parenting

Entitled iPad mom says her kid's tablet is more important than a traveling employee's job in an attempt to commandeer the occupied charging station at the airport: ‘Whatever you're doing can wait'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom calls out other mom for not keeping track of her 14-year-old daughter despite telling her she'd be in touch

JR Atkinson

Mom lies about son turning down Ivy League school to attend cheaper state school to his 17-year-old cousin: 'The real version is that I applied to a school I really wanted, got rejected, and ended up at a state university.'

Emmy Pratt

Mom forbids her 17-year-old son from seeing his girlfriend after he failed his French exam: 'He got every answer wrong except for 2 on a 50 question exam.'

Emmy Pratt

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': 21 Parenting laughs for witty mothers and fathers (March 14, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

2nd grade teacher continually cancels recess because of misbehavior, punishing even the good kids, parents want to escalate: 'He is crying every day before school from anxiety about his recess being cancelled'

JR Atkinson

Dad faces 21-year-old daughter's car problems, boyfriend gets annoyed because he wanted to do it: 'It was starting to make her nervous to drive'

Ally Perry

Rich 45-year-old mom guesses that the average American makes $300K annually, freaks out after discovering it's closer to $50K: 'I spend that much on clothes every year!'

Emmy Pratt

17-year-old refuses to wake his stepmother up after she sleeps through all of her alarms: 'I am a teenager and she is a 36 year old woman.'

Emmy Pratt

20-year-old daughter refuses to let family use her lakehouse after stepmom asks to go there on vacation, then demands the kids sleep in tents outside: ‘You just view me as a house key’

Bar Mor Hazut

Daycare director puts entitled helicopter parents in their place, awarding their 4-year-old Brody the same participation trophy as every other kid: 'You're telling me my son gets the same thing as the kid who picked his nose the whole time?'

Jesse Kessenheimer

15-year-old girl refuses to let her 16-year-old brother use headphones, Mom and Dad side with him: 'I didn’t want to lend them because this is an ongoing issue'

Remy Millisky

Helicopter mom tries to con college RA into opening up her kid's door while they are in class, kid tells her off: ‘[It] was mortifying’

Lana DeGaetano

New parents blame grandma for sick baby's poor appetite and forbid her from babysitting, however, internet sides with grandma: ‘Absolutely everything is different when a kid is sick!'

Elna McHilderson

21-year-old sharing a bank account with controlling guardian worries she freeze his funds when he tries to move out and become financially independent

Etai Eshet

Mom cuts off childfree friend after she scolds her for letting her 20-month-old touch her bowl: 'She found it really unacceptable that my baby was touching her things.'

Emmy Pratt