parenting

Free-range mom blames a retail worker for their 5-year-old's public meltdown when the employee refuses to let the child rummage in the sharp tools bin behind the counter: 'The joy of retail'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Parents offer 24-year-old son and roommates to move into their rental instead of paying for an apartment, roommate's dad accuses them of overstepping: ‘You're spoiling my kid’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'It's now Wednesday. She still has my car': Golden Child says she'll return her sister's car after 1 hour, ends up bogarting it for 4 days without permission before coercing the family to side with her

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Woman babysits 4-month-old so friend can trick-or-treat with 7-year-old son, returns baby early when she can't stop calling: 'She continues to FaceTime me every 30 minutes to an hour'

Ally Perry

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‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (November 9, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Devoted aunt who regularly babysits her nieces, refuses to help out any longer after her sister starts dropping them off announced, sparking major family drama: 'You’re not their mom. Stop acting like you’re the one making the rule'

Emma Saven

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Dad lets sister take 4-month-old to run errands, gets offended when wife panics: 'She's joked about wanting to throw water in his face'

Ally Perry

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27-year-old daughter demands dad pay her rent or move out after his “two-week stay” at her basement hit the five-month mark: ‘I feel like a landlord to someone who never signed anything’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Parent stalls returning a bento box that a teacher accidentally sent home with her kid in hopes she could keep it: ‘She was playing games with me’

Lana DeGaetano

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'My job is demanding, I can’t be her nurse': Work-from-home professional refuses to be a full-time caretaker for her 67-year-old mother-in-law after hip surgery, forcing her in-laws to step up

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mom and stepdad force 18-year-old to pay £150 a month in rent, forbid her from watching TV without permission or eating takeout in front of her younger brother: 'I'm not allowed to lie down on the couch'

Emmy Pratt

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Father wears the same shirt every year on 17-year-old daughter's birthday, finds out man who made the shirt also wore it to his daughter's birth and they both lost their dads at 16, sparking wholesome connection: 'Who started cutting onions'

JR Atkinson

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19-year-old raises family car insurance by refusing to complete online driver's ed, dad docks his allowance by $13 a month: 'I'm invoking a natural consequence'

Ally Perry

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28-year-old refuses to drive 90 minutes to drop her homeschooled 15-year-old sister off at her 18-year-old boyfriend's house on her birthday: 'At her age, I wasn’t even allowed to go on a date with my boyfriend.'

Emmy Pratt

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Father demands daughter fund his 78-year-old sister's lavish lifestyle after he's gone, cuts her out of the will when she says no: 'She has children that should be doing that'

Isabella Penn

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Mother's several-week stay at 26-year-old son's apartment turns into a 4-month residency, he refuses to let her stay any longer: ‘I'm starting to feel like a guest in my own home’

Lana DeGaetano

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