parenting

Childfree 30-year-old refuses to babysit for sister with 3 kids under 7 after she tells her she doesn't know real stress: 'Did you really just call me a free trial version of a human being?'

Ally Perry

30-year-old woman refuses to babysit sister's kids after sister treats her like a ‘free trial version of a human being’ for not having kids of her own

Bar Mor Hazut

‘Raise your own kids’: 17-year-old daughter raises 4 younger siblings instead of mom, she reaches a breaking point when her mom gets pregnant again

Bar Mor Hazut

Woman protects her career by getting coworker fired for deliberately sabotaging her promotion, office split because the coworker’s a single mom of 3: 'Being a single mother does not give you a free pass'

Isabella Penn

Mom spends son's college tuition money, promises to pay him back as long as he doesn't tell dad: ‘For four years I thanked him for the money while I took out loans’

Bar Mor Hazut

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 15, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

40-year-old stepmother asks 18-year-old to babysit 9-year-old stepbrother during her own father's memorial service: 'You lost a husband of 5 years. I lost the man who raised me my entire life. You do the math'

Brad Dickson

Family expects 34-year-old daughter to become mom's caretaker since she's the only girl among four siblings, daughter stands up for herself: ‘I have my own life’

Bar Mor Hazut

Dad flips out when wife refuses to babysit 11, 7, and 6-year-old stepsons so he can attend bachelor party: 'The kids are terrors, so babysitting does not come cheap'

Ally Perry

“You won’t be grandma to any future kids of mine”: Entitled stepmother gets in fight with husband’s family at his 60th birthday, his 24-year-old daughter puts her in her place

Briana Viser

'Things went off the rails': 50-year-old woman loses her entire pension and savings to a scam artist, then turns to son for financial support, his wife refuses to help her

Bar Mor Hazut

'I really don't know her or her kids': Father tries to force his 17-year-old son to accept his new step siblings after years of reminders that he is a parental burden, teen gives him a wedding ultimatum

Jesse Kessenheimer

Siblings refuse to hand over portions of their inheritance to sister in need after her husband plans to sell their late mother's house and pocket the profit: ‘[He] wouldn't hear us out’

Lana DeGaetano

Mom of 3 shocked after husband says no to 10-year anniversary date because mother-in-law was too busy to babysit, then spends the day with her instead: 'Then I had to juggle word and parenting'

Isabella Penn

'Parents didn't lift a finger': Oblivious parents let their kid disrupt an all-ages brewery with an annoying bar instrument, then the bartender insists they take it home as payback

Jesse Kessenheimer

17-year-old clashes with mother for not allowing her to "no-call no-show" to her volunteer job among other irresponsible behavior: 'We let her throw a house party recently where it was supposed to be 25 people and at least 100 kids came'

Brad Dickson