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Unemployed dad demands his 17 and 19-year-old sons stop eating so healthy and start eating more ramen and cereal: 'I don't believe I should ask them to do that because both of those things tend to be unhealthy'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom refuses to pick up her ex-husband's 8-year-old affair baby from school while picking up her 8-year-old son: 'My ex's daughter was there until 7 because I refused to pick her up'

Emmy Pratt

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Contrarian claims 'Trunk or Treating' style of Halloween is superior to traditional Trick or Treating: 'I love not having knocks all hours of the night from kids asking for candy.'

Emmy Pratt

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16-year-old quits photography class after his parents force his 14-year-old sister and 12-year-old brother to join it too: 'I'm not allowed to do anything with friends or go anywhere without my siblings'

Emmy Pratt

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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'

Emmy Pratt

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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'

Emmy Pratt

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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'

Emmy Pratt

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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'

Emmy Pratt

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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'

JR Atkinson

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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?'

Emmy Pratt

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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?'

Emmy Pratt

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