parents

Impatient parents balk at waiting 35 minutes at the airport, busy daughter tells them to get a taxi instead and refuses to pick them up: 'If you had been nice you would be home already'

Ely Bulnes

Mom demands 7-year-old son apologize to their cat after yelling at it for stealing his food from his plate, dad claims she took it too far: ‘I’m teaching him empathy’

Bar Mor Hazut

Teacher confiscates 13-year-old diabetic student's glucose monitor because it went off during class, signaling a health crisis: ‘No electronics, period’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents demand 16-year-old daughter allow her 15-year-old sister to use her prom dress, daughter insists she should be the one to decide: 'It's my dress, I bought it'

Bar Mor Hazut

Single dad prioritizes 7-year-old son's birthday over a date night with his fiancée, breaks off engagement in response to her entitled reaction: 'She'll forever be my second priority'

Ely Bulnes

Mom blames 17-year-old daughter for her divorce from teen's stepfather when the teen rejects her stepfather as a father, despite him being in her life since she was 10 years old: 'He told mom he couldn't live without being a parent'

Brad Dickson

New mom wakes from a nap to find her newborn missing because her mother-in-law snuck in to “help” with the baby, MIL forced to return her emergencies-only key: 'She can't just let herself in'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Family pressures relative who works in e-commerce company to misuse their work access to grant them favors, relative refuses to help: 'Following their demands would be a career-ending move'

Bar Mor Hazut

Parents praise their oldest golden child and ostracize their ‘black sheep’ son for years: ‘I'm chasing the shadow of my family's approval’

Lana DeGaetano

Single child daughter refuses to take over family's gas station business, sets her sights on lawschool instead to her parents' dismay: '[They] told me that I'm throwing away an opportunity and disrespecting their sacrifices'

Ely Bulnes

Woman receives an angry email from her sister-in-law, detailing her 7-year-old daughter's food mess that she left under their dining room table earlier that evening: ‘I… was quite shocked and offended by the intensity of judgment and shaming’

Lana DeGaetano

Mom sells $20k worth of son's baseball cards without telling him, he cuts her off until she pays him back: 'She offered me $2,000 to “make it even,” which felt like a slap in the face'

JR Atkinson

Father refuses to allow ex-wife's new husband to take his 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son out alone, citing child safety risks: ‘To me he's just a stranger’

Lana DeGaetano

Stepmom invites herself to mother-son dinner with 15-year-old stepson's football team, biomom wants her to stay away: 'This is going to be really really hard for you'

JR Atkinson

26-year-old sister refuses to give $20,000 of her inheritance to the oldest sibling to bankroll her exorbitant wedding, family feud ensues over their late father's will: ‘She said Dad would want me to ‘share’'

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (September 20, 2025)

Elna McHilderson