rSlash - r/AITA He Punched My 11-month-old Baby!

Episode Date: August 8, 2026

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Welcome to R-slash-Am I the Butthole, where a kid punches O.P.'s 11-month-old daughter. Am I the butthole for taking away a toy from my wife's 3-year-old nephew after he punched my 11-year-old daughter twice? My wife's sister and her husband came from Korea for a 1-5-month visit together with her 3-year-old son and daughter. Their son is uncontrollable, does whatever he wants, and doesn't listen to his parents. When he does something wrong, they try to talk to him, but he ignores. them. He doesn't understand no and doesn't care if you're upset or have a tense voice. He just laughs. I think he just doesn't understand because he wasn't taught, but maybe there's more to it. I'm not sure yet. I can see how much effort they put into talking, but it doesn't work. I think boys need discipline

and an understanding of actions and consequences at this age. Otherwise, they'll go bananas. One day, my 11-month-old crawled to him, and I was looking to see what was going to happen, when no one was around except me. She sat in front of him, and all of a sudden, the three-year-old punched her in the face. To my surprise, instead of facing consequences, he got rewarded by his mom reading him a book upstairs. Of course, she explained that the baby is small and that it's bad to do that. This moment confirmed an older suspicion I had. The boy does not get disciplined, though some might say I don't know everything, and it's true that I don't.

But what I do know was that their reaction to this was wrong. Moving forward, the 3-year-old likes to play with this old toy kitchen that my 9-year-old has in the bedroom, and they decided to bring it down to the living room so that he could play. While he was playing, my 11-month-old crawled up to the kitchen and started to play too. This time, I visibly understood that he did not want to share it, and he punched her again. This time, I came over and took away the kitchen, saying, no more kitchen for you. He cried, of course, so they took him out to the playground to calm him down. My wife confronted me, visibly frustrated.

She said that he's just a boy and that I don't understand how to raise two siblings of the same age. Maybe I don't, I said, but he shouldn't have been rewarded for this behavior. Instead, he should have been disciplined. That is not your place, she said. I replied, this is exactly my place. This is my house, my kitchen, and this is the second time he punched my daughter. His parents don't discipline him and instead reward him for this behavior, so I did it. Everyone heard this.

I created an uncomfortable environment because I said it out loud, but at the same time, I think their boy should start facing consequences for misbehavior. I've never raised a boy, so I might be utterly wrong, and yet my inner voice tells me that there is some truth to what I said. A boy has got to face consequences. Yeah, the top post, from Beauty and Thorns, not the butthole, ask your wife why she's okay with her daughter being punched in the face and then being rewarded for that. Right? Why are people only concerned about the well-being of the three-year-old who's going around smacking people and not anyone else?

If anything, O.P., you didn't go far enough. If someone punched my daughter under my own roof, they're getting the hell out of my house. There's no, you're going to be a guest in my house and smack my daughter. Get the fuck out of my house, man. You are the only reasonable person in this story, O.P., well, also the 11-month-old, I guess, hasn't done anything wrong. But your wife, the 3-year-old, and the parents of the 3-year-old all suck balls. O.P., you get 0.5 buttholes. I'm giving everyone else, I'm giving everyone else 3 to 4 out of 5 buttholes. Am I the butthole for making my daughter pay back $6,000 for destroying her stepsister's purse? When my daughter was around 10, I remarried to her stepmom who had her own daughter who was 9. They got along for the most part, until recently.

In short, my daughter, Ash, is jealous. My stepdaughter, Emma, had recently reconnected with her grandparents on her father's side. The grandparents have money to burn and are retired. I want to point out that before they came into the picture, my daughter was the one to receive the nicer gifts of the two from her mom's side of the family. For example, there have been a few times that Ash went on vacations that my stepdaughter wasn't allowed to go to, or Ash got more expensive stuff. I can't stop my ex-wife from spoiling her or her family. So the issue is that Ash has been jealous of Emma recently because Emma's grandparents are giving her stuff. That stuff will sometimes be in our home.

