Parenting Fail

Mom Forces 17-Year-Old Daughter and 16-Year-Old Son to Catch 1 Fish Before She Buys Them Cars: 'When They Were Little, They Wouldn't Even Try Fishing Because it Looked Hard.'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents force 21-year-old to send texts 2x per day saying 'good morning' and 'goodnight'— 21-year-old protests

JR Atkinson

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16-year-old destroys 15-year-old stepsister's $6000 purse, parents force her to pay it back and she flips out

JR Atkinson

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Mom uses daughter's Klarna account to pay for vacations she can't afford, ruining her credit score: 'You need to put your foot down'

JR Atkinson

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Mom says she's selling college freshman's furniture and turning their room into a gym, tells them to sleep on the floor during school breaks

JR Atkinson

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Parents deny 26-year-old daughter the same advantages her younger siblings get, refuse to hear her out when she complains

JR Atkinson

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Mom stands by her adult daughters' independence and pushes back on her husband's new rule to limit or charge her daughter's boyfriend's frequent stays in their basement apartment: 'He wants to limit to 3 days a week or charge him $350 a month'

Etai Eshet

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20-year-old son loses $10k of family's money in cryptocurrency, dad sells his car and entire family calls him a 'monster'

JR Atkinson

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53-year-old stepdad demands his 19-year-old stepdaughter and her boyfriend contribute financially after they overstayed a 30-day arrangement by 4 months, while he struggles to pay rent

Etai Eshet

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Longtime family friend invites a fatherless 19-year-old Morgan to Father’s Day dinner with his wife and teenage kids, gets screamed at by mom who abandoned her: ‘Am I wrong for letting not-my-daughter celebrate Father's Day with me?'

Etai Eshet

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Teen refuses to give up room for grandparents when they're in town, family calls them out: 'I love my grandma very much but I don’t want it to cost my own comfort'

JR Atkinson

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31-year-old son refuses to eat with sheltered mom who asks for 'ferret sauce' at a Mexican restaurant: 'I think she comes off as ignorant and I get so embarrassed'

JR Atkinson

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23-year-old finds out that stepmother turned her bedroom into a dog room, failed to tell her for months: 'My boxes were in the garage'

JR Atkinson

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Mom calls out other mom for not keeping track of her 14-year-old daughter despite telling her she'd be in touch

JR Atkinson

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Helicopter mom tries to con college RA into opening up her kid's door while they are in class, kid tells her off: ‘[It] was mortifying’

Lana DeGaetano

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Man's mother insists she ‘inspect’ his girlfriend's apartment before he moves in with her, girlfriend refuses: ‘His mom sees my home as a space she gets veto power over’

Lana DeGaetano

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