teenagers

Middle-aged passenger tries to claim a 5'5" teen’s aisle seat, gets shut down by staff, and ends up stuck in the row behind her for 11 hours: ‘The flight attendant told him his ticket was for the seat behind me’

Etai Eshet

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Dad promises 14-year-old son a Japan trip if he maintains a 3.5 GPA and saves $3000 by the time he's 18, reneges on offer after he maintains a 3.7 GPA and saves $5000: 'Let's do a road trip somewhere in the US instead.'

Emmy Pratt

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47-year-old father of 14-year-old refuses to take son on art museum trip because 39-year-old stepmother disagrees: 'My wife tried to tell him why we were saving the money'

Remy Millisky

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17-year-old's absentee father strictly forbids them from attending a concert, but the teen laughs and denies his authority: 'Now he wants to suddenly parent me during his twice-yearly visits?'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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17-year-old goes on a girls trip with besties, only to discover her father having a romantic dinner with another woman: '[He] begged me not to tell my mom'

Ben Weiss

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16-year-old promises to give her mom 25% of her earnings if she ever became a published author, mom holds her to that promise 6 years later: 'She threatened to sue me over it if I ever did get published.'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents scold 15 and 19-year-old kids for only getting 2 tubs of ice cream for family ice cream night: 'My mom calls me selfish because apparently getting 2 tubs meant that I only wanted me and my brother to eat and have them just watch.'

Emmy Pratt

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43-year-old mom insists on wearing pimple patches to her sister-in-laws wedding to show her 13-year-old daughter that it's okay to have acne: 'She has struggled with cystic acne her whole teenage and adult life.'

Emmy Pratt

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It’s ‘Glee’ All Over Again: How Aging Teenagers Became the Real Villains of ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

Ben Weiss

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19-year-old shames mother for having 3 children by 3 different members of the same family and for marrying his aunt: 'My mother had a child with my grandfather, then she had a thing with my uncle.'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad forces his 5 sons to play sports, gets angry when his 8-year-old prefers studying gemstones over playing baseball: 'He told me he doesn't want to play sports and started crying.'

Emmy Pratt

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Doctor aunt tells 16-year-old niece not to become a pediatrician, her sister reprimands her for 'discouraging' her daughter's practical career path: 'Just telling the truth'

JR Atkinson

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Single mom resents 17-year-old daughter for going on a school trip and leaving her alone for her 60th birthday: 'She hasn’t acknowledged the fact that I will be completely alone for my birthday.'

Emmy Pratt

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Introverted wife kicks out husband and 2 kids every day for an hour so she can have 'me time,' husband thinks it's unreasonable: 'I just want to relax and watch TV without being sent out of my own house'

JR Atkinson

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14-year-old yells at his 15-year-old brother for throwing away all the food in the house that has sugar in it because he's going on a diet: 'I need orange juice in the morning for my iron supplements.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom opens up a credit card in 20-year-old daughter's name 'as a birthday gift,' gets defensive when daughter calls her out: 'You didn't ruin a surprise gift, you outed that she's stolen your credit'

JR Atkinson

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