Parenting FAILS

Homeowner vigorously defends his lawn from neighbor's 9-year-old, who is digging holes in his yard while looking for “buried treasure,” parents get defensive and refuse to step in: ‘This is my yard. You can’t dig here’

Brad Dickson

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16-year-old eats half of 14-year-old cousin's $140 birthday cake before the party, doesn't get invited back the next year, mom refuses to step in: ‘[The cake] cost me around $140’

Brad Dickson

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‘I loved hearing someone finally call them on it’: 15-year-old son refuses to defend parents from favoritism allegations after years of being treated as second-best to his 17-year-old brother

Lana DeGaetano

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Mom refuses to control her 8 and 5-year-old children in a movie theater, ignoring other theater-goers' protests: 'They’re kids. I can’t keep them still. If you don’t like it, you can leave'

Brad Dickson

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18-year-old, oldest of 3 siblings, calls out her mom and 16-year-old brother for "parentifying" her and forcing her to be a de facto parent to him and their 12-year-old sister: 'My mom laughed'

Brad Dickson

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Parents deny 13-year-old daughter the right to go to private school because she isn't good at STEM like her 15-year-old sister is: 'We are not going to be sending her there'

Ben Weiss

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5-year-old guest takes birthday boy nephew's new toy, uncle takes it back despite parents' protests: 'I took the toy back and returned it to [my nephew]'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled Mom never let her son eat fish growing up, he gets even when she pays him a visit to Japan: 'All the food was fish, and mum just had to eat it'

Ben Weiss

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29-year-old mother tells off 26-year-old "fun auntie" sister for correcting her in front of her 6-year-old and feeding him candy before dinner

Brad Dickson

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'Parents didn't lift a finger': Oblivious parents let their kid disrupt an all-ages brewery with an annoying bar instrument, then the bartender insists they take it home as payback

Jesse Kessenheimer

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17-year-old clashes with mother for not allowing her to "no-call no-show" to her volunteer job among other irresponsible behavior: 'We let her throw a house party recently where it was supposed to be 25 people and at least 100 kids came'

Brad Dickson

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Parents leave 16-year-old home on her birthday weekend to study while they take her 13-year-old brother on a ski trip: 'You have too much homework'

Brad Dickson

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34-year-old single dad hurt and grounds 16-year-old daughter after overhearing her confession that she "manipulates" him: 'She told her friends about how easy it is [...] so that she can get anything that she wants from me'

Brad Dickson

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40-year-old father and teacher leaves 15-year-old daughter's musical early, family refuses to go to the musical at the school where he works: ‘He had not bothered to sit through his own daughter's [performance]’

Brad Dickson

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Parents get mad at mother for giving 13-year-old girl's softball team pizza and "junk food" at a sleepover: 'It’s 15 girls, so I figured it was easiest because these [foods] feed a lot of children'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old refuses to babysit 27-year-old sister's 3 children aged 6, 4, and 2 years old after sister says jokes that she's “basically a live-in nanny”: ‘I was so mad that I decided right then and there that I was done’

Brad Dickson

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