Sometimes a video doesn’t need a full explanation to communicate exactly how a parent is feeling — just a look, a tone, and a caption that says it all. That’s the case with a video from @ohheybrittanyb. Speaking directly to the camera, the creator addresses “boy moms” specifically before launching into an expression of frustration … Read more

@theeetinymama opens her video with a flat, unimpressed “ASMR nope. Nope. You better hope you better not” — the sound of a mom who woke up already knowing what kind of day she was in for. “I woke up this morning to not one, but two germs,” she narrates, “and they were calling me Mommy.” … Read more

Not even two years old, and @tripletmamasadie’s triplets have already found something worth going to war over: an empty cereal box. “One thing I didn’t expect to happen so early,” she narrates over the clip, “was seeing how often my triplets would fight over just absolutely random objects.” This particular skirmish starts small. Onyx, in … Read more

@mingunfiltered isn’t her godson’s mother. She’s careful to say that at the top of her video: “I’m not an autism mom, I’m an autism godmother.” But by the end of the night she’s describing, she and her sister had decided their family, not his mother, needed to be the ones raising him. It’s 3 a.m. … Read more

@porchchats marked the one-year anniversary of a day she says changed her relationship with her mother permanently — the day, she explains on camera, “my mother made the decision to put my daughter in the front seat of her car with no seatbelt.” At the time, she and her mom were already low-contact. Her husband … Read more

“Hi, my name is Serenity, and I co-parent with my child’s father,” @renwithoutcontext begins, in what she frames as just another entry in an ongoing series about her co-parenting arrangement. “On today’s episode, I thought I would give you guys just another little silly thing that has happened in the three or four years that … Read more

“The inevitable happened,” @comedy_barbie1 says at the start of her video. “My mom reached out to me again.” For anyone new to her page, she explains the backstory plainly: she’s been about four years no-contact with her mother, and every so often she finds the courage to share pieces of what that’s actually been like. … Read more

Two years ago, @alice_the_gsp’s 16-year-old daughter had a baby. If you’ve followed her account for a while, you already know what happened next: the family turned their front living room into a private space for the new mom and baby, away from the household’s dogs. Now, in the video, she explains that grandson is almost … Read more

“My daughter lives in the basement of our home,” @countryboujeee begins, walking into the frame with the energy of someone bracing herself. “And by golly, I’ve been telling that girl to clean her room all summer long.” What she finds down there is, in her words, a shock. The tour is thorough. Under the steps: … Read more

“Where’d she get this from? Cause she’s not supposed to eat this,” @jessdidthat jokes at the top of her video, before settling into what’s become a familiar genre online: filming the entire process of packing her daughter Maya’s school lunch, one item at a time. The lunch is built around Maya’s specific preferences, not a … Read more