parenting

20+ Poignant Parenting Posts That Hit Home This Week

Ely Bulnes

32-year-old mom rents a room in friend's house, wants to ban friend from bringing men around her 12-year-old son: 'If you don't like who she brings home, you need to move out'

JR Atkinson

24-year-old refuses to help parents during their financial struggle after they spent her entire childhood only giving money to her younger sister: ‘Get her to help you’

Bar Mor Hazut

16-year-old abruptly kicked out by father with just $20 and no support for "talking back", spends days homeless before friend shelters him, he is eventually fetched by his father, but struggles with forgiveness years later: 'I've never healed from this'

Emma Saven

Woman offers her younger brother and his family to move into her home while they're reeling from a rough financial situation, but now they're apprehensive about leaving: ‘I have a son who deserves space to grow’

Lana DeGaetano

Former homeschooler begs parents not to homeschool their kids: 'If you think you'll be a good teacher, you're wrong'

Remy Millisky

28-year-old exposes her parents' favoritism by hiding her job promotion from them so they never have a chance to make it about the Golden Child older sibling: 'Oh, your brother could afford a house at your age'

Jesse Kessenheimer

9-year-old walks home in the rain when friend's parents don't offer her a ride home, despite her parents always giving the friend a ride, dad of 9-year-old refuses to continue carpooling: 'I found my daughter fully soaked and wet'

Briana Viser

Parents get kicked out of son's apartment while visiting due to their entitled behavior, they cut contact after being forced to return home early: ‘I had been breaking my back to make them happy’

Bar Mor Hazut

Stepmom cuts stepdaughters off after she has a child of her own with their dad, dad follows his wife's lead and removes his daughters from his will: ‘His other child gets all his money’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (October 11, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

19-year-old college student refuses to change her major from Fine Arts to Computer Science despite her parents' insistence: 'If I don’t change my major by next semester, they’ll cut off their financial support.'

Emmy Pratt

Wife safeguards her home from a freeloading 26-year-old brother-in-law, then her husband insists otherwise, so she leaves him in charge of babysitting the guests: 'He's responsible for cleaning, meals, entertainment, etc.'

Jesse Kessenheimer

16 and 18-year-old turn against Dad's new wife when she threatens to end the co-operative coparenting rhythm between their bioparents:

Jesse Kessenheimer

22-year-old daughter refuses to go on family trip, after her family tells her she can bring her girlfriend, and then suddenly uninvites her days before leaving, claiming they wanted it to be “only family”

Emma Saven

Divorced woman refuses to let her 2 ex-stepchildren stay at her house when her biological daughter does, her ex-husband insists despite the children's rejection of her as a mother figure years ago: ‘[The children] told me I was cruel’

Lana DeGaetano