parenting

Mom pressures 18-year-old daughter to give her 20-year-old brother $2700 to cover his rent: 'I don’t believe I’ll see that money again'

Emmy Pratt

Mother refuses to force her son to pick up and drop off his stepsister at camp after her ex-husband insists he do so: 'He told me as a mom I should want our son to be kind'

Lana DeGaetano

Woman lets newly-single sister stay with her rent-free, she sleeps until 1pm and get angry when sister makes her 7 and 4-year-olds breakfast: 'Wake up and take care of your [...] kids'

JR Atkinson

44-year-old mom goes no contact with cruel bio dad and stepmom, worries about depriving 6-year-old son of grandparents: 'He keeps asking about his grandpa'

Ally Perry

Mom of 3 pressures husband into having a 4th baby after they'd previously agreed to stop at 3: 'I wouldn’t have a strong connection to the baby because I didn’t want another baby in the first place'

Emmy Pratt

‘Is it normal for moms to be jealous of their own daughters like this?’: Daughter makes $500 after working for her father and her mother loses it, falsely claiming that he never gives her any money

Lana DeGaetano

30-year-old man refuses to loan $15,000 to 33-year-old cousin's budding food truck business, family tries to guilt-trip him due to his success: "I thought you'd be more generous than that"

Ely Bulnes

Neighborhood mom gets blamed for "loading kids up on sugar" at her 6-year-old's birthday party, despite no one telling her food preferences: "I can't read minds"

Briana Viser

The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (July 1, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

Parents berate mom for feeding their kids cake and soda at her son's 6th birthday party: 'If you don’t stay at the party or say anything about dietary restrictions, can you really be upset afterward?'

Emmy Pratt

Parents let 3 rowdy sons interrupt couple's first dance at their wedding, let them play with fireworks unsupervised: 'Love that she was taking photos of them interrupting the first dance instead of parenting'

JR Atkinson

26-year-old daughter refuses to go on the family beach house vacation after 23-year-old stepsister demands to get the bigger room and dad agrees: ‘He said I was being territorial’

Bar Mor Hazut

Brother and sister-in-law name their baby an identical "matching" name to couple's already-born baby, forcing them to change their baby's name: 'We'd pretend to keep the original name until there was zero risk of SIL changing my nephew's name'

Brad Dickson

Stepmother stops 18-year-old stepdaughter from using one of her cars after daughter's car breaks down, insisting she needs to get a job instead: 'She is now a lazy adult'

Bar Mor Hazut

67-year-old grandma wears two piece bikini to 19-year-old granddaughter's birthday party, 44-year-old daughter scolds her for not dressing her age despite teen's approval: "[It's] inappropriate for a woman [your] age to wear that"

Ely Bulnes

26-year-old's aunt demands that he give 19-year-old cousin his old car for free, she refuses to pay him due to his success: "She's always had this weird resentment toward me for getting out of our small town and doing well"

Ely Bulnes