Parenting Fail

Father buys son a luxury car for his 16th birthday, then his ex-wife scolds him for refusing to financially contribute to her new family: ‘Why would I be the one to buy them a car?’

Lana DeGaetano

16-year-old forced to give up bedroom for 6-year-old nephew's visit but refuses to remove "scary" posters, internet helps him find a middle ground: 'I'm not ripping down a permanent poster for people I don't want in my room'

Ely Bulnes

Homeschool mom brags about her 4-year-old not knowing her numbers and letters and her 8-year-old who can't read chapter books: 'So sick of this lazy hippie homeschooling mentality'

Emmy Pratt

Parents force older siblings to pay for 20-year-old sister's flight to Disney, she refuses to go out of solidarity for siblings: 'My parents are extremely wealthy doctors who own their own business. None of us kids are financially comfortable.'

JR Atkinson

23-year-old remote worker refuses to continue babysitting 3 and 5-year-old nieces at sister's every whim, family insist that 'You are at home anyway'

Ely Bulnes

Update: 16-year-old discovers that her father has taken $300 cash from savings jar on top of the rising rent that he has been charging her, her boss agrees to help her: 'He said that since I’m his daughter, he’s entitled to the money I make'

Brad Dickson

25-year-old germaphobe dreaming of motherhood thinks she'll be able to train her future children not to be dirty and gross: 'She thinks if we just work at it, we have a spotless house and a spotless kid.'

Emmy Pratt

28-year-old son refuses to take on $250k debt from his parents’ two unstable family businesses, but might end up to selling their family home to make ends meet: ‘If I co-sign for this debt, I'm legally responsible for it’

Lana DeGaetano

31-year-old divorced mom of a 9 and 11-year-old refuses to meet with ex-husbands 2nd wife who wants to usurp her as the mother figure in her children's lives: 'They told me to get used to hearing her called mom because they would not stop it.'

Emmy Pratt

21-year-old daughter refuses to sign on as a potential legal guardian to her estranged dad's new 4-year-old stepchild: ‘My life is separate from them... I have no wish for anything closer’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents demand that 22-year-old daughter pay over $1,000 in rent and utilities in their apartment abroad while 26-year-old golden child brother lives rent free, they lash out when she threatens to move: 'They called me ungrateful'

Ely Bulnes

Single mom allows her kids to skip their uncle's celebration of life because their father's new girlfriend will be in attendance: ‘[My son] expresses that he does not want her there’

Lana DeGaetano

14-year-old destroys neighbor's flower pots, mom makes him clean and replant everything to take accountability, but dad accuses her of going too far: ‘Making him do physical work was too embarassing’

Ely Bulnes

‘I felt like collateral damage in their attempts to cut my mom out’: Paternal family cuts contact with woman and her mother following a divorce, so the woman tells her cousins the truth about how they treated her over 8 years later

Lana DeGaetano

'Please don't put your toes in my spaghetti': A Glorious Thread of Anecdotes from Tired Toddler Moms That Perfectly Sum Up the Terrible Twos

Ely Bulnes

17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

Brad Dickson