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Parents defend taking their kids out of school for family vacations: 'Booking flights 4 days later to match their school's vacation was going to cost me $7,000 more'

Emmy Pratt

Parents ask college-aged kid to take care of their farm animals while they're on 10-day vacation despite previously inviting them on the trip: 'I'm trying to set boundaries and do what's best for me'

JR Atkinson

32-year-old man berates his parents for having him when they were 44 and never giving him a sibling: 'He’s a spoiled brat who doesn’t work and lives with his girlfriend'

Emmy Pratt

Parents spend every cent of 23-year-old daughter's $1400 graduation gift from her grandmother, refuse to give it back to her: 'Your father committed breach of trust'

JR Atkinson

Parents kick 16-year-old son out of their home, wait 4 days to find him and bring him back: 'They abandoned me when I needed them the most'

Emmy Pratt

20+ Poignant Parenting Posts That Hit Home This Week

Ely Bulnes

Grandparents refuse to let their 3-year-old grandson take his Christmas and Birthday gifts home with him: 'They paid for it, it's theirs, they want him to have it at their home.'

Emmy Pratt

'My kids want to ride your horses': Entitled dad wanders next door and demands a cowgirl let his 5 and 7-year-old daughters ride her ex-racehorse, when the horse owner refuses, dad throws a fit

Jesse Kessenheimer

Former homeschooler begs parents not to homeschool their kids: 'If you think you'll be a good teacher, you're wrong'

Remy Millisky

28-year-old exposes her parents' favoritism by hiding her job promotion from them so they never have a chance to make it about the Golden Child older sibling: 'Oh, your brother could afford a house at your age'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Father gets called out for avoiding kids by camping out in his car every day: 'My dad wasn't just busy... he was avoiding us'

Remy Millisky

Wife safeguards her home from a freeloading 26-year-old brother-in-law, then her husband insists otherwise, so she leaves him in charge of babysitting the guests: 'He's responsible for cleaning, meals, entertainment, etc.'

Jesse Kessenheimer

16 and 18-year-old turn against Dad's new wife when she threatens to end the co-operative coparenting rhythm between their bioparents:

Jesse Kessenheimer

Stay-at-home dad refuses to homeschool his 6-year-old daughter because she's failing 1st grade math, despite his wife's insistence: 'I want her to have a “normal” childhood'

Emmy Pratt

Mom leaves 9-year-old daughter's friend at school despite promising her dad she'd take her home, dad refuses to drive the daughter anywhere ever again: ‘She had to walk home while it was pouring rain’

Bar Mor Hazut

Dad pesters his half-unconscious wife with a 104-degree fever, asking her how to get their 4 kids ready for bed: 'I just snapped and told him to figure it out on his own'

Emmy Pratt