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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 8, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old puts presumptuous stepmother in her place after she demands to be called “mom”: 'She said that she's my mom because she's at home with me every day and is married to my dad'

Brad Dickson

20-year-old gets back at father who kicked them out at 18: 'My parents... started apologizing profusely'

Remy Millisky

'I told myself, "All's well that ends well." But nope': Father goes head-to-head with incompetent airline's flight attendants who seat his 4-year-old child alone

Elna McHilderson

Husband’s napping drives sleep-deprived 28-year-old stay-at-home mom to breaking point: ‘I think a nap just ruined my marriage’

Etai Eshet

‘This ring was left to ME’: Sister refuses to give up a precious heirloom ring she inherited from Grandma so that her brother can propose with ‘something sentimental,’ delulu parents side with the Golden Child

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘My dad would be disgusted with what she did’: 17-year-old son refuses to defend his mother against paternal grandparents after she gives his late father's belongings away to her new stepchildren

Lana DeGaetano

'I do more than most fathers': 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out

JR Atkinson

The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 7, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

Eldest brother cuts off his ‘struggling’ siblings after he finds out they've been freeloading for years despite a secret stash of money: ‘[I was] paying for their education, food, and other necessities while working to keep myself afloat’

Jesse Kessenheimer

 “We're not willing to accept that man she calls a husband”: Stepdad alienates stepdaughters from their late father's side of the family, they go no-contact when mom issues ultimatum

Ely Bulnes

22-year-old spurns dad's affair partner at family dinner after she makes Facebook posts exaggerating her role in her life and downplaying her bio mom: "She's rewriting history"

Ely Bulnes

18-year-old sibling set a firm boundary by shutting down relatives after refusing to be her younger brother’s second mom: 'They decided to have a baby, so they should take care of him'

Isabella Penn

25-year-old man claims he’s an “only child” after siblings have no relationship with him, cousin calls his bluff at family party: “You’re childish and a liar”

Briana Viser

'What exactly where they expecting?': Wife kicks out her husband's cousins after she becomes the punchline of an unfunny April Fool's joke, he supports her completely and they break contact with the family

Jesse Kessenheimer

27-year-old birthday girl kicks friend out of her party for bringing along her crying 7-month-old baby: 'Everything was going fine until my friend showed up with her 7-month-old baby'

Brad Dickson