A&E’s Parent Wars returns with another round of parenting triumphs and fails Tuesday night at 10:30 PM ET. The half-hour series, now in its first season, mines the internet for snapshots of family life both hilarious and harrowing.
Parenting Under Pressure (Season 1, Episode 10) gathers a few particularly intense moments, starting with a Mississippi mom confronting a new mother about her crying baby—a situation that quickly goes sideways. In a lighter corner, we see a mom stepping in to protect her daughter during a grocery store altercation. And in an Ohio-set story that’s bound to ratchet up anxiety in anyone who’s ever traveled with an infant, we watch as a mother endures a terrifying ordeal when her baby is thrown from a moving vehicle.
Parent Wars has carved its niche by spotlighting the kind of footage most families hope never ends up online. In curating clips that are often extreme, it aims to generate discussion about the pressure cooker of modern parenting—though the show also seems quite happy to just revel in the car-crash factor.
Parent Wars airs Tuesday at 10:32 PM ET on A&E.
