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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (January 20, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old steals $50 of prescription beauty products from her sister-in-law, ends up with egregious skin irritations as a result: ‘She blamed me [but] I hadn’t expected her to dig through my drawers’

Jesse Kessenheimer

16-year old pressured by parents to give them his savings to support his younger siblings: 'My parents are bad with money'

Brad Dickson

Older sister refuses to give up her wedding dress for her spoiled younger sibling, then gets grilled by the family for ‘ruining’ the Golden Child’s dream: ‘I saved up for over two years to buy [this dress]’

Jesse Kessenheimer

15-year-old gets blamed and grounded for 12-year-old cousin's behavior while they were babysitting him: 'He lied that I had friends over'

Brad Dickson

Mom grounds 15-year-old daughter for 4 months and bans her from her cheerleading competition after she mocked 16-year-old classmate for having reading problems: 'You’ll also apologize to Zoey in front of the [youth] group'

Emmy Pratt

28-year-old daughter refuses to share her inheritance with her six older siblings, declining to sell her late mother's house to split up the profit: ‘I want to live in it like my mom had intended’

Jesse Kessenheimer

25 of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (January 16, 2025)

JR Atkinson

Mom saves her 5-year-old son's birthday after everyone no-shows, accepting a friend's kind offer to take the family to Disneyland only to be thwarted by her pride-stricken husband: ‘He hates handouts’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Pushy step-grandma insists that 14-year-old call her “grandma," despite teen not wanting to do so: 'I don't want to call her grandma'

Brad Dickson

‘I finally realized it’s all worth it’: New mother shares heartwarming first moment of her baby showing genuine affection after a rough first year of parenting

Lana DeGaetano

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 14, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

Strict father makes family take 'Navy showers' when visiting their house, call out son-in-law's 20 minute showers: 'This is a ridiculous rule for well-off people to impose'

JR Atkinson

UPDATE: Entitled brother steals family heirloom jewelry meant for his sister and gives it away to his fiancé instead, family feud leads to a heated lawsuit: '[It's] supposed to be mine'

Jesse Kessenheimer

UPDATE: ‘Not my problem anymore’: Woman cuts off her 39-year-old man-child ex-husband, removing herself as admin from his insurance, leaving him with higher payments and the weight of adult responsibilities

Jesse Kessenheimer

17-year old tells her new stepmother that she doesn't want to be her "daughter": 'She has a photo frame in her home office that says mommy's girl and there's a photo of me in it'

Brad Dickson