Parenting FAILS

Man's father-in-law expects him to make home renovations worth over $130k while paying rent and without putting their second home in his name: 'Now everyone is upset and apparently it's all my fault’

Lana DeGaetano

Woman bars stepdad from going by a name that means ‘father’ with her newborn son: ‘[We] are uncomfortable with our son calling him this’

Lana DeGaetano

16-year-old daughter refuses to live with father's new girlfriend, who he got pregnant only 7 months after her biological mother passed: ‘He's still trying to make this all okay with me’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I wasn't living with him and his kids’: 17-year-old kid moves in with grandparents after neglectful mother allows her boyfriend and his 2 children to ‘trash’ their room repeatedly without consequence

Lana DeGaetano

16-year-old mom stops her family from seeing her baby after her 30-year-old sister took her 4-month-old to the beach without applying sunscreen: 'My parents said I was too young to know what's best'

Emmy Pratt

Grandparents introduce son's affair partner as 'the mother of our precious grandson,' son flips out that she didn't correct them even though it's true: 'I just didn't want to cause a scene or embarrass anyone'

JR Atkinson

American godmother refuses to help Vietnamese godchild apply to American universities, but helps her younger sister with worse grades: '[She used] her husband's connection to ask for scholarship'

JR Atkinson

Single mom expects her 26-year-old sister to leave work 15 minutes into her shift so she can help watch her two children, sister refuses and sets strict boundaries: ‘I was yelled at and then hung up on’

Lana DeGaetano

'It's incredibly unsafe and illegal to have a baby in the front seat like that': 24-year-old drive-thru worker confronts customer with baby in front seat with no car seat, mom claims she did it because the baby was crying

Emmy Pratt

‘Not a single moment of their trip had been about me’: Entitled family living abroad leaves 23-year-old woman's graduation early after ignoring her for majority of their visit, woman decides to call off her trip to visit them in Germany as payback

Lana DeGaetano

22-year-old daughter refuses to give stepmom, formerly her father's affair partner, a ticket to her college graduation because she only wants those ‘important’ to her to attend: ‘It was my graduation and I was going to be selfish about it’

Lana DeGaetano

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (May 19, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old sells her 37-year-old stepmother's vintage prom dress behind her back so she could buy new headphones: 'The dress is 100% silk, one of a kind, and the brand doesn't exist anymore'

Emmy Pratt

14-year-old brother tricks 17-year-old sister with fake spider because she treats the bathroom like her private selfie studio, sparking chaos in the family: 'She spends 30 to 45 minutes taking selfies in the mirror with like 6 different outfits'

Brad Dickson

Mom demands 16-year-old take care of his 2 half-siblings and 5 step-siblings and share a room with 3 of them, gets angry when he decides to move in with his dad instead: 'She told me now I was being extra selfish'

Emmy Pratt

‘I don't want to feel like I'm raising someone else's legacy’: Husband asks pregnant wife to name their child after his late ex-wife, she refuses because she wants her daughter to have her own identity

Lana DeGaetano