Parenting Fail

27-year-old criticized by a jealous mom after saving $1000s to go on a European trip, then she gets guilt-tripped into babysitting for free so the mom can have a ‘real vacation’: ‘You already got your break’

Jesse Kessenheimer

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (June 23, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

17-year-old puts pregnant stepmother in her place when she asks for help after trying to take her mother's place despite their failing relationship: ‘She reminded me that I knew my mom for less than five years, and I had known her almost as long now’

Brad Dickson

Mother safely advises 8-year-old girl to steer clear of her 3 kids who are playfully roughhousing in a public pool, girl refuses to listen and her parents scold the 3 children: ‘[She] gets splashed and loses her mind’

Lana DeGaetano

Sick mom leaves husband to figure out how to be a girl dad after he makes a snide comment about household duties while she's resting: ‘Dad never, ever made even a comment like that again’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents force 15-year-old to attend twin sister's birthday party after banning her from celebrating her own birthday due to bad grades: 'My parents told me my absence was noticed by relatives and they were embarrassed'

Brad Dickson

Woman asks mothers of 8 and 10-year-old boys to cancel their sons' joint birthday party because she's throwing a party for her 2-year-old on the same day, boy moms refuse: ‘She said a 2nd birthday party was more important than 8 and 10’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents force 18-year-old on vacation to Africa to reconnect with his heritage and family, he brings his PS4 with him on the trip and complains the entire time: '[They] forced me into something I was clear I didn’t want'

Brad Dickson

‘I feel like the villain in my own house’: Entitled mom insists grad student kid give up their room to their pregnant sister for 3 months, despite paying rent and being in school full-time

Lana DeGaetano

18-year-old refuses to invite his parents to his high school graduation because they favored his 4 younger siblings over him for his whole life: 'I got tickets for my grandparents instead'

Emmy Pratt

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (June 17, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

22-year-old daughter sues her dad for the $100k inheritance from her mother when he and her stepmother keep it for themself to start a business: 'Our relationship was over before I moved out of his house at 18'

Brad Dickson

29-year-old mom complains that she's a 'single parent' despite having a husband who works 10-12 hour days: 'I get that she's overwhelmed, I am too'

JR Atkinson

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (June 16, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

9-year-old kid breaks 19-year-old aunt's car windshield, she returns his birthday present, a computer, when mom refuses to pay for repairs: "You didn't seem to care that your son damaged my property"

Ely Bulnes

New stepmother demands 17-year-old babysit her children because his father said he would if they married: 'My relationship with his wife and her kids doesn't exist really, and I know that [makes her mad] but she was his choice, not mine'

Brad Dickson