parenting

22 Back-To-School Posts for Parents Who Still Remember the Scholastic Book Fair

Isabella Penn

60-year-old grandparents criticize 10-year-old granddaughter’s piano playing, single dad kicks them out for laughing at her, the internet rejoices in his ‘mama bear’ actions

Briana Viser

‘We are not rich at all’: Frugal brother catches his unemployed sibling buying an expensive LEGO set with their mom's credit card, teaches him a lesson about family and finances

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘People in the old days used to have pride’: Entitled parents insist daughter highlight her hair to attract a man, claiming it’s ‘dirty, dishwater blonde,’ she refuses

Molly Vincent

Update: 16-year-old discovers that her father has taken $300 cash from savings jar on top of the rising rent that he has been charging her, her boss agrees to help her: 'He said that since I’m his daughter, he’s entitled to the money I make'

Brad Dickson

25-year-old germaphobe dreaming of motherhood thinks she'll be able to train her future children not to be dirty and gross: 'She thinks if we just work at it, we have a spotless house and a spotless kid.'

Emmy Pratt

Stepdad walks 23-year-old daughter down the aisle, she posts the picture online, only to have bio father complain it's disrespectful: ‘You weren't even in the wedding’

Bar Mor Hazut

Stay-at-home dad dyes 14-year-old son's hair purple, pushes back when working wife complains about them making memories without her: 'My son isn't even comfortable with her anymore'

Ally Perry

Bride-to-be “Katie” coordinates heist with mother to steal best friend’s wedding dress for her own engagement photoshoot, tries to play it off as having borrowed it: ‘[I] wanted to feel special too’

Ely Bulnes

28-year-old son refuses to take on $250k debt from his parents’ two unstable family businesses, but might end up to selling their family home to make ends meet: ‘If I co-sign for this debt, I'm legally responsible for it’

Lana DeGaetano

‘If I waited to make memories with our son, we wouldn’t have any’: 14-year-old dyes his hair with help from stay-at-home dad without mom, she becomes resentful

Molly Vincent

'I am speechless': Maine Coon owner and engineer builds his cats a miniature subway system at home taking cat pawrenting to a whole new level

Blake Seidel

31-year-old divorced mom of a 9 and 11-year-old refuses to meet with ex-husbands 2nd wife who wants to usurp her as the mother figure in her children's lives: 'They told me to get used to hearing her called mom because they would not stop it.'

Emmy Pratt

21-year-old daughter refuses to sign on as a potential legal guardian to her estranged dad's new 4-year-old stepchild: ‘My life is separate from them... I have no wish for anything closer’

Lana DeGaetano

Stepdad Patrick forbids 28-year-old stepson Chris from sharing a hotel room with his mom, claims it's inappropriate: 'My mom said she was scared to stay alone at a hotel'

Emmy Pratt

Woman rejects fiance's honeymoon itinerary after he plans to spend 4 days with his parents right after their wedding, he takes her refusal personally: ‘[They] would ruin the vibe for me’

Ely Bulnes