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25+ of the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week (December 5, 2025)

JR Atkinson

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Parents forbid grandparents from giving their kids Christmas gifts after years of them giving their 4-year-old daughter more than their 3-year-old son: 'She gets merch from the Disney Store, he gets Dollar Tree toys.'

Emmy Pratt

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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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Entitled mom refuses to let her son go to friend's birthday party after being told she can't bring the entire family to the event: ‘Either we all go or none of us go’

Bar Mor Hazut

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1-year-old says first word to mom's coworker when she leaves the room, she wonders if she should tell her: 'It might be nothing'

Ally Perry

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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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39-year-old insults girlfriend's preschool aged daughter during weekend trip, gets offended when they leave the trip early: 'You have an ugly face'

Ally Perry

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Dad leaves his fortune to his daughter 5 years before he passes, leaving nothing to his son, who barely saw him for 12 years: 'My brother still thinks he is going to inherit a fortune and is already planning how to spend it.'

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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Son writes a poem about his late mom for school, then discovers his teacher sent it to his stepmom thinking it's about her, stepmom demands he apologize: ‘She got her hopes up’

Bar Mor Hazut

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17-year-old adopted son discovers parents set up college fund for 14-year-old sister, but not for him, he confronts them after they refuse to talk to guidance counselor: ‘That's none of your business’

Bar Mor Hazut

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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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‘If I pay for it, it's mine’: Daughter refuses to let mom read her therapy homework after mom claims she's entitled to it since she pays for therapy, mom reads it anyway

Bar Mor Hazut

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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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