parenting

15+ Deliciously downfallen cakes that tasted much better than they looked: 'I forgot to put SUGAR in my cake. It's one of the worst things I've ever tasted'

Remy Millisky

‘She was always one of the villains in my eyes’: 25-year-old daughter refuses to empathize with half-siblings and bio dad's mistress-turned-wife after he cheats again

Lana DeGaetano

14-year-old son stands up to mom after he discovers she talks to her friends about his personal issues, mom refuses to stop: ‘I can tell my friends whatever I want’

Bar Mor Hazut

Dad refuses to bring his 10-year-old daughter to his brother's wedding despite the family's pleas, doesn't bother to RSVP: '[This is] about how my daughter wishes to spend her summer'

Brad Dickson

'This caused a huge argument': Bride pushes back after her mother offers to pay for the wedding, then demands 50% of the gifts in return

Isabella Penn

Parents deny 13-year-old daughter the right to go to private school because she isn't good at STEM like her 15-year-old sister is: 'We are not going to be sending her there'

Ben Weiss

'I learned from the best, Dad': 18-year-old daughter brings a 38-year-old fake date to the family gathering to make a point about her dad's girlfriend being 25 years younger, revealing her family's hypocrisy in the process

Jesse Kessenheimer

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 29, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

Parents refuse to let 17-year-old go on school Marine Biology trip after telling her to refuse $45 "handout" for the fee from her teacher: 'They have been calling me ungrateful and spoiled'

Brad Dickson

'As a mother of a child with celiac disease, I am shocked': Parents drops off 9-year-old with gluten allergy at an acquaintance's house with no food instructions, won't reimburse them for food cost

JR Atkinson

Recap Podcasters Haven’t Moved On, But Neither Have We

Emmy Pratt

Dad withdraws 15-year-old daughter from competitive gymnastics against her mom's wishes because she doesn't want to be in the gym 14 hours a week and her body hurts: 'She thinks my daughter will be become lazy and want to hang out with friends'

Emmy Pratt

4 sisters organize a Disneyland trip with their children and deliberately exclude 34-year-old Amanda, their 5th sister: ‘I reminded her of all her trips to Hawaii, San Diego, Colorado, and the Mall of America in Minnesota. She never invited us’

Etai Eshet

Parents spoil 27-year-old daughter's proposal surprise by telling her the date, she puts them on a strict "information diet" before the wedding so they won't spill any more secrets: “I don't want him knowing anything”

Ely Bulnes

Greedy 16-year-old eats half of 14-year-old cousin's birthday cake before he blows out the candles, mom accuses sister of body shaming when he isn't invited the next year: “The world is not going to excuse his behavior”

Ely Bulnes

‘They called me money hungry’: Son is made sole beneficiary on late parents' stocks, refuses to sell them to pay off brother's share of the inheritance, family gets involved

Bar Mor Hazut