parenting

Stepdad refuses to buy 16-year-old stepdaughter $300 shoes and fast food 3 times a week, insists she gets a job to pay for it herself: 'Now my wife and my stepdaughter are upset at me'

Emmy Pratt

Comments

'You should be grateful I raised you': 48-year-old mother lashes out at 18-year-old daughter who complains about having to clean up after everyone, after discovering old food left in the oven by her mother's untidy boyfriend

Emma Saven

Comments

Mom of an incoming University of Arkansas freshman asks fellow parents how to help her daughter remember her key to her dorm: 'Remembering to take a key everywhere she goes is going to be a lot.'

Emmy Pratt

Comments

Accountant advises his parents to exclude his financially incompetent sibling from their will after sibling leaves them stuck with a $100k student loan: ‘My dad started getting harassed by the loan servicer’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

‘All I see is blatant irresponsibility’: Parents of 4 refuse to provide financial assistance to their financially inept son, who deprioritizes household necessities and, instead, unwisely spends his money on things like $600/mo DoorDash orders

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

21-Parenting Laughs This Week for Funny and Sarcastic Moms and Dads (July 26, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

Comments

‘I’ve always been ‘Auntie’… that’s all she ever knew': Investigative 25-year-old unearths proof that her biological mother is her mom's best friend, who helped her parents with their infertility; family drama ensues

Jesse Kessenheimer

Comments

17-year-old girl calls out her mom for ignoring her because she wishes her daughter had been born a boy: 'She'd talk about how she'd love to have a little boy of her own.'

Emmy Pratt

Comments

'They're losing their free help': Aunt and uncle expect their adopted 19-year-old niece to be the unofficial caregiver for troubled foster kids, so she moves out

Jesse Kessenheimer

Comments

Teen saves up cash to take entire family on a trip to Florida, ungrateful mother tries to switch the original vacation plan to a Disney trip: ‘At this point I’m over it because she’s changed hotels 3 times’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

Daughter panics and blames her dad to get out of jury duty, it works: ‘I walked out of that courthouse like I just dropped the hottest mixtape of the year.'

Elna McHilderson

Comments

‘Structured’ older brother hits hard times and moves back in with parents and ‘slacker’ younger brother, wholesome sibling bonding blossoms: ‘He showed up when it actually counted.’

Elna McHilderson

Comments

25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (July 24, 2025)

JR Atkinson

Comments

31-year-old mom of a 4 and 8-year-old tells her 42-year-old husband she doesn't want a 3rd kid because he doesn't take care of the kids they have, he insults her and storms off to his mother's house: 'I have no desire to be a single mom of a 3rd child'

Emmy Pratt

Comments

14-year-old admits to stealing cash from his brother's room for over 2 years, so the brother considers demanding his enabling parents to pay back what he stole in full: ‘It's frustrating to have to hide my own things in my own room’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

Entitled mother threatens to kick out 17-year-old daughter and boasts she will receive 100% of her husband's assets if he passes, daughter begs to differ: ‘Staying silent feels unbearable’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments