parenting

'Please don't put your toes in my spaghetti': A Glorious Thread of Anecdotes from Tired Toddler Moms That Perfectly Sum Up the Terrible Twos

Ely Bulnes

‘Over a missed WhatsApp message’: Woman accidentally forgets to wish her 4-year-old niece a happy birthday on the family group chat, gets snubbed by the girl's mom, then fights fire with fire at the next family event

Jesse Kessenheimer

58-year-old dad demands that daughter give back $15,000 “no strings attached” gift for a down payment, family split when she refuses: ‘If we give it back we lose the house and thousands in fees’

Ely Bulnes

17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

Brad Dickson

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (August 14, 2025)

JR Atkinson

Polite family tries to get through to noisy neighbor who keeps ignoring the apartment's sound curfew, ignores them and gets berated by intimidating neighbor instead: ‘Can’t say she wasn't warned…'

Elna McHilderson

17-year-old warns he will move out after mom and stepdad demand they act more like a family: 'My stepfather would act like I was doing something wrong by existing'

Ally Perry

‘It is not my responsibility to fund someone else's child’: Self-supporting woman refuses to make monthly financial contributions to her brother and his pregnant wife, her mother ostracizes her as a result

Lana DeGaetano

32-year-old mom of a 3-month-old asks mother-in-law to stop constantly watching baby monitor footage of her and her baby: 'She'll text things like, "I would’ve picked him up sooner, but you’re the mama!"'

Emmy Pratt

Full-time student discovered her mother used Apple Pay to steal $4,200 of her tuition savings for rent and beauty appointments, leaving daughter unable to make a required school payment: 'Keeps saying she raised me and I owe her'

Emma Saven

Late Aunt Bea leaves her entire estate to her beloved dog, waging an inheritance battle between her niece and nephew, who both cared for the pooch in his elder years: ‘He ditched the dog’

Jesse Kessenheimer

34-year-old mom forbids 13-year-old daughter from cutting her waist-length blonde hair to impress her 14-year-old crush: 'She called me an overbearing mom'

Emmy Pratt

Mom protests when ex's girlfriend of 5 months insists on attending 5-year-old son's teacher meet and greet: 'She doesn’t want people to think him and I are together'

Ally Perry

Parents pressure 32-year-old daughter to fix the rift between her 36-year-old estranged identical twin sisters: 'They said I'm the person who could bring them together'

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old tells dad she handing in her notice at work after he demands $700 a month from her salary: 'He said I owe it to him to contribute'

Ally Perry

28-year-old freeloader brother expects successful sibling to let him live rent-free in their apartment while they're abroad, then gets their parents to pressure them, too: ‘He acts like it's already decided’

Lana DeGaetano