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"My mom embarrassing herself on FB, assuming everyone thinks the same way as her." —OP
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"I thought my mom would stop searching my room after I went to college over a year ago. Nope." —u/Due-Text7442
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"She will literally be on the couch right next to the back door, and will leave it open from whenever she wakes up to whenever she sleeps. Oh and we live in Texas, and our AC is already wonky. After I sent the first text, she slammed the back door and was throwing things around too." —OP
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"Whenever she thinks I'm out. I never go out unless I'm asked or with family…For context, she called me four times. Wish I remembered to screenshot that before posting" —OP
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"Some unprompted messages about my hair I got from my mom"
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"A pic of the hair in question has been included at the end!" —OP
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"My ex-MIL everyone…" —OP
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"Original comment is my mom, reply is an old coworker. She swore up and down she wouldn't tell anyone and decided to admit to me the day before she told my sister. Not entirely sure she hasn't told anyone else either. She was never name dropped but didn't like the comments saying she was in the wrong. I had literally planned the reveal later in the day despite it being more inconvenient just so my sister could attend to find out with everyone." —OP
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"I receive a set of messages like this from my mother at least bi-weekly…I grew up without a father because he died when I was young, I'm fine about it but because of this I literally have no reason to keep track of Father's Day, so I didn't know…About the school, she's talking about my old high school which I graduated from two years ago, and some teachers briefly helped me with resources on moving out, every so often she threatens to take action against them but I'm not scared about it because I have no relation to that school anymore. With the Uber, when she sends these regular messages she blocks me afterwards to prove a point, and one time I was getting worried since it had been a while since I had heard from her, so I sent her an Uber from McDonalds as a way of making sure she's okay because I didn't know what else to do. I just want a mother who will love me with no guilt or strings attached." —OP
The Cringiest Parenting Texts & Posts of the Week (September 12, 2023)
The internet is cool and all, but man, I am so grateful that Facebook didn't exist while I was coming of age. If it had, my mom definitely would have been an active participant in one of those mommy Facebook groups. When my mom joined the local parent-teacher association when I was in elementary school, I probably saw her around school more often than some of my teachers. I know she was just trying to be an actively present parent, but sometimes it was pretty mortifying. But again, I feel lucky I never had one of those parents who constantly posts embarrassing photos of their kid on social media, or worse, sends insane text messages at all hours of the day for no apparent reason. Thankfully, there are subreddits like r/insaneparents and r/Sh*tMomGroupsSay that can teach us all exactly what not to do when it comes to parenting.
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