Parenting Fail

Mom Forces 17-Year-Old Daughter and 16-Year-Old Son to Catch 1 Fish Before She Buys Them Cars: 'When They Were Little, They Wouldn't Even Try Fishing Because it Looked Hard.'

Emmy Pratt

Parents force 21-year-old to send texts 2x per day saying 'good morning' and 'goodnight'— 21-year-old protests

JR Atkinson

16-year-old destroys 15-year-old stepsister's $6000 purse, parents force her to pay it back and she flips out

JR Atkinson

Mom uses daughter's Klarna account to pay for vacations she can't afford, ruining her credit score: 'You need to put your foot down'

JR Atkinson

Mom says she's selling college freshman's furniture and turning their room into a gym, tells them to sleep on the floor during school breaks

JR Atkinson

Parents deny 26-year-old daughter the same advantages her younger siblings get, refuse to hear her out when she complains

JR Atkinson

Mom stands by her adult daughters' independence and pushes back on her husband's new rule to limit or charge her daughter's boyfriend's frequent stays in their basement apartment: 'He wants to limit to 3 days a week or charge him $350 a month'

Etai Eshet

53-year-old stepdad demands his 19-year-old stepdaughter and her boyfriend contribute financially after they overstayed a 30-day arrangement by 4 months, while he struggles to pay rent

Etai Eshet

20-year-old son loses $10k of family's money in cryptocurrency, dad sells his car and entire family calls him a 'monster'

JR Atkinson

Longtime family friend invites a fatherless 19-year-old Morgan to Father’s Day dinner with his wife and teenage kids, gets screamed at by mom who abandoned her: ‘Am I wrong for letting not-my-daughter celebrate Father's Day with me?'

Etai Eshet

Teen refuses to give up room for grandparents when they're in town, family calls them out: 'I love my grandma very much but I don’t want it to cost my own comfort'

JR Atkinson

Delusional high school senior shows up to graduation in her own cap and gown despite failing out of school: 'The Dean of Students walks over and tells her [...] this area is for graduating students'

Ben Weiss

31-year-old son refuses to eat with sheltered mom who asks for 'ferret sauce' at a Mexican restaurant: 'I think she comes off as ignorant and I get so embarrassed'

JR Atkinson

23-year-old finds out that stepmother turned her bedroom into a dog room, failed to tell her for months: 'My boxes were in the garage'

JR Atkinson

Moms face off at 11-year-old's birthday party after one entitled parent brings four uninvited kids to the party: 'We only have enough [room] for the kids Lillian invited!'

Ben Weiss

Mother "fires" her own mother from babysitting her child after she goes behind her back and cancels free play classes: 'She describes it as chaos and insists that a walk around the block or a trip to the library is just as good'

Brad Dickson