parenting

11-year-old boy gets free chips from local store after helping put items away, mother goes crazy on him for "stealing," dad takes his side: 'He did nothing wrong'

Briana Viser

Contrarian claims 'Trunk or Treating' style of Halloween is superior to traditional Trick or Treating: 'I love not having knocks all hours of the night from kids asking for candy.'

Emmy Pratt

Parents remove fence and lets kids play on open land next door, new neighbors try to claim it as their own: 'They have absolutely no right to try keep my family out'

Isabella Penn

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (September 27, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

15-year-old acts cruelly toward her stepmother when her father remarries 2 years after her biological mom's passing, her uncle decides to become her legal guardian so she can heal: ‘She's happy to no longer live with her’

Lana DeGaetano

28-year-old refuses to donate $30k of her late father's inheritance to pay for her older sister's wedding, then the spoiled sister threatens to uninvite her: ‘I was the one who moved back home to take care of him’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom refuses to take 12-year-old daughter out of advanced math just because her sister-in-law's son will feel "left behind," accuses her of "teaching arrogance" and "valuing academics over family"

Ely Bulnes

19-year-old student taking a gap year off school refuses her parents' demands that she get a job and pay them rent and other living costs: '[My mom] just dismissed me and said they always cook and I should pay for the food that is handed to me'

Brad Dickson

33-year-old well-off daughter orders expensive steak in front of family who can't afford it, refuses to continue to pick up their checks: 'Every time the bill comes out, everyone is suddenly going to the bathroom'

JR Atkinson

Daughter refuses to care for elderly father who abandoned her when she was 4 years old, his family members insist that she is his only hope: 'I don't owe this man anything'

Ely Bulnes

Mother blames her 17-year-old daughter for ruining her marriage when daughter refuses to let stepfather act like her real dad, he leaves the two of them: 'I'm not gonna wait around for you to feel differently at 40'

Briana Viser

Adult child abruptly ends vacation with 80-year-old parents after they couldn't join hikes: 'I said that I was tired of catering to them, they said that they had to cater to me for years'

JR Atkinson

'You can play house [with] my dad, but don't patronize me': 26-year-old puts Dad's new 28-year-old girlfriend in her place when she starts acting like a strict stepmother on family vacation

Jesse Kessenheimer

'I snapped in a very petty way': Mother-in-law moves in and keeps wife up all night with her nosiness, wife gets revenge by scaring MIL in the middle of the night in costumes

Isabella Penn

Sister demands $30k from late father’s will to pay for dream wedding, caretaker sibling who inherited the money says no: 'If he wanted to fund my sister's wedding, he would've set aside money for that'

Isabella Penn

‘I would not take her spoiled brats anywhere’: Man offers to take sick friend's 8-year-old daughter to Disneyland Paris with his family, his sister thinks her 3 teenagers get a free invitation

Lana DeGaetano