parenting

Mom argues with 20-year-old, confiscates phone and sends her to her room: 'Say hello to the nursing home in 20 years'

Ally Perry

Parent Cautions Against Letting Kids 'Be Weird'—Internet Doesn't Know How to Feel

Ally Perry

Dad goes two months without meeting his newborn grandkid, then plans an unannounced visit, and daughter considers letting him drive hours to an empty house: ‘He can’t remember my kids’ names'

Celeste Mello

'I don’t understand how that would work': Teen daughter refuses to support parents' decision to adopt another child after mom claims she doesn't want to become an empty nester

Bar Mor Hazut

15-year-old twins find family Nintendo hidden in their little sister’s backpack after dad does nothing, secretly reclaim it to play Tomodachi Life and Persona 5: ‘We haven’t told anyone’

Celeste Mello

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': A family gathering of parenting laughs for witty mothers and fathers (July 18, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

Mom says she's selling college freshman's furniture and turning their room into a gym, tells them to sleep on the floor during school breaks

JR Atkinson

‘Teaching your kid to be an adult’: 12-year-old daughter backs out of all of her commitments and now wants to quit the cross-country team she begged to join, so mom forces her to call the coach herself and quit with her whole chest

Elna McHilderson

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 17, 2026)

JR Atkinson

Desperate mom asks strangers on the internet to babysit her 6-year-old son for free because she needs a break from him: 'He gets out of camp at 2:30 and I'm dread it.'

Emmy Pratt

‘I haven't been on a date for 6 years’: Retired, divorced dad asks his unemployed 25-year-old son to stay elsewhere for one night so he can have a date at home, and the son gets angry about it

Etai Eshet

Grandparent refuses to babysit grandchildren during summer break without getting paid, parents claim: ‘You need to step up as a grandparent’

Bar Mor Hazut

Mom Berates 18-Year-Old Babysitter For Letting Her 11 and 12-Year-Old Kids Swim in Their Pool, Despite Dad Telling The Babysitter They Were Allowed to Swim

Emmy Pratt

Dad Uses AI To Write Congratulations Note After 31-Year-Old Son Buys His First Home, Son Calls Him Out for It

JR Atkinson

Retired Dad moves 10 hours away from daughter, then demands she and her family travel to visit him, daughter refuses: ‘We have a 1.5-year-old who hates driving’

Bar Mor Hazut

Parents deny 26-year-old daughter the same advantages her younger siblings get, refuse to hear her out when she complains

JR Atkinson