I'm not going to ban Emma bringing gifts to our place that she lives at 50% of the time. One example is that Emma got the newest phone, and my daughter wanted her iPhone upgraded. I told her that we don't have the money at the moment, and she said that it was unfair that her step-sister got the newest phone. She wasn't very happy. We had a conversation, and I brought up the stuff that she's gotten, but Emma hasn't over the years. Ash is 16, and Emma is 15. Emma's grandparents got her a $6,000 purse for back to school. I don't get it, but Emma seems to really like the purse and she's using it. It's her first real purse. My daughter was jealous when she saw it because she knew the brand. Ash asked if she could borrow it and Emma told her no. They got into an argument

and I stopped it and reiterated that the purse was Emma's. Well, Ash decided to destroy the purse. She cut some of the leather and popped some of the seams. My wife's ex-husband was pissed and my wife replaced the purse with her own money. We really did. didn't have that much money to blow. I discussed it with my wife, and we're making Ash pay back the purse. We already took $4,000 that Ash earned this summer from her job and made it clear that her next paychecks she has to give us 50% until it's paid. Ash has been upset for some time, and she ran to her mom, who has had lots of things to say about this. She claims we're being too harsh. Okay, strong disagree with the ex-wife in this scenario. O.P. is being exactly the

appropriate level of harshness. She destroyed someone else's property, so it has to be restored. And putting the girl to work to take back that 6K is totally reasonable. She has to understand these lessons now. Otherwise, if OP just looks away and doesn't punish, then they have to punish Ash for this. Otherwise, there's a good chance that Ash is going to grow up to be an even worse person than she already is. OP, you get zero out of five buttholes. Ash gets three out of five. Am I the butthole for breaking up with my boyfriend, who's 33, over an unfunny prank. Okay, so I'm a 33-year-old woman, and I dated John, who's 33, about eight years ago. So we were 25. The relationship had lasted 10 months or so. A week ago was the first time I've seen John since, because we were both

at a friend's party who was celebrating that friend becoming a father. John got super drunk, and decided to tell anyone who would listen the story of how we broke up. After hearing it, mostly men were telling me I completely overreacted. Here's the story that started our breakup. John was staying at my place that night. I woke up and it was Saturday morning. I went downstairs to make a coffee. I heard him having a shower upstairs and he came down dressed and ready to go to work. I figured out that he got confused and thought that it was a work day. I was repeatedly asking him, so what day is it? Until he got a bit mad, looked at his smart watch and saw that it was Saturday. He was quite mad at me and said that it was a bad prank and that he'll pay me back. The next day,

we were apart and he texts me, we need to talk. I'm so sorry. I got another girl pregnant, to which I replied something along the lines of, this is your attempt of a payback prank, consider it failed. After that, John double, triple, and quadrupled down on it. He swore to everything he holds dear that it was true and even sent me a clearly fake ultrasound picture. I kept telling him, dude, I don't believe you. Stop. You're making this incredibly weird. He did not back down. After a full day of convincing me in vain, I was so weirded out that I told him, well, okay, if you're having a baby with a mystery

lady, then we need to break up. And he was like, ah ha ha ha ha ha, my prank worked. Boom, pranked. After this incident, I was too weirded out by him. We broke up a few days later with him being completely unwilling to acknowledge he took it too far and framed it as you just needed some more convincing to fall for it. Eight years later, he's clearly still heard about it because he was telling everyone and basically doing a poll on who was wrong. Some people were coming up to me telling me it was just a joke. So am I the butthole for breaking up with a guy over a bad prank? Yo, you're not married to the guy. You can break up with a guy for any reason, including no reason. You can just wake up one day and be like,

10 months in, not really feeling it. I'm out of this relationship. At least you have a, you know, somewhat understandable reason of a really dumb prank about cheating. Like, what's the bigger red flag here? The fact that O.P. dumped him over a lame prank. Or that this guy is still bitter about a 10-month relationship eight years later. Dude, move on, you're 33. Who cares?

