parenting

13-year-old steals mom’s phone to bypass parental controls and sneakily use Instagram and Snapchat, she considers taking his phone until high school: ‘He resents us for not allowing him to have social media’

Ely Bulnes

Woman ‘Sandra’ demands paternity test when best friend’s newborn baby looks just like her fiancé ‘Andre,’ ruining their friendship and causing wedding to be called off

Briana Viser

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