Parenting Fail

Parents travel to attend their daughter's law school graduation abroad, only for the mother to make the entire day about herself: ‘I felt scolded, embarrassed, and overshadowed throughout the day’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents debate whether rise in competitive youth sports has led to decline in children's physical fitness: 'I hear they're doing tryouts for 3rd graders now'

Emmy Pratt

Mom complains that her 2-year-old can't properly use an iPad yet: 'My 4-year-old has always used a tablet for games and occasional tv time and has never problems'

Emmy Pratt

Entitled 30-year-old woman demands younger sister babysit her newborn 20+ hours a week for free, after she refuses due to working a full-time job, her whole family turns against her: 'Family doesn’t charge family'

Emma Saven

Man's brother visits his home for Labor Day and brings his new wife and 9-year-old stepson, who disrespects him the entire visit and throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way: ‘As guests, there is a level of conduct and respect they need to follow’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I will literally not be in it for even a year, but I'm supposed to shell out hundreds on a wall?’: Entitled step-dad expects teenage children to pay for their bedroom walls while their home undergoes unnecessary renovations

Lana DeGaetano

Parents suspect that jobless 18-year-old daughter is sabotaging interviews to stay unemployed, they promise to stop paying for her phone unless she starts helping out around the house: 'She isn't taking it serious'

Ely Bulnes

23-year-old kid refuses to attend father's 10th wedding anniversary party after they were barred from attending the actual wedding, in addition to several years of emotional neglect: ‘After that, I started getting excluded from so many things’

Lana DeGaetano

'HALF THE COLLECTION [was] missing': Woman's future nephews force her 8-year-old daughter to hand over her Pokémon card collection, so the woman steals them all back and then some

Lana DeGaetano

Mother refuses to give ex-boyfriend's new kids her 15-year-old son's school supplies, ex-boyfriend then tries to play the ‘family’ card: ‘It's not my job to buy these other kids supplies’

Lana DeGaetano

16-year-old constantly steals her 19-year-old sister's possessions, parents buy her whatever she wants to stop her from stealing: 'My parents fund her Starbucks, skincare, clothes, and everything else'

Emmy Pratt

Mother of the bride asks bride to pick her up from the airport on her wedding day: 'This is a major inconvenience not a minor one'

JR Atkinson

4-year-old suddenly refuses to sleep in his room, months later, sleuthing mother finds out the cause: a Marvel poster: 'Evil face is gone!'

Ely Bulnes

Mom reads her 16-year-old daughter's diary and kicks her out because she wrote that she doesn't see her stepdad as family: 'He's just the guy my mom is married to.'

Emmy Pratt

Mother-in-law schedules surgery during son and daughter-in-law's long-awaited 15 day international vacation, wants them to cancel: 'This was clearly intentional and you'd be nuts to cancel'

JR Atkinson

Siblings call out 38-year-old brother for adopting a 6-year-old, claim he's robbing their children of his inheritance: 'I am robbing them of potential wealth'

JR Atkinson