Parenting Fail

'You're asking for trouble': Dad buys milkshake for 10-year-old after dentist visit, mom claims it's 'unfair' to their 7 and 8-year-old kids

JR Atkinson

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Father refuses to force his 5-year-old and 9-year-old kids to accept his mother's unpleasant, unreliable boyfriend: ‘That wasn't up for discussion’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled father expects daughter to support her 3 distant step-siblings when he passes, daughter refuses to take on caretaking role: ‘I'd lose the ability to support myself’

Lana DeGaetano

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17-year-old moves in with his grandparents after his neglectful parents who constantly make him babysit announce they're having a 7th kid: 'My parents are angry because they don't have help'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad demands $40k of 19-year-old's inheritance and savings after abandoning him as a child: 'I haven't lived with my father in 5 years'

Brad Dickson

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‘He wasn't my dad... He was Greg’: 17-year-old son refuses to consider his stepdad a father figure after he falsely brags about being ‘the dad that stepped up’

Lana DeGaetano

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'She pushed it too far': Mother-in-law criticizes daughter-in-law for going to the gym while pregnant, pregnant daughter snaps at her

JR Atkinson

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (March 3, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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21-year-old gets full custody of her 6-month-old sister after parents abandon her, parents come back 3 years later demanding her back: 'My parents did the same with me, giving me to my grandmother till I was 5'

Emmy Pratt

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27-year-old daughter starts charging her live-in stepdad $400 rent after he tries to dictate what she wears and who can visit her home: ‘He can't tell me what to do in my house’

Lana DeGaetano

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22-year-old daughter refuses to acknowledge her 6-year-old half-sister because she's the product of her father's infidelity: ‘I don't want to be the bigger person’

Lana DeGaetano

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25-year-old woman hides her 7-month-old baby from her boyfriend, sobs and bangs down his neighbor's doors after he breaks up with her: 'We had been seeing each other for a few weeks and I had no idea she had a baby'

Emmy Pratt

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Husband and wife ‘leak’ fake baby names online to prank their prying family members, family does not have a laugh: ‘They said it was childish’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled sister insists she bring her 3 step children and 2 bio kids to her sibling's in law's lake house, sibling refuses to indulge her: ‘It's not our house’

Lana DeGaetano

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'It seems like everyone but you is responsible': Dad accuses friend's kids of stealing his 8-year-old's toy, blames wife for not putting it away

JR Atkinson

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'She's not my parent': 43-year-old stepmom who can't cook forces 'parental bonding' with 17-year-old stepson by asking him to teach her basic meals, son refuses to participate

JR Atkinson

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