Parenting Fail

Gen X University Employee Urges Parents to Stop Booking Appointments for Their Adult Children: 'Let your kids grow up.'

Emmy Pratt

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AI-Obsessed Dad Proposes Using an AI Voice Model to Read to his 3 Day Old Son Instead of Doing it Himself: 'Parenting hits different when you work in AI.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom completely reorganizes 20-year-old's space when she's away for the day, she returns dismayed: 'I explicitly told her I hate people moving my things'

JR Atkinson

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Mom finds an undeposited check for $500 addressed to her daughter, sobs and berates her daughter for not giving her the money: 'She said she could have used that $500 if I didn’t want it.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom takes out a credit card in her daughter's name, refuses to pay the $500 balance she racked up that was due September 1st: 'She wanted to build a payment history.'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents charge 21-year-old daughter $300/month if she moves in with her boyfriend: '[It is] a made-up number they got for the 'average' cost of a singular phone plan, health insurance, and half of my car payment'

JR Atkinson

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Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom asks 15-year-old's fast food manager if she can clock out 20 minutes after her shift ends, teen gets massively upset: 'Your 15 year old should be clocking out on time'

JR Atkinson

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16-year-old demands refund for $1500 flight after getting stuck at LAX for 22 hours, dad pockets it because he paid: 'She reacted like she was getting all of it'

Ally Perry

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Mom faces criticism for disparaging 17-year-old daughter's budgeting hack: 'Can't spend money when you don't have the item to spend it'

Ally Perry

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'My partner loves to rage bait people': 29-year-old dad constantly bothers and teases 2-year-old daughter, mom is fed up with it

JR Atkinson

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Teacher pressures mom to let her post pictures of her 5-year-old son on the school's social media: 'I don't post my child online.'

Emmy Pratt

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Bride refuses to let 6-year-old flower girl wear her princess dress to her wedding, despite her sister's insistence that her daughter wear the princess dress: 'It's her signature, and she feels more comfortable in it.'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents spend $30k of daughter's tuition money on kitchen renovation after she takes a year off from school: 'She thought we were bluffing'

JR Atkinson

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Parents spend $30K of their daughter's college savings on a kitchen renovation because she decided to take a year off college: 'I told her she could attend community college.'

Emmy Pratt

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Stepmom refuses to let her 9-year-old stepson's mom sleep over at her house the night before his birthday so she can wake him up to wish him Happy Birthday: 'Every milestone will become this. Every birthday, Christmas, Wedding day.'

Emmy Pratt

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