Parenting Fail

Successful adopted sister refuses to co-sign her unemployed grad-student younger sister's mortgage, despite their parents insisting she needs a house: 'My mom threatened to cut off any future financial help (like wedding money) if I don’t help right now'

Emmy Pratt

'The gift she got me was creepy and invasive': Pushy woman gifts boyfriend's pregnant daughter a videographer for her live birth, cries when daughter politely declines

JR Atkinson

Stepdad tells 15-year-old stepson that if he doesn't let him adopt him, he'll be the reason he gets divorced from his mother: 'He said he's tired of being dismissed as a dad, and if I don't accept him, then he's done'

Emmy Pratt

Parents make daughter buy family's groceries since age 12, dad refuses to contribute and weaponizes incompetence when forced to: 'Your parents are terrible. Both of them'

JR Atkinson

'You don't shame or hide things that should be celebrated': Mom lashes out when daughter-in-law announces pregnancy in front of her other, favorite daughter-in-law who has had trouble conceiving

JR Atkinson

8-year-old daughter wants snowglobe for Christmas, mom says no, dad gives it to her anyways and it breaks instantly: '[My] daughter dropped it'

Brad Dickson

'She is free to go to her mother': Stepmom kicks out her entitled 21-year-old stepdaughter after she demands to use her car over Christmas break and throw a New Years Eve party at her house when she has a 2 and 5-year-old

Emmy Pratt

Update: Shopaholic mother spends nearly all of daughter's college fund, husband files for divorce: 'It's VERY easy to spend $170,000'

Ben Weiss

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (December 24, 2024)

Emmy Pratt

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (December 23, 2024)

Emmy Pratt

Mom confronts dad of teenage daughter's boyfriend for breaking up with her daughter 'the wrong way,' dad says her daughter 'isn't special': 'You really need to work on your empathy'

JR Atkinson

'I told her she's a horrible mother': Aunt calls out mom in the family group chat for constantly favoring her 15-year-old juvenile delinquent son over her often-forgotten 13-year-old son

Emmy Pratt

Woman refuses to babysit sister's 7-year-old and 5-year-old every weekend while their parents go out, sister goes no-contact to punish her: 'She even guilt-tripped me by saying the kids would be disappointed'

JR Atkinson

'Mom would just let her cry it out in her nursery alone': 16-year-old comforts her baby sister when she's crying while teething, mom gets angry at her for convincing the baby that she's her mom

Emmy Pratt

Mom asks unemployed 23-year-old son to do 10 hours of housework in exchange for bailing him out of debt, son wants to count the 5 hours he spend attending a concert with her: 'Stop enabling him'

JR Atkinson

6-year-old's absent father comes back into the picture and invites her and mother to Christmas dinner, chaos ensues: 'I am making sure he never has contact with my child'

Ben Weiss