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'My 8yo: I need nails to build...something': 30+ of the funniest parenting tweets of the week

JR Atkinson

In-laws insist on meeting newborn days after birth despite new mom's plea they have a week alone: 'Having people I’m not all that close with in my space while I’m recovering from childbirth seems like a nightmare to me'

JR Atkinson

17-year-old refuses to contribute $250 of his own savings to his younger brother's present despite parents' guilt trips and ultimatums: 'I used to love [my family] but we're basically strangers who live under the same roof'

Brad Dickson

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (December 5, 2025)

JR Atkinson

Family members expect stay-at-home parent to watch their newborn without asking them first: ‘You want me to give up my free time, but you won't?’

Lana DeGaetano

Child on airplane demands to use stranger's $1300 gaming device, his mother insists he play with it: 'The kid starts screaming and wakes up everyone'

JR Atkinson

Introverted wife kicks out husband and 2 kids every day for an hour so she can have 'me time,' husband thinks it's unreasonable: 'I just want to relax and watch TV without being sent out of my own house'

JR Atkinson

Husband on work trip in Boston demands wife wake up 3-year-old toddler at 11 PM so he can talk to her, wife refuses: 'No one wants to talk to my 3 year old at 11pm'

JR Atkinson

'My dad said it would be "just for two weeks". That was 4 months ago': Parents and older brother move their extra stuff into 29-year-old daughter's small house, call her 'selfish' for wanting it gone

JR Atkinson

Mom opens up a credit card in 20-year-old daughter's name 'as a birthday gift,' gets defensive when daughter calls her out: 'You didn't ruin a surprise gift, you outed that she's stolen your credit'

JR Atkinson

German parents force 18-year-old to use $4K of his birthday money on his drivers license, let his twin sister keep all $4,500 of her birthday money: 'They’ve always told me that they‘d pay for my driver's license for me.'

Emmy Pratt

Stepmother pesters 15-year-old stepson to 'go out more,' father wants her to mind her business regarding his son's life: 'But she won't drop the topic, because she thinks it's not "healthy" for him'

JR Atkinson

18-year-old drops hyphenated last name belonging to his stepfather, his mother tells him she's deeply ashamed of his decision: ‘It was forced on me’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I feel like I can't relax in my own home’: Entitled sister-in-law uses emergency key to rearrange woman's furniture while she's at work, woman calls out her strange behavior

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled 28-year-old brother gets miffed because his older sister only permits him to crash on her couch, claiming he deserves the privacy of her home office: 'There is no third room'

Jesse Kessenheimer

'Don’t correct him, it disrupts his autonomy': Gentle-parenting mom lets her 5 and 3-year-old destroy her sister's house, until the aunt finally snaps after her nephew pours orange juice on her carpet

Jesse Kessenheimer