Parenting FAILS

Step-grandmother continually posts pictures of 8-year-old and 5-year-old children despite being told not to, parents refuse to let her see them: 'Your kids, your rules'

JR Atkinson

17-year-old confronts his father for being a better dad to his stepchildren than he was for him, his stepmom overhears and scolds him for not accepting her children: 'I told [my dad] I wanted him to ignore them and only care about me'

Emmy Pratt

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (December 31, 2024)

Emmy Pratt

Couple surprises parents with 10-day Italy vacation, 15-year-old sister throws a fit when she's not invited despite it being an adults-only trip: 'My parents have put us in an impossible situation'

JR Atkinson

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (December 30, 2024)

Emmy Pratt

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

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

Emmy Pratt

Ex-husband scolds the mother of his 3 children for not getting a Christmas present for the 4-year-old daughter that resulted from his affair: 'He took out this dollar store doll and he told me that was all he could afford for his daughter'

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