Parenting FAILS

Family forgets 18-year-old daughter's birthday, quickly purchase a cake at 11pm and laugh in her face

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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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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Mother tells 18-year-old daughter that her work Christmas party ends at 10 pm, but when she's still out at 10:01 pm, her overly-dependent daughter gets furious, spamming her phone and claiming she broke “promises”: 'She told me that I'm a mother first'

Emma Saven

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Family members expect stay-at-home parent to watch their newborn without asking them first: ‘You want me to give up my free time, but you won't?’

Lana DeGaetano

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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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Mom cries after 16-year-old daughter spills a dollop of sauce on the placemat, gets angry when her daughter laughs at her tears: 'She said I was laughing at her misfortune and I’m creating so much more work for her.'

Emmy Pratt

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Child on airplane demands to use stranger's $1300 gaming device, his mother insists he play with it: 'The kid starts screaming and wakes up everyone'

JR Atkinson

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad forces 15-year-old son to drop out of high school and work for the family business, tells the state he's homeschooling him: 'He was bragging about how our state doesn’t check that an education is actually being provided.'

Emmy Pratt

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Introverted wife kicks out husband and 2 kids every day for an hour so she can have 'me time,' husband thinks it's unreasonable: 'I just want to relax and watch TV without being sent out of my own house'

JR Atkinson

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Husband on work trip in Boston demands wife wake up 3-year-old toddler at 11 PM so he can talk to her, wife refuses: 'No one wants to talk to my 3 year old at 11pm'

JR Atkinson

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18-year-old drops hyphenated last name belonging to his stepfather, his mother tells him she's deeply ashamed of his decision: ‘It was forced on me’

Lana DeGaetano

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'My dad said it would be "just for two weeks". That was 4 months ago': Parents and older brother move their extra stuff into 29-year-old daughter's small house, call her 'selfish' for wanting it gone

JR Atkinson

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Mom opens up a credit card in 20-year-old daughter's name 'as a birthday gift,' gets defensive when daughter calls her out: 'You didn't ruin a surprise gift, you outed that she's stolen your credit'

JR Atkinson

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Dad allows his 7-year-old daughter to stay up all night after she constantly resisted her 10 PM bedtime, cries from exhaustion during her after-school activities: 'My wife questioned my parenting technique.'

Emmy Pratt

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