Parenting Fail

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

Mom steals back rare Pokémon cards from 8-year-old nephew that he stole first from her daughter, refuses to give back any extras she took by mistake: 'That's a reasonable consequence for stealing'

Ely Bulnes

Daughter calls mom a "Dinosaur" after she berates her son, a single dad, for having menstrual products at the ready for his teenage daughters: 'Periods are a private matter and his girls shouldn't be going to him'

Ely Bulnes

40-year-old mom refuses to let her friend's thieving 10-year-old daughter stay at her house unsupervised, friend freaks out: 'Is there anything she could have stolen that’s worth the price of a friendship?'

Emmy Pratt

Divorced dad asks sister to watch kids while he takes his yoga instructor to Japan, she tells him he's a 'bad dad': 'Your brother is never going to be a good person'

JR Atkinson

43-year-old mom spends 20-year-old daughter's college tuition on gambling debts, pressures her to not tell her dad about it: 'If my tuition isn't paid by 6 PM, I lose my slot'

Emmy Pratt

Mom tells 3.5-year-old daughter that she looks super ugly after she refused to change out of her cowboy boots for school: 'Is it wrong to tell her how ugly her outfit looked?'

Emmy Pratt

19-year-old brother tells his 24-year-old single mother sister to raise her own child if she has a problem with how he is helping her after she critiques his assistance: 'He got mad and said that I have no right to judge her parenting'

Brad Dickson

‘I wake up sometimes after she crawls in’: 15-year-old removes the ladder from her bunkbed after her 5-year-old niece continually climbs up to her bunk in the middle of the night, her 24-year-old sister refuses to acknowledge the safety hazard

Lana DeGaetano

‘She'll always be my daughter and needs help’: Caring father allows his pregnant 18-year-old daughter to move into his home after her mom kicks her out, then refuses to compromise with his newly-moved-in long-term girlfriend when she objects

Lana DeGaetano

20-year-old rejects his stepmother and her family after they treated him like an outsider since he was 5 years old, despite his dad's demands that he consider them family: 'I was left out and they were angry I was even there'

Brad Dickson

'That's tacky': Parents request guests at their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party give cash instead of presents

Emmy Pratt

Mom treats 10-year-old son's birthdays like an afterthought compared to teenage daughters' elaborate parties, dad secretly plans a surprise party for him to counter her blatant favoritism: ‘I want him to feel as precious as his sisters’

Ely Bulnes