parenting

Mom forbids 13-year-old daughter from touching anything in the kitchen unless she cleans her baking mess, leading daughter to stop doing chores: ‘Fine, I won't touch anything’

Bar Mor Hazut

Mom reaches considers kicking out 15-year-old stepdaughter, gives partner ultimatum: 'He doesn't respect me or the kids'

Ally Perry

Mom demands that her 25-year-old daughter share her location with her, daughter refuses to compromise her privacy: 'All the other moms have their kids’ locations.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom faces harsh reality check after 6-year-old daughter asks her if she loves her phone more than she loves her: 'When I talk, you don't look at me. But you always look at your phone'

Bar Mor Hazut

Mischevious neighbor terrifies 6 and 4-year-old siblings with garden gnome they believe is alive, their mom snaps and throws it away after weeks of relentless pranking: "I finally have peace"

Ely Bulnes

27-year-old daughter refuses to keep sending mom money to help with her bills when she finds out she lent $2,000 to her 30-year-old single brother with a full time job: "He needed it more than [you]"

Ely Bulnes

Dad remarries to give his 3 and 7-year-old kids a mom again, years later son admits he thinks it was a mistake, dad takes offense: ‘You never really loved her’

Bar Mor Hazut

21-year-old daughter lashes out at dad's new 50-year-old girlfriend for trying to parent her by calling her birthday dinner outfit inappropriate for her age: "[You] need to act your age"

Ely Bulnes

Parents miss their adopted 18-year-old daughter's graduation ceremony to buy their spoiled 10-year-old a $350 Labubu doll; betrayed teen moves out immediately: ‘Princess was clearly the favorite’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Man's ungrateful brother, his wife, and 2 kids ignore him after he makes a home-cooked meal for all of them, so he throws the dinner in the garbage: ‘I wasn’t their servant’

Lana DeGaetano

'I have zero interest in ever meeting her new husband': Estranged mom tries to use gift from her affair partner as an olive branch at son's wedding, is upset when son refuses to accept it

JR Atkinson

Parents refuse to take out a $35k personal loan for their daughter's Italian destination wedding, and instead choose to focus their finances on retirement: ‘She needs to either scale back her plans to fit her budget or find another way to fund it’

Lana DeGaetano

19-year-old faces disappointment after mom misses high school graduation for a beauty treatment: 'I just stared and felt numb'

Ally Perry

Bride puts her foot down after her entitled mother-in-law tries to force the bridal party to wear hideous gowns for the wedding: 'She said if she's paying, she gets a say'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom invites "class clown" to daughter's 13th birthday despite her protests, dad refuses to punish teen when she yells at bratty guest for destroying her cake: "This is why I didn't want you here!"

Ely Bulnes

24-year-old and their fiancé contemplate moving out of shared home because their parents and adult siblings turned a short stay into a permanent living situation: ‘It's time to finally move forward with our own life’

Lana DeGaetano