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Parents pressure 24-year-old lawyer to live at home and take care of her 4-year-old brother indefinitely: 'I feel obligated to rush home and help my parents.'

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22-year-old refuses to babysit her mom's boyfriend's 15-year-old son while they're on a cruise because he has screamed at her and stolen from her: 'Her boyfriend called me yesterday saying I'm making things difficult and that it's just 10 days.'

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14-year-old girl can't read above a 1st grade level, can't understand why literacy is necessary in life: 'When I’m an adult, I’ll just know how to read'

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18-year-old cries after her dad made her childhood bedroom into a guest room as soon as she left for college: 'If I knew he was going to pack up my things and get rid of my room I wouldn't have gone to this college.'

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Parents debate whether rise in competitive youth sports has led to decline in children's physical fitness: 'I hear they're doing tryouts for 3rd graders now'

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Mom complains that her 2-year-old can't properly use an iPad yet: 'My 4-year-old has always used a tablet for games and occasional tv time and has never problems'

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Dad scolds aunt for buying her 12-year-old niece 2 pairs of glasses and contact lenses because he can't afford them for her or his 4 stepchildren: 'He’s sick of me and Haley rubbing her stuff in her step-siblings' faces.'

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16-year-old constantly steals her 19-year-old sister's possessions, parents buy her whatever she wants to stop her from stealing: 'My parents fund her Starbucks, skincare, clothes, and everything else'

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Mother of the bride asks bride to pick her up from the airport on her wedding day: 'This is a major inconvenience not a minor one'

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Mom reads her 16-year-old daughter's diary and kicks her out because she wrote that she doesn't see her stepdad as family: 'He's just the guy my mom is married to.'

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40-year-old mom refuses to let her friend's thieving 10-year-old daughter stay at her house unsupervised, friend freaks out: 'Is there anything she could have stolen that’s worth the price of a friendship?'

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Mom tells 3.5-year-old daughter that she looks super ugly after she refused to change out of her cowboy boots for school: 'Is it wrong to tell her how ugly her outfit looked?'

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'That's tacky': Parents request guests at their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party give cash instead of presents

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14-year-old begs 20-year-old sister who has 3 kids under 3 to not have a 4th baby: 'She doesn't clean up after kids. She leaves diapers everywhere.'

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Boy mom forces son's 17-year-old girlfriend of 2.5 years to do chores while she's at their house, sits between the couple on the couch while watching movies: 'I'm pretty sure she adores me!!'

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Mom uses $15K from her 21-year-old son's college fund to pay for her 24-year-old daughter's wedding venue: 'He told us college was a scam for sheep and that he would be a millionaire before his friends even graduated'

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Aunt harvests all produce from her niece's garden to take home, her niece's mother gave her the green light to do it: ‘Who needs enemies when you have family’

Aunt harvests all produce from her niece's garden to take home, her niece's mother gave her the green light to do it: ‘Who needs enemies when you have family’

Managers write up employee for being burnt out after losing two family members, face payback when they tell him to stop talking about burnout

Managers write up employee for being burnt out after losing two family members, face payback when they tell him to stop talking about burnout

Stepmom sells 16-year-old stepson's music box that his late mother gave him, in order to pay for his half-siblings' medicine: 'Someone bought it off eBay for $2K'

Stepmom sells 16-year-old stepson's music box that his late mother gave him, in order to pay for his half-siblings' medicine: 'Someone bought it off eBay for $2K'

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Boss decreases employee's pay from $22 to $20/hr without reason, employee threatens to quit: 'Work your wage, they want less effort'

Boss decreases employee's pay from $22 to $20/hr without reason, employee threatens to quit: 'Work your wage, they want less effort'

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (October 25, 2025)

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