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Kindergarten teacher has 1 student every year who has never colored, written, or drawn anything with a writing utensil before: 'They have to be explicitly taught how to apply pressure to write on paper.'

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Bride refuses to let 6-year-old flower girl wear her princess dress to her wedding, despite her sister's insistence that her daughter wear the princess dress: 'It's her signature, and she feels more comfortable in it.'

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Dad refuses to play with his son because he read somewhere that spending time with his child will lower his testosterone: 'Let him figure out whether child support lowers his testosterone.'

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Blue-collar dad asks his daughter's 23-year-old boyfriend to loan him $8K to repair his bathroom, daughter discourages him from giving her dad money: 'Frank still owes her 20-year-old brother $2K from a truck repair.'

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Dad refuses to make the school lunches his 3, 5, 7, and 10-year-old kids requested while their mom was out of town on vacation: 'I am not making 4 separate gourmet lunches.'

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Dad didn't feed his 5-month-old baby while Mom was out for hours, claiming it was because she didn't leave instructions: 'Had I not come home, baby wouldn’t have eaten for 5 hours or more.'

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Parents take 60% of their 21-year-old son's paycheck, eat all of his food, and ban him from cooking after 7:45 PM: 'My dad has been unemployed since January.'

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Mom accuses sister of making her and her 5-year-old daughter homeless because she's moving out of their shared apartment in a year: 'She makes $14 an hour.'

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Mom removes pink crayons and markers from her son's school supplies because she thinks that pink is for girls: 'Now that boy is going to have to color a flamingo brick red.'

Kindergarten students, who should be able to manage going to the bathroom independently, especially if they can read and write independently.

Irresponsible parents send their 5-year-old kids to Kindergarten without being potty trained: 'It’s basically learned helplessness. They know mom is going to change them, so they just don’t care.'

A mom is shopping for food with her daughter before criticizing her for her weight.

Mom cruelly tells her daughter that she is skinner than her, fellow grocery shopper puts her in her place: 'No, you're not'

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Entitled iPad mom says her kid's tablet is more important than a traveling employee's job in an attempt to commandeer the occupied charging station at the airport: ‘Whatever you're doing can wait'

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Girlfriend breaks up with her 34-year-old boyfriend because he hasn't seen his daughter since April of 2025: 'He sold himself as a great present dad, and I bought it.'

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Mom forces 19-year-old daughter to use her $7000 of scholarship money to buy her grandma a new trailer home: 'She says she will pay me back, but I don't trust her.'

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Dad refuses to call an ambulance for his 25-year-old son, whose spleen ruptured, because he was at work and ambulances are expensive: 'He looked at me and asked if I could drive myself.'

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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.'

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