The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 17, 2024)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Sep 17, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

When you dig through as many texts from bad parents as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. It's genuinely devastating how many parents would rather cling to the idea that they're right about everything and their kids are wrong about everything than have a productive conversation with them. They would rather never see their kids again than do the uncomfortable task of examining their past behavior and its effects on their loved ones. Sometimes, it seems like a disproportionate amount of adult children go no contact with their parents, but if they're entirely unwilling to extend the smallest amount of empathy to their child, why would they want to continue a relationship with them? If they were in an unstable situation growing up and nobody is willing to acknowledge it, there's no reason for an adult child to want to introduce their kids to their grandparents who made their lives miserable. If you know this situation all too well, these parenting texts are ready for you. 

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  • 01
    Unsolicited "Advice"
    via u/variazioni
  • 02
    3:43 PM Can I give you some advice without you getting upset at me? It depends Is it about my physical appearance Just something I think you could wear that would help No thank you + Ok. Better bra so don't sag You got it anyway. Don't care I'm your Mom I'm going to give you advice no matter if you like it or not. Get an underwire, you look thinner with a better bra Bye Don't ever question why we have a bad relationship again. Just Aa
    via u/variazioni
  • 03
    ye Don't ever question why we have a bad relationship again. Just scroll back to these messages you sent me. I would tell you how reading this made me feel, but I don't think you care at all. I won't be responding anymore. Blah blah blah sick of you being like this. All my friends can talk to their kids, but I have to tip toe. I walk on eggshells always worried I might offend you, I'm tired of it Do you think Grandma ever held back sayinganything to me? Hell no. And you know what it was just som
    via u/variazioni
  • 04
    I stopped living with her when I was 10 because of neglect. Stayed in contact while living with my grandparents. Nowadays all she talks about is how fat she is because "if I say it first then no one else can". She has issues with that severely and obviously can't help but push it onto me, too. I'm so exhausted. Idk if this is insane or not. I just needed to get this off my chest. P.S. I wear an already expensive bra made for ... the well endowed already. Not much else I can do.
    via u/variazioni
  • 05
    My mom is obsessed with my sister's ex
    via u/izziedays
  • 06
    4:15 57 I'm just getting back I went out When will you be home Hey Today 3:25 PM hey mom, I just wanted to tell you that it really hurt me that you not only talked to but also went to see him. You can think he's a good person but at the end of the day he really did a lot of damage to me and I hope you can see why I wouldