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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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Homeschool mom brags about her 4-year-old not knowing her numbers and letters and her 8-year-old who can't read chapter books: 'So sick of this lazy hippie homeschooling mentality'

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25-year-old germaphobe dreaming of motherhood thinks she'll be able to train her future children not to be dirty and gross: 'She thinks if we just work at it, we have a spotless house and a spotless kid.'

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Dad forces 17-year-old son to babysit his fiancée's 3-year-old and 6-month-old, son walks out of the house to avoid the unwanted duty: 'Their mom was home'

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Homeowner refuses to let her homeless 31-year-old brother move into her house after he trashed it and refused to pay bills the first time he lived there: 'I can't handle that stress and damage again.'

Homeowner refuses to let her homeless 31-year-old brother move into her house after he trashed it and refused to pay bills the first time he lived there: 'I can't handle that stress and damage again.'

Man stands up to mooching cousin after she moves to his city and treats his apartment like her own for months: ‘She can’t just treat my home like a hotel’

Man stands up to mooching cousin after she moves to his city and treats his apartment like her own for months: ‘She can’t just treat my home like a hotel’

Recent college graduate gets job while living with parents, protests when they demand most of his income: 'I'm cutting everything I can'

Recent college graduate gets job while living with parents, protests when they demand most of his income: 'I'm cutting everything I can'

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (December 27, 2025)

‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (December 27, 2025)

Job-seeker is 'fired' from a job they applied to but never received an offer for, company advertises the position with a $10k drop in salary: 'I forgot about that whole debacle, but it came back to me'

Job-seeker is 'fired' from a job they applied to but never received an offer for, company advertises the position with a $10k drop in salary: 'I forgot about that whole debacle, but it came back to me'

'Laughter is the best medicine': 23 Laughs That Will Guide You On Your Inner Journey to a Happy Brain (December 27, 2025)

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