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20+ Teachers share their most unhinged Gen Alpha student stories that still keep them up at night: 'Several of them can't tell time... on a digital clock'

Isabella Penn

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New stepmother demands 17-year-old babysit her children because his father said he would if they married: 'My relationship with his wife and her kids doesn't exist really, and I know that [makes her mad] but she was his choice, not mine'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old tells mother that he doesn't like his 17-year-old stepsister or consider her to be family, parents retaliate: 'I accept her presence, but never felt close to her and never bonded with her'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled cousin expects software engineer relative to drop their Christmas Day plans and set up two new PCs he purchased for his daughters: ‘I haven't joined them for Christmas since’

Lana DeGaetano

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'Someone is going to get seriously hurt': New neighbor's 5 small children constantly hang out in homeowner's front yard and driveway, parents refuse to tell them to stop despite the glaring safety hazard their actions pose

Lana DeGaetano

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Update: Parents ask 30-year-old to donate $15,000 that she didn't know she had to her 22-year-old brother for his schooling: 'I’d turned down opportunities because no help was available. I just wish I’d known'

Brad Dickson

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Brother and sister-in-law demand 17-year-old sister watch their 2-month-old newborn baby for a full day so they can attend a wedding: 'My brother was visibly annoyed and started ranting to my family '

Brad Dickson

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25-year-old brother's girlfriend tries to kick 15-year-old out of her own house that the siblings together, saying they want their own "space": 'I reminded her that I own half of this “space” so she’s delusional if she thinks she can just get rid of me'

Brad Dickson

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Neighbor wants stay at home mother to watch her 3 and 5-year-old kids for free, won't take no for an answer: ' She told me I was selfish'

Brad Dickson

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New 38-year-old stepmother demands 26-year-old "stepdaughter" give her and her 7 and 6-year-old halfsisters the jewels she inherited from her mother: 'She said all of her kids [should] get something of my mom's stuff'

Brad Dickson

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"Unschooling" aunt hires 23-year-old niece to tutor her homeschooled 13 and 9-year-old children, doesn't like it when she's told that she's the problem: ‘She started crying, said she didn’t feel very supported, and hung up’

Brad Dickson

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'Her kid comes running, but I'm faster’: Little girl follows her mom's orders, helping herself to a stranger's cookies without permission, then the entitled Mom gets taught a lesson in good parenting

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Employee allows coworker with wheelchair user son to use his RV when needed, coworker flips out when he tells her she can't use the RV for her upcoming vacation: ‘Since then... I've been excluded from team lunches and group chats’

Lana DeGaetano

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16-year-old gets chastised for not helping her dad's new girlfriend, who is pregnant, after the woman was unkind to her: 'She's extra bitter that dad's so focused on making our relationship work instead of on her'

Brad Dickson

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‘You'd think she was begging for charity’: Entitled cousin expects woman to give them her graduation gifts during the post-grad celebration, woman's aunt enables the entitled behavior further

Lana DeGaetano

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Adopted child learns that their birth mother has left them a large sum of inheritance money, adopted siblings demand an equal cut despite having no relation: 'They want to split it three ways!'

Brad Dickson

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