Of the few checks on the unrelenting sociopathy of teens, one of the most effective is the tattling little brother. The power of the squealer was recently demonstrated in Birmingham, Alabama, where it allowed a woman to publicly apologize to the people her noxious spawn had wronged.
"All I want is a slushie." Like a pint-sized Mike Muir, that's what 4-year-old Annabelle Ridgeway told a Philadelphia city bus driver early Friday morning. Unfortunately, thanks to the selfless actions of him and other annoyingly helpful strangers, Annabelle never fulfilled her icy desire.
Damn. Eighty-one-year-old Tony Trapani just met his son for the first time this week in Grand Rapids, Mich. He only just discovered he even had a son after cleaning out a filing cabinet left behind by his late wife, whom he claims hid the letter from him for more than 50 years.
A five-year-old U.K. kid who missed a friend's birthday party at a ski and snowboard slope over Christmas break received a bill for $24 from the birthday boy's family. The invoice was slipped into Alex Nash's backpack at nursery school and brought home to his parents, who couldn't believe it wasn't a joke.
Joe Riquelme built the popular iPhone video editing app Videoshop, and his project has been so successful that he was able to surprise his parents this Christmas by paying off their mortgage.
When Yolanda Bogert's teenage son came out to her as transgender last week, she decided to show her love and support by correcting the official record.
There's a story involving my mother and a pink snowsuit that surfaces every time I'm on the precipice of dropping serious dough on an ostentatious piece of clothing. It goes like this: One day when I was seven, Mom and I were trawling Sears when I stumbled upon the perfect pink snowsuit. I don't remember what was so…
A Pittsburgh-area father has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after his daughters were crushed and killed by a dresser on the 4th of July. David Beatty, 28, allegedly waited 10-15 minutes before checking on two-year-old Brooklyn and three-year-old Ryeley after hearing a crash.
A story ran in the Washington Post yesterday that is equal parts cringeworthy and baffling. A Virginia man, out of the desire to prove to his children that he'd "go to the ends of the earth to make their wishes and dreams come true," claimed land along the Sudanese border to fulfill his daughter's wish to become a…
Police arrested Sarah Anne Markham of Casselberry, Fla. today after she reportedly refused to have her newborn child eat or be treated with non-vegan food or medicine. The child, dehydrated and losing weight, was eventually taken to the hospital and placed into state custody. Markham was charged by police with child…
Do you have a kid? Is your kid in high school? There's a pretty good chance they're smoking weed at least occasionally — and if they haven't yet, they're likely to try it eventually. You lit up (just once, and didn't even enjoy it that much) back in your day, right?
When he was 8, a boy from Kentucky promised his dad that he would buy him a '57 Chevy Bel-Air for his 57th birthday. His father had grown up as one of seven children in a poor family. Although he talked about his dream car often, he never expected to own one. Watch what happened when he realized that his son, now an…
Parents at a Vancouver, Wash. elementary school are up in arms over a third grade teacher who allegedly made students pay in Monopoly money to use the bathroom. Two students told their parents they wet their pants because they couldn't afford a trip to go pee.
“Is this Matt the Hat?” A pet-name from my childhood.
My wife and I dizzily coughed flu sputum at each other this weekend, taking turns holding our sick baby son on our laps, lugging his tons of accoutrements cross-country as he screamed through delayed wintry flights, and all I could think was: Pity the monied urban childless! How may we improve their lots?
In what must be alarming news for clueless parents, it turns out that letting your children binge eat Flamin' Hot Cheetos can cause gastritis. A snack that burns tongues, dyes fingers red, and makes it look like you're shitting blood is harmful? No way, not possible.
On Wednesday, NY Mag's Daily Intel ran a short post titled “Media Elites Are Creating Twitter Accounts for Their Babies,” profiling the Twitter accounts of somewhat famous people’s babies and the terrible monster-parents who created them (accounts and babies). As you expect might from a piece about parents branding…
Like most of us, Bernard Bey knows the root of his problems: his parents. Unlike most of us, however, the 32-year-old Brooklyn resident is seeking compensation for the damage his parents caused; earlier this month, Bey filed a self-written lawsuit in a Brooklyn court, accusing his parents of physical and emotional…
Two-time Father of the Bride Steve Martin became a first-time father of a human being in early December when his wife, Anne Stringfield, 41, gave birth to a baby. His rep just got around to confirming the news to People today. Steve Martin is 67.
There comes a time in every former child's life when enough earnings have him or her playing Santa to those who once did (if you in fact celebrated Christmas; if you didn't, you know what I'm talking about). Parents are often kinda wack, which means you could float on mediocrity, closing your eyes, spinning and buying…
