parenting

16-year-old eats half of 14-year-old cousin's $140 birthday cake before the party, doesn't get invited back the next year, mom refuses to step in: ‘[The cake] cost me around $140’

Brad Dickson

6-year-old wrongfully accused of stealing neighbor’s bike, strict father makes him apologize anyway for ‘refusing to obey,’ mother steps in: “You want to punish him for telling the truth?”

Briana Viser

High-earning dad angers wife after missing birthday dinner prepared by her, their 6-year-old, and 3-year-old: 'I make 750k and that takes up a lot of my time'

Ally Perry

‘I loved hearing someone finally call them on it’: 15-year-old son refuses to defend parents from favoritism allegations after years of being treated as second-best to his 17-year-old brother

Lana DeGaetano

26-year-old daughter cuts off family after 20+ years of parental favoritism toward her 34-year-old half-sister: ‘My parents [are] not going to change’

Lana DeGaetano

“Boys will be boys”: 32-year-old mom scolds friend's toddler when she catches him not playing nicely with her daughter, his mom snaps at her for “parenting” her child

Ely Bulnes

Immature father punishes his 4-year-old son for being “mean” to him by refusing to play with him, wife freaks out over his childish parenting: “[My wife] is into ‘gentle’ parenting”

Briana Viser

Family member orders ancestry kit as a gift for the family, leads Irish mom to discover her dad isn't her biological father: ‘Turns out she has no Irish DNA’

Bar Mor Hazut

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (May 6, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

We shouldn’t be seeing kids on social media, even those ones

JR Atkinson

47-year-old father asks son to cosign $500k loan, but refuses son's demands to make him sole beneficiary on father's insurance policy in return: [He] called me a greedy brat’

Lana DeGaetano

Boyfriend moves mother-in-law's expensive birthday cake away from 2-year-old nephew who was sticking his hands into it, prompts massive tantrum from the toddler: 'Everyone glared at me like I was evil and rushed to placate the kid'

Emmy Pratt

Mom plays favorites with her identical twin daughter's late sister, then the 24-year-old sets the lies straight after her mother paints her as the ‘evil twin’ in front of her future in-laws: ‘[Mom] pretends she was an angel who lit up our lives’

Jesse Kessenheimer

42-year-old mom refuses to dogsit brother's elderly dog, he returns the "favor" by being unavailable to babysit for her: "I ended up having to send her to a pet hotel"

Ely Bulnes

Entitled mother of 4 throws tantrum over PTA board seat, loudly protests selection of a stay-at-home mom, and insists on wild accusations: ‘This one lady who was not happy with me, no one paid her any attention’

Etai Eshet

40-year-old Stepmother refuses to pay 20-year-old stepdaughter's college rent despite paying for her own 19-year-old daughter's rent and being married to the stepdaughter's father for 12-years: 'My husband has no idea I'm paying my daughter's rent'

Brad Dickson