Parenting Fail

Mother calls daughters and stepmom's Parent Trap Halloween costume 'inappropriate,' forbids them from wearing it: 'I'd been in the girls life for 7 years at this point'

JR Atkinson

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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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Entitled grandparents insist that they bring couple's daughter to Disney with them against the couple's wishes, then feed the fire by repeatedly mentioning it in front of the child: ‘Safety is our number one priority’

Lana DeGaetano

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15-year-old acts cruelly toward her stepmother when her father remarries 2 years after her biological mom's passing, her uncle decides to become her legal guardian so she can heal: ‘She's happy to no longer live with her’

Lana DeGaetano

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33-year-old well-off daughter orders expensive steak in front of family who can't afford it, refuses to continue to pick up their checks: 'Every time the bill comes out, everyone is suddenly going to the bathroom'

JR Atkinson

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‘I would not take her spoiled brats anywhere’: Man offers to take sick friend's 8-year-old daughter to Disneyland Paris with his family, his sister thinks her 3 teenagers get a free invitation

Lana DeGaetano

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7-year-old purposefully dumps water on babysitter's $1000 laptop, parents don't offer to replace it: 'I freaked out and told the parents'

JR Atkinson

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‘She tried calling me but I kept walking’: 17-year-old son refuses to miss work and babysit his 3 younger siblings after his father insists his job isn't important, causing his stepmother to miss an appointment

Lana DeGaetano

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52-year-old husband forces wife to cook restrictive meals for his 17-year-old daughter, leaving her kids to only eat what she does: 'My kids are sick of it and so am I'

JR Atkinson

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17-year-old son stops doing chores and refuses to be free babysitter for his 8 siblings after parents announce their having their ninth: 'I protested'

Isabella Penn

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Parents praise their oldest golden child and ostracize their ‘black sheep’ son for years: ‘I'm chasing the shadow of my family's approval’

Lana DeGaetano

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Woman receives an angry email from her sister-in-law, detailing her 7-year-old daughter's food mess that she left under their dining room table earlier that evening: ‘I… was quite shocked and offended by the intensity of judgment and shaming’

Lana DeGaetano

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Mom sells $20k worth of son's baseball cards without telling him, he cuts her off until she pays him back: 'She offered me $2,000 to “make it even,” which felt like a slap in the face'

JR Atkinson

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Stepmom invites herself to mother-son dinner with 15-year-old stepson's football team, biomom wants her to stay away: 'This is going to be really really hard for you'

JR Atkinson

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'I am perhaps being petty, but I don't want to give him the money': Stepdad refuses to contribute to stepson's college fund despite funding his 3 biokids, stepson flips out

JR Atkinson

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Husband and his family try to guilt his pregnant wife into bringing their 4-year-old daughter to soccer practice every Saturday morning, despite the wife's busy schedule and chronic illness: ‘I’m at my personal capacity’

Lana DeGaetano

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