Parenting Fail

‘This is NOT normal’: 24-year-old married woman removes parental tracking from her phone after parents judge her comings and goings, they unjustifiably retaliate

Lana DeGaetano

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 8, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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16-year-old puts presumptuous stepmother in her place after she demands to be called “mom”: 'She said that she's my mom because she's at home with me every day and is married to my dad'

Brad Dickson

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‘I'm just tired of everything falling on me’: Mother of 6, 4, and 1-year-old children ‘blows up’ on husband after he fails to get their child to overnight camp on time

Lana DeGaetano

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'I do more than most fathers': 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out

JR Atkinson

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 7, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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Stepdad forces 10 and 12-year-old stepkids to never mention their late father in front of him, mom can't understand why they don't want a relationship with him 17 years later: 'Frank yelled at my sister because she mentioned dad in her graduation speech.'

Emmy Pratt

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56-year-old mother "borrows" and ruins 19-year-old daughter's makeup by mixing it together: 'She has a history of using my makeup without asking me and 99% of the time she uses products incorrectly and damages them'

Brad Dickson

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40-year-old father and teacher leaves 15-year-old daughter's musical early, family refuses to go to the musical at the school where he works: ‘He had not bothered to sit through his own daughter's [performance]’

Brad Dickson

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Ex-wife chastises father for not comforting 15-year-old daughter more after she stole her 16-year-old stepsister's heirloom necklace: 'Any more comforting would be coddling, and she needs to learn from this'

Brad Dickson

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‘My dad would be disgusted with what she did’: 17-year-old son refuses to defend his mother against paternal grandparents after she gives his late father's belongings away to her new stepchildren

Lana DeGaetano

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'Left her on read': Entitled mom RSVP's 'Yes' to a kids party then demands 3-days prior that her fellow parent change the date because her kid suddenly has better plans

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Parents get mad at mother for giving 13-year-old girl's softball team pizza and "junk food" at a sleepover: 'It’s 15 girls, so I figured it was easiest because these [foods] feed a lot of children'

Brad Dickson

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25 Parenting Memes for Moms and Dads Who Need Their Own Designated Nap Time

Ely Bulnes

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36-year-old stepmom forces 18-year-old stepdaughter to babysit her 3-month-old baby onto her without asking, won't take no for an answer: 'I have woken up to her crib in my room'

Emmy Pratt

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Soon-to-be dad tells estranged family to get lost after they try to weasel back into his life solely because he and his wife have a kid on the way: ‘Where were they when I needed them?’

Lana DeGaetano

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