parenting

Mom refuses to let dad of a 7-year-old and 8-month-old twins go on a solo trip without the rest of the family: 'I’m working, we don’t have full time child care, and it’s honestly just a lot with the 3 kids'

Emmy Pratt

20-Parenting Laughs of the Week for the Funniest Mom and Dad (July 19, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

Woman asks friend’s daughter to be her flower girl but doesn’t invite the mom, she says no after bride expects her to wait in the car during the ceremony: 'This is just totally bonkers'

Isabella Penn

'Get over it': Mother of 3-under-3 gets lectured by a childfree neighbor about her screaming babies, gets told she needs to move to another apartment; sparks debate

Jesse Kessenheimer

Teen son refuses to apologize for his ‘part’ in his father missing the birth of his half-brother, who was born while the teen and his dad were having quality bonding time away from his stepmom

Lana DeGaetano

‘Reasonable’ dad throws reason out the window when entitled guy starts yelling at his kids for playing ball, ends up getting the guy fined and removed: ‘Knowing where this was going, I smiled…’

Elna McHilderson

17-year-old uncle raises his baby niece alone until her mom decides to take over, he accidentally reveals the truth to niece years later: ‘Your mom tried to give you away as a baby’

Bar Mor Hazut

22-year-old daughter blocks mother and goes no contact after finding a secret tracking app on her phone, family begs her to forgive mom: "It's not like you were doing anything worth hiding, right?"

Ely Bulnes

37-year-old birthday girl bans vegetarian food from her party, refuses to let sister order herself pizza without meat, driving her to skip the celebration: "She needs to let me live how I like"

Ely Bulnes

Entitled mom expects friend to babysit her kids during a birthday party, friend leaves after an hour of watching the kids alone: ‘I didn't go there to babysit’

Bar Mor Hazut

'This set off a domino effect': Mom bans kids from bringing their expensive toys over step-sibling jealousy, so they choose to live with dad who respects their boundaries

Isabella Penn

'If she moves in, I move out': Bratty sister-in-law "can’t stand the drama" of her roommate, so she demands to stay in her brother's tiny apartment; his wife and mother of their toddler refuses

Jesse Kessenheimer

'Stop calling me 'mom' in the office': Coworker's lets his 6-year-old daughter bombard his colleague with affection in the workplace, so she takes parenting lessons into her own hands to set boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

Stepmother demands custody of her estranged 16-year-old stepson so she can have help babysitting his half-siblings; he refuses: 'She said she raised me for 9 years and should be allowed to 'keep me''

Jesse Kessenheimer

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 17, 2025)

JR Atkinson

‘[He] isn't my dad… I never got to meet my dad’: 17-year-old daughter tells stepdad that he isn't her real father, her mother continually tries to pressure her into having a father-daughter relationship with him

Lana DeGaetano