Parenting Fail

Daughter refuses to give up college fund to bail her parents out of debt due to careless overspending and failed investments: ‘I wasn’t going to throw away my future’

Lana DeGaetano

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (March 18, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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’He was never around me enough for me to care about him’: 15-year-old son decides to move away with mother without saying goodbye to his estranged father and half-siblings

Lana DeGaetano

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Guy threatens to go low contact with parents after they plan to dip into their retirement savings to ‘bail out’ his older, ‘family screw up’ brother: ‘I can't keep watching this cycle’

Lana DeGaetano

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 17, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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15-year-old commanded by stepmother and father to sign a "family contract" declaring devotion to their new blended family: 'They want us to not only accept the wedding but to accept each other as family and commit to being close'

Brad Dickson

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Mother refuses to take disobedient stepson to Disney with her toddler and her side of the family, husband's ex-wife tries to badger her into caving: ‘I'd have no real down time’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled aunt expects 30-year-old oldest child to be her cold-hearted grandmother's caregiver, despite enduring grandma's mistreatment as her ‘helper’ years earlier

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She is a sad excuse for a mom’: Pregnant daughter ‘cuts ties’ with mother after she refuses to watch her grandchild during multiple family emergencies

Lana DeGaetano

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16-year-old son calls out estranged father for 15 years of neglect in front of his new wife and 5 stepchildren, who all refuse to leave him alone: ‘I have shut down all attempts to have a relationship’

Lana DeGaetano

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33-year-old man ends 5-year-long relationship after his girlfriend refuses to discipline her 10-year-old daughter who pathologically lies: 'There are no real consequences for her actions.'

Emmy Pratt

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25-year-old daughter cuts off her critical mother after ‘lifelong’ feud and comparisons to her ‘golden child’ older brother: ‘She had her chance to be a mom, and she blew it’

Lana DeGaetano

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The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (March 11, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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24-year-old son storms out on 40-year-old mom who just had a baby when she calls herself a first-time mom: 'You really went overboard huh?'

JR Atkinson

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21-year-old college student scolds kids for throwing a water balloon at her, mom defends her kids behavior: 'I kept arguing with her until she closed the door in my face'

Emmy Pratt

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17-year-old daughter refuses to apologize to divorced parents for protesting their divorce when she was 7 years old: ‘[Mom] said I was a manipulative child who used tears to get her own way...’

Lana DeGaetano

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