John sounds like a loser, if I'm being honest. O.P., you get zed. Zero out of five buttholes, John gets 1.5 out of five. Am I the butthole for not letting my neighbors into my flat? About two weeks ago, my neighbor stopped me outside of my flat and started asking some weird questions. They initially asked if I could let them into my block. I asked why. They wanted to speak to the woman in the upstairs flat, that's me, to ask if they can access

the roof from my apartment. I said, no, they wouldn't be able to because the ceilings are like, 12 feet high. Why? They said that their son had bought a drone for his birthday and crashed it on its maiden voyage somewhere on the roof, and it hasn't fallen back down. I said that I would have a look myself on the balcony to see if I could spot it, but I couldn't. I had been on my way out to head to a work meeting and I arrived 15 minutes late because I had taken the time to look for the drone like they'd asked. Then yesterday I was walking home and the couple chased me down at a shop. The guy said, uh is it all right if i come into your flat to have a look for the drone i just can't get it out of my head i said no i'm not open to having people coming in and out of my flat i've had a look on the roof myself multiple times over various days from different windows and from my flat it's not visible on the roof they did not take it very well and tried to negotiate it'll only take two minutes they're quite aggressive with their approach and i have peter's

PTSD from living with domestic violence, so my home is a safe space. I don't feel inclined to let strangers in for any reason. There's a man who lives on the other side of me on the top floor, and they don't seem to be asking him for access to his flat. O.P., not your problem. Tell those doofuses to go buy a ladder. O.P., you get zero out of five buttholes. Am I the butthole for leaving my ex-girlfriend to pay rent that she can't afford? My ex is a 22-year-old woman. She and I broke up at the end of April. I let her take over the lease of my old place, and I left July 1st to get my own place once again. The moment we broke up and mentioned separate living arrangements, she was very adamant on taking over the lease. She didn't want to pay a new deposit on a place, and she still has all her stuff here and whatnot,

and it would have been a lot to move it. I made it clear that it's not smart for her to stay, as the rent price is about 65% of her income, and after doing the math, it would be very tight on her end. She'd have like $200 a month left over at best, versus for me, the rent was like 35% of my income, so I'd have well over $1,000 a month left over. I told her I would gladly help her find a cheaper place, like a basement or a studio, which would be around 35 to 45% of her income, but she refused. She claims a studio is too small to fit her stuff and her cat, and she refuses to live under a household and be controlled and whatnot. She also said she didn't want to do any roommate situation because she's had bad experiences in the past,

and she can't go back home because her family lives about three hours from the city in the middle of nowhere. Well, she has the place, and after making the first rent payment, she's already complaining that she'll most likely be living paycheck to paycheck because of this. And she's basically mad because apparently we should have just stayed living together and tried to reconcile the relationship. Obviously, this is fully her fault for choosing the more expensive option, right? I tried to help her and warn her, and she didn't listen. O.P., yeah, you did try to warn her. Unfortunately, no one wants to listen to advice from the person they just dumped or got dumped by, so that was kind of a pointless attempt. But she's learning an adult lesson.

O.P., you get zero out of five buttholes. Am I the butthole for not helping a student of mine after he stole my customer? I'm an artist who makes and teaches students how to make stained glass windows. One of my students found out that I was about to start a window for a couple that he knows through another friend and then convince the couple to drop me and go with him to make the window. I'd already drawn a one-fourth-sized sketch to see if it was something the customer wanted. And now my student expects me to draw it out full-sized and actually help him make it. It's too large to work on in class.

We've always had a maximum size limitation that this almost doubles. Working on a window this size would displace another student. Also, I'm supposed to store his window week to week so that he won't have to lug it back and forth from home since it's so large. Am I the butthole for telling him that it can't be worked on in the shop? And that I'm not drawing a full-size pattern for him. I told him he could have a copy of the sketch. Win or lose, I plan on showing him this post.

O.P., your student has no business stealing your customers, because, for one, the easy one is it's unethical. That was wrong of him. But for two, it sounds like this guy doesn't even have the capability to deliver without your help, which means you're still doing a lot of the work. You're just now not getting paid for it. So you can't even say that he really stole your job. He just stole your paycheck, because you still have to do part of the job, according to him. O.P, you get zero out of five bloodholes. I'm giving him two out of five. That was our slash am I the butthole. And if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.