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The Funniest Parenting Posts of This Week

Ely Bulnes

Dad lets sister take 4-month-old to run errands, gets offended when wife panics: 'She's joked about wanting to throw water in his face'

Ally Perry

27-year-old daughter demands dad pay her rent or move out after his “two-week stay” at her basement hit the five-month mark: ‘I feel like a landlord to someone who never signed anything’

Bar Mor Hazut

Parent stalls returning a bento box that a teacher accidentally sent home with her kid in hopes she could keep it: ‘She was playing games with me’

Lana DeGaetano

Mom and Dads Spill Harsh Truths About Parenting That No One Talks About

Ely Bulnes

'My job is demanding, I can’t be her nurse': Work-from-home professional refuses to be a full-time caretaker for her 67-year-old mother-in-law after hip surgery, forcing her in-laws to step up

Jesse Kessenheimer

Mom and stepdad force 18-year-old to pay £150 a month in rent, forbid her from watching TV without permission or eating takeout in front of her younger brother: 'I'm not allowed to lie down on the couch'

Emmy Pratt

Frustrated father deducts funds from 19-year-old son's monthly allowance, after he skips required online portion of driver's ed, costing parents $715, further causing family’s new insurance to cost $13 more monthly: 'I'm invoking a natural consequence'

Emma Saven

Father wears the same shirt every year on 17-year-old daughter's birthday, finds out man who made the shirt also wore it to his daughter's birth and they both lost their dads at 16, sparking wholesome connection: 'Who started cutting onions'

JR Atkinson

19-year-old raises family car insurance by refusing to complete online driver's ed, dad docks his allowance by $13 a month: 'I'm invoking a natural consequence'

Ally Perry

28-year-old refuses to drive 90 minutes to drop her homeschooled 15-year-old sister off at her 18-year-old boyfriend's house on her birthday: 'At her age, I wasn’t even allowed to go on a date with my boyfriend.'

Emmy Pratt

Father demands daughter fund his 78-year-old sister's lavish lifestyle after he's gone, cuts her out of the will when she says no: 'She has children that should be doing that'

Isabella Penn

Mother's several-week stay at 26-year-old son's apartment turns into a 4-month residency, he refuses to let her stay any longer: ‘I'm starting to feel like a guest in my own home’

Lana DeGaetano

'I am the coach's WIFE': Entitled soccer mom tries to hijack a dad's tent and cooler because they came unprepared, but he denies her and enjoys his 6-year-old's game in peace

Jesse Kessenheimer

Modern parents weigh in on how to manage picky eaters : 'You don't have to eat it all, but you have to try'

Ely Bulnes

Son refuses to tell mom when he's off work after she demands he do housework on his days off, he claims he does enough by paying rent: ‘I might as well quit my job’

Bar Mor Hazut