parenting

'She told me I was "erasing" her son's identity': New mom demands that everyone call newborn by his elaborate full name, considers limiting contact with 30-year-old brother for using nickname

Ely Bulnes

Daughter swears not to take care of parents in their old age after they refuse to forgive her for leaving med school to follow her passion: 'I told them flat out that won't be happening'

Ely Bulnes

Successful musician refuses to use his savings to pay off in-laws' mortgage, leading their home to be foreclosed, family resents the decision: 'You could easily pay it'

Bar Mor Hazut

Parents demand 20-year-old daughter take 10-year-old sister everywhere with her, daughter finally puts foot down after years of babysitting: ‘I’m trying to live my own life’

Bar Mor Hazut

Divorced parents live together in the same house with their 5 and 13-year-old kids, dad refuses to split the cost of a couch with his ex-wife: 'This is an untenable situation.'

Emmy Pratt

24-Year-Old Horse Owner Cuts Ties With Toxic Parents When They Mistake Routine Business Maintenance With Family Disloyalty

Jesse Kessenheimer

Parents sabotage daughter’s dream school scholarship acceptance, secretly committing her to a local university: ‘My parents have a whole separate plan for my life’

Etai Eshet

'Keep him out of my yard!': 8-year-old kid gets caught stealing neighbor's garden gnomes, then knocks down neighbor's fence in retaliation

Ben Weiss

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (January 24, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

Gas company raises prices before winter storm, instructs parent of baby to "turn heat down" in -21° weather: 'If you have money, you can stay warm. If you don't, guess you'll freeze'

Remy Millisky

Friction-Maxxing might be the thing that saves us from our own worst tendencies: 'Frictionmaxxing is really humanmaxxing'

JR Atkinson

Single mom gets humbled after telling widow she doesn't know about being a single parent: 'You could just ask your husband for help'

Ally Perry

Dad yells at mom for letting their toddler shout and play loudly while he was in a meeting in his home office: 'I hope whoever was on that call heard you being horrible to your wife.'

Emmy Pratt

New parents in their 20s share a heartwarming moment, putting chaos aside and indulging in the simplicity of past pleasures alongside their 9-month-old baby: ‘We talked like normal humans again’

Jesse Kessenheimer

Brother fights to become guardian of 17-year-old sister, refuses to return sister’s birth certificate and social security to their mother, who demands it: ‘I have been defacto guardian since she was 14 and I was 23’

Etai Eshet

Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

Etai Eshet