Parenting FAILS

Successful adopted sister refuses to co-sign her unemployed grad-student younger sister's mortgage, despite their parents insisting she needs a house: 'My mom threatened to cut off any future financial help (like wedding money) if I don’t help right now'

Emmy Pratt

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Stepdad tells 15-year-old stepson that if he doesn't let him adopt him, he'll be the reason he gets divorced from his mother: 'He said he's tired of being dismissed as a dad, and if I don't accept him, then he's done'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents make daughter buy family's groceries since age 12, dad refuses to contribute and weaponizes incompetence when forced to: 'Your parents are terrible. Both of them'

JR Atkinson

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'You don't shame or hide things that should be celebrated': Mom lashes out when daughter-in-law announces pregnancy in front of her other, favorite daughter-in-law who has had trouble conceiving

JR Atkinson

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'She is free to go to her mother': Stepmom kicks out her entitled 21-year-old stepdaughter after she demands to use her car over Christmas break and throw a New Years Eve party at her house when she has a 2 and 5-year-old

Emmy Pratt

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Mom confronts dad of teenage daughter's boyfriend for breaking up with her daughter 'the wrong way,' dad says her daughter 'isn't special': 'You really need to work on your empathy'

JR Atkinson

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (December 24, 2024)

Emmy Pratt

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Ex-husband scolds the mother of his 3 children for not getting a Christmas present for the 4-year-old daughter that resulted from his affair: 'He took out this dollar store doll and he told me that was all he could afford for his daughter'

Emmy Pratt

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (December 23, 2024)

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'I told her she's a horrible mother': Aunt calls out mom in the family group chat for constantly favoring her 15-year-old juvenile delinquent son over her often-forgotten 13-year-old son

Emmy Pratt

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Woman refuses to babysit sister's 7-year-old and 5-year-old every weekend while their parents go out, sister goes no-contact to punish her: 'She even guilt-tripped me by saying the kids would be disappointed'

JR Atkinson

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Mom asks unemployed 23-year-old son to do 10 hours of housework in exchange for bailing him out of debt, son wants to count the 5 hours he spend attending a concert with her: 'Stop enabling him'

JR Atkinson

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Maternal grandparents ask single dad to let his 9 and 11-year-olds stay with them for Christmas so the kids can bond with their 4-year-old half-sister born to the mother that abandoned them: 'My kids have told them they don't care about their half sister'

Emmy Pratt

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'Mom would just let her cry it out in her nursery alone': 16-year-old comforts her baby sister when she's crying while teething, mom gets angry at her for convincing the baby that she's her mom

Emmy Pratt

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Stepdad helps his 9-year-old stepson buy birthday gifts for his mom after his deadbeat dad forgot, dad takes credit and mom calls stepdad a liar when he tells her the truth: 'She said I was acting like a needy man baby'

Emmy Pratt

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Mother-in-law demands to be in the delivery room when her grandchild is born and to move in to help with the baby, gets upset when daughter-in-law refuses: 'This is your experience, not hers'

JR Atkinson

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