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'Please don't put your toes in my spaghetti': A Glorious Thread of Anecdotes from Tired Toddler Moms That Perfectly Sum Up the Terrible Twos

Ely Bulnes

‘Over a missed WhatsApp message’: Woman accidentally forgets to wish her 4-year-old niece a happy birthday on the family group chat, gets snubbed by the girl's mom, then fights fire with fire at the next family event

Jesse Kessenheimer

58-year-old dad demands that daughter give back $15,000 “no strings attached” gift for a down payment, family split when she refuses: ‘If we give it back we lose the house and thousands in fees’

Ely Bulnes

17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

Brad Dickson

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (August 14, 2025)

JR Atkinson

Polite family tries to get through to noisy neighbor who keeps ignoring the apartment's sound curfew, ignores them and gets berated by intimidating neighbor instead: ‘Can’t say she wasn't warned…'

Elna McHilderson

32-year-old mom refuses to care for her sick 68-year-old mother-in-law after she tried to get her son to divorce her: 'She told my husband multiple times that he deserves better and that I was too fragile to be a good wife and mother'

Emmy Pratt

‘It is not my responsibility to fund someone else's child’: Self-supporting woman refuses to make monthly financial contributions to her brother and his pregnant wife, her mother ostracizes her as a result

Lana DeGaetano

Woman's fiancé sells her late father's Fender guitar behind her back while on a "minimalism kick," she calls off the wedding when he refuses to get it back: 'I told everyone that this guitar was off-limits'

Ely Bulnes

Late Aunt Bea leaves her entire estate to her beloved dog, waging an inheritance battle between her niece and nephew, who both cared for the pooch in his elder years: ‘He ditched the dog’

Jesse Kessenheimer

34-year-old mom forbids 13-year-old daughter from cutting her waist-length blonde hair to impress her 14-year-old crush: 'She called me an overbearing mom'

Emmy Pratt

Parents pressure 32-year-old daughter to fix the rift between her 36-year-old estranged identical twin sisters: 'They said I'm the person who could bring them together'

Emmy Pratt

28-year-old freeloader brother expects successful sibling to let him live rent-free in their apartment while they're abroad, then gets their parents to pressure them, too: ‘He acts like it's already decided’

Lana DeGaetano

'It's beginning to exhaust me': Aunt babysits her sister's 3 and 6-year-old 3x per week, then sets healthy boundaries after realizing her family is taking advantage of her; chaos ensues

Jesse Kessenheimer

24 Parenting Memes That Accurately Describe a Day in the Life of the Modern Mom

Ely Bulnes

Random kind person shows struggling mom that there is kindness in the world, gives her the courage to leave an unhealthy situation: ‘[I] left feeling relieved as I took in a breath of fresh air outside.’

Elna McHilderson