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‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (December 20, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Remote employee makes $100K working only 5-7 hours a week after automating most of his work tasks: 'Is it smart to ride out a low-stress, high-flexibility job?'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom defends 15-year-old daughter's right to drive around with her friends at night, dad is infuriated at his wife's permissive attitude: 'She left around 7:45 and I asked she be home at 10'

JR Atkinson

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Stepmom refuses to buy any Christmas presents for her 10-year-old stepdaughter because her husband is lazy: 'If he wants his daughter to have gifts, he must buy them himself.'

Emmy Pratt

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Cheating father declares he's bringing the other woman to family Christmas, 28-year-old daughter hosting refuses and cancels the festivities: ‘[My] dad turned my home into a test of loyalty…’

Elna McHilderson

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16-year-old decides to live with her dad because her mom forced her to share a bedroom with her 7 and 10-year-old half sisters: 'My mom told me I'm destroying so many of my relationships with my childish brain.'

Emmy Pratt

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Stay-at-home mom of a 11 and 14-year-old complains that her husband making $130K gives her only $1000 of 'fun money' every month: 'If you feel poor, maybe it's time for you to get a job.'

Emmy Pratt

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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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Dad horrified by his family's tech addiction changes wifi password and says it's ‘down,’ family has the most wholesome offline weekend: ‘Everyone needed the break, even if they didn’t realize it.'

Elna McHilderson

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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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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad shames mom for going to a concert when their 10-year-old daughter is sick during his custody time: 'He's saying I'm being selfish and I should skip my trip so he doesn't catch whatever she has.'

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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Son and daughter-in-law announce they will spend Christmas Eve with his parents and Christmas Day with her parents indefinitely; his parents beg for them to alternate every year: 'The implication is that we will never host them on Christmas Day.'

Emmy Pratt

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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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