will have a kid and then use it against them but in a different way. yeah he'll do the "i never let you go hungry or without a roof" bit but also he believed children chose their parents before birth so whenever we were fighting he would pull that shit on me and also when I got frustrated with him he always threw "Well you chose me as your parent so live with it" pissed me the fuck off

How to estrange your children and potentially the rest of your family.

Bruh, this is the kind if thing I would tell my kid AS A JOKE 😂😂😂😂 "Ok, we'll build you a pool, but you gotta pay us back when you're a millionaire 😉"

I think it would be reasonable to try and establish the enormous scope of the request to the 12 year old by comparing how many dolls or games or dresses it would take to pay for a whole pool. Or talking about how many days it would take her parents to make that money if they didn’t have to eat or live in a house. Telling the kid it would take 8 months of hard work just to get the money back might make sense. To enter a deal with them? No. The kid is twelve, you could sell them the moon they’d assume they would have it paid off by puberty. She didn’t understand the lesson so she learned nothing. Could have waited it out until she became obsessed with something else her friends were doing. Could have told her that Firemen wouldn’t allow you to make a pool at your house because of Thanksgiving and saved yourself some money.

My mom would totally do that to me, she is psycho. You can't expect a 12 year old to be responsible enough to sign a contract for 20k.

When I was 16, I wanted to invest in Amazon Stock, and tried to make a deal with my parents that I'd pay them back for it after I turned 18, but they refused because I was under 18, and they didn't want to force a child to obey a deal they made when they were under-aged. My parents to this day do wish they would have invested in Amazon back in the 90s though.

This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever

She expected her 16 year old daughter to pay off 20k on minimum wage? All she would be teaching her daughter is how evil debt slavery can be while simultaneously teaching her to never trust the wisdom of her loved ones I think 10% would have been more reasonable. But even that is a ton of money. Honestly this situation would be incredibly easy to predict, not sure how she didnt see this coming Personally i would have made her save up 1-4k to pay me back in one installment, then at the last moment tell her to just keep it and use it for her expenses or savings or college. Teach her about the dangers of making deals without the destruction of the familial bond and the childs bank account I also would have started her at 12 years old working off the money by doing chores. Let her use most of the money but also give her savings goals to achieve. That way she gets started with acquiring a good work ethic and financial sense at a young age, while also giving her some play money to feel rich among all the unemployed children. She could work and feel satisfaction in the reward, while also feeling satisfaction in the responsibility of saving up as her "account" size grows larger

That last bit reminds me of revenge of the sith

This was signed when she 3/4 through her life. She has no concept of the future! She barely has a past!

still not as predatory as college debt.

The daughter should bring on an assessor to revalue the house and then request the difference between the 20k she "ows" and the value of the house appreciating from the pool be added to her college fund

As a fellow new father, I think it's definitely a good idea to try to reason with your kids, you just can't expect it to actually work. You're not doing it for it to work, you're doing it to train them up for it to work at some undefined point in the future.

They obviously care more about the money than the lesson, if they wanted to teach her responsibility and ensure she actually wanted the pool there were better ways to go about it

In the words of my cousin Vinny "You was serious about that?"

The Broad is off her gourd

1:45 😹

All the joy she'll have pays more than enough for it I mean come on

Reading contracts? 😂 I mean I ordered a train ticket and there were like 150 pages. I just trust in consumer protection laws. Where I live the fine print is not allowed to hide additional costs.

did they not know they can just buy a cheap 100-500 dollar pool at canadian tire/walmart/home depot??? its the parents fault for going for the expensive pool imo

I used to think my mother was a bad guilt tripper because whenever I hurt her feelings by being mad about something, she'd always remind me of how much she went through having me. My usual comeback because I was an angsty brat was 'I never ASKED to be here, you know! Just because I fought like crazy against billions of others to get in your egg doesn't mean I knew what I was getting myself into!'

God I miss react court

Sure it could be a good principle to teach. But not with that much money!

I knew a minor couldn't be held to a contract when I was 11 and getting "free" cds from Columbia house and BMI

Must the creation always rebel against their creator?

Redditors might as well be a separate hominid species at this point

By itself, there is nothing inherently wrong by expecting a promise to be kept. The issue comes with her own parenting. If she expected her own child to keep the promise, then she should have taught those values to her child. She only has herself to blame for not raising her child in the way she expects the child to act. Yes, children, like all humans, have their own minds and will. But efficient and effective parenting will always be influential on a child (so is bad parenting but thats a whole can of worms). The mother is the asshole.

A child/young teen can't even comprehend what 40K is

honeslty, it is crazy to make that deal with a 12 year old but to teach a 16 year old that leasson is pretty important. Just buy her the dress as a gift.

Libertarian mom of the year

It’s non enforceable you can’t make a legal binding contract with a child.

Dad who seems at least to have a few screws correctly fitted really should have checked with his wife if she's being serious. Maybe he didn't suspect this still. I can sympathize, it's completely insane. The daughter should sue her mom for being poorly raised in the future when she fucks up in something. There's a clear reliance on proper parenting in the parent child relationship now that she's verbally committed to this principle. Edit: Also the absurdity of this deal. The daughter foots HALF the cost of a *home improvement* on a property that they own. That's just not reasonable.

All the daughter had to do was double it and give it to the next child

I knew he was going to talk about this one

Straddling someone with debt is a pretty harsh way to teach someone financial lessons about debt, capitalism, and how to make money.

Me realizing my parents literally did this to me over a car.

Most sane redditor loan

My parents just made me feed and walk the dog i wanted as a child, and then "loaned" me $1500 to buy my first car. (It was a $4000 car.) Gonna be honest. I turned out alright. I mean, i sold crystal meth for a bit, but who didnt have a breaking bad phase? Im good with money, at least.

What happend to the good old time when you could just send your kid to the coal mines or factory to work. Paying for their food *yuk*

While I get the principle, it’s obviously absurd. Need to just settle for $1k or something

People posting these be like "I'm the opening where poop comes from..."

Making deals for "her" benefit? 😂what 6th grade girl is going to be like no mom actually I don't want a pool

1:01 Bald man finally realizes what r/AmItheAsshole is for!

This post "must* be a troll, right?

😂