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‘You’re doing the best you can mom and dad!': Parenting laughs and woes for witty mothers and fathers (October 11, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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19-year-old college student refuses to change her major from Fine Arts to Computer Science despite her parents' insistence: 'If I don’t change my major by next semester, they’ll cut off their financial support.'

Emmy Pratt

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Wife safeguards her home from a freeloading 26-year-old brother-in-law, then her husband insists otherwise, so she leaves him in charge of babysitting the guests: 'He's responsible for cleaning, meals, entertainment, etc.'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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16 and 18-year-old turn against Dad's new wife when she threatens to end the co-operative coparenting rhythm between their bioparents:

Jesse Kessenheimer

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22-year-old daughter refuses to go on family trip, after her family tells her she can bring her girlfriend, and then suddenly uninvites her days before leaving, claiming they wanted it to be “only family”

Emma Saven

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Divorced woman refuses to let her 2 ex-stepchildren stay at her house when her biological daughter does, her ex-husband insists despite the children's rejection of her as a mother figure years ago: ‘[The children] told me I was cruel’

Lana DeGaetano

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Stay-at-home dad refuses to homeschool his 6-year-old daughter because she's failing 1st grade math, despite his wife's insistence: 'I want her to have a “normal” childhood'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom leaves 9-year-old daughter's friend at school despite promising her dad she'd take her home, dad refuses to drive the daughter anywhere ever again: ‘She had to walk home while it was pouring rain’

Bar Mor Hazut

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8-months-pregnant mother calls out entitled grandma at Petting Zoo when she pushes her grandkid ahead of line, teaching her a public lesson: ‘Not sure if it’s my hormones this late in the game or just the audacity that triggered me’

Etai Eshet

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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (October 9, 2025)

JR Atkinson

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Dad pesters his half-unconscious wife with a 104-degree fever, asking her how to get their 4 kids ready for bed: 'I just snapped and told him to figure it out on his own'

Emmy Pratt

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'These kids are being used as a cute front to fund luxuries that parents should be paying for': 5 and 6 year-old kids run lemonade stand every day into the school year, sparking neighbor's concern and suspicion

JR Atkinson

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Mom of 4-month-old leaves home for an hour, husband sends her voice note of the baby crying: 'I thought you would text me if something was wrong'

Ally Perry

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‘It was a family vacation, and they're not my family’: Father refuses to bring his daughter's half-siblings on a family vacation because his ex-partner never includes their daughter in any trips she plans with her husband and kids

Lana DeGaetano

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'I told her if she’s not ready by 7:30, I’ll just leave': 34-year-old aunt becomes chronically late to work after offering to drive her niece to school because her tardy sister doesn't respect her time

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Dad stops paying child support for his 6-year-old daughter when his ex-wife starts using the money for dating, sparking debate in the comments about parental responsibility: ‘Be a man, support your kid’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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