‘Girl, what? I’m not a daycare’: Mom dumps her 9 and 6-year-old at the neighbor’s house unannounced, expecting them to babysit for free because they have no kids and ‘no real responsibilities’

Moms and dads sometimes rely on their community to help raise their kids. Through neighborhood parks, friendly grannies own the street, and pop up lemonade stands, there are tons of ways to get your kiddo out into the community, but the mom in this next story had another idea about what her community could provide …
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41-year-old brother brags about his 7-figure salary, then tries to force his 29-year-old younger sister to split a $700 fancy restaurant bill when he visits: ‘He offered to take me as a gift’

This younger sister was tired of hearing her brother brag about his businessy paycheck every time the family got together, but when he came to visit her and offered to take her out to a fancy restaurant, she obliged, knowing he could afford it.  Whenever a new fancy restaurant opens up in town, the biggest …
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Babysitter left with her friend’s 4-year-old for days after the entitled mom bails on her pickup time, she ends up getting sent the bill afterwards: ‘She definitely owes me’

Babysitting implies an end time. When your friend asks—no, begs—you to watch their tyrannical toddler for a few hours, you might only oblige because of the finite nature of the favor. If all of a sudden, your friend decided to cosplay as a responsibility-free, single person for a few days, you might start to rethink …
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‘She said it wasn’t good enough’: Family weekend takes a turn for the worse when an spoiled 20-year-old scoffs at a thoughtful second-hand gift from her cousin

Good kids are taught at an early age that when you receive a gift from someone, you say, «Thank you.»  If it’s an ugly sweater from your sister or a knitted blanket that smells like grandma’s smoky, 70s-styled house, it’s good manners to be a grateful gift receiver, even if you hate it. Conceal your …
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Aunt funds her 10-year-old niece’s $2000 dance camp, the girl bails at the last minute and mom pockets the 75% refund: ‘She already got the money and spent it’

Being an aunt is all the fun of being a parent without as much responsibility. I’m a proud aunt of 4 kiddos and I lavish my affections on them whenever I get the chance. Because I’m saving so much money by not having children of my own, I have a whole fund dedicated to spoiling …
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Grandparents introduce son’s affair partner as ‘the mother of our precious grandson,’ son flips out that she didn’t correct them even though it’s true: ‘I just didn’t want to cause a scene or embarrass anyone’

Life is long, complicated, and never quite goes how you expect it to. No one as a kid plans to have an affair with their married coworker, bear their child, and then have to take that baby to a family barbecue with their affair partner and his husband, but hey… life happens. The best you …
Seguir leyendo Grandparents introduce son’s affair partner as ‘the mother of our precious grandson,’ son flips out that she didn’t correct them even though it’s true: ‘I just didn’t want to cause a scene or embarrass anyone’

21 Funniest Parenting Memes of the Week for Funny Witty Moms and Dads Doing the Best They Can (May 24, 2025)

Hello mommy and daddy, are you kind of sick of being called mommy and daddy these days? Yeah, it’s crazy how the meaning of those names change so much the second you have kids. And especially the second your kids starts to talk. Now, it almost starts to feel like the alarm sound you were …
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American godmother refuses to help Vietnamese godchild apply to American universities, but helps her younger sister with worse grades: ‘[She used] her husband’s connection to ask for scholarship’

Life isn’t always fair, but you don’t always want to know that, especially when you’re young. You also don’t want to let that notion get in the way of fighting injustice wherever you see it. You don’t have to accept your conditions as normal, you can (and should) push for better. Especially when injustice exists …
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‘I didn’t want to fund a dream built on TikTok’: Gen X dad threatens to stop paying for his 19-year-old daughter’s college education after finding out she lied about her ‘Content Creation’ major, sparks debate online about modern parenting

30 years ago, if you told an established, educated businessman that employees could be sitting at home in their pajama pants, hopping on conference calls with their CEO, and raking in $200k per year, they probably would have laughed in your face. Over the last several decades, success—and the path to reach it—has changed drastically …
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Entitled sister goes ‘no contact’ with her parents then demands 50% of the inheritance years later, her older brother refuses to share: ‘I stepped up as the only child’

Is a person entitled to their parents’ wealth simply because they’re related? That’s a question that people left out of the family will have been asking themselves for generations, yet there’s still no clear answer. Alas, when it comes to financial matters entangled with family drama, the only clarity can be found in the bottom …
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