Parenting Fail

Helicopter parents pressure 35-year-old son to stay home and turn down a better job offer: '[It pays] $23k more than my last job'

Ben Weiss

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15-year-old tells her parents that she doesn't regard her 6-year-old foster sister as a sibling, despite foster sister's wishes: 'Her birthday wish was that I loved her back'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old boy tells stepmother that she "was never important" after refusing to spend Mother's Day with her last year: 'I never even saw her as family'

Brad Dickson

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Grandparents put pregnant daughter's ultrasound on their Christmas card without her permission, don't understand why she's upset: '[They said] I should keep my mouth shut so as not to rain on their parade'

JR Atkinson

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16-year-old accused of "making a scene" at stepsister's birthday party after standing up for himself to her aunt: 'Things spiraled out of control pretty quickly'

Brad Dickson

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Video-gaming mom forgets to pick up 9-year-old from school because she's busy playing Roblox, husband calls out her neglect: 'I immediately blew up at her'

JR Atkinson

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'The fallout was immediate': Parents plan surprise 30th birthday at daughter's house without asking her for permission, call her selfish when she declines to attend

JR Atkinson

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 21, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (January 20, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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16-year old pressured by parents to give them his savings to support his younger siblings: 'My parents are bad with money'

Brad Dickson

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15-year-old gets blamed and grounded for 12-year-old cousin's behavior while they were babysitting him: 'He lied that I had friends over'

Brad Dickson

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Mom helps 17-year-old second-semester senior play hooky, maliciously complying with school's bogus absence policy: 'It was a solid 5 months of my mom messing with this woman'

Ben Weiss

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Pushy step-grandma insists that 14-year-old call her “grandma," despite teen not wanting to do so: 'I don't want to call her grandma'

Brad Dickson

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 14, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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Strict father makes family take 'Navy showers' when visiting their house, call out son-in-law's 20 minute showers: 'This is a ridiculous rule for well-off people to impose'

JR Atkinson

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17-year old tells her new stepmother that she doesn't want to be her "daughter": 'She has a photo frame in her home office that says mommy's girl and there's a photo of me in it'

Brad Dickson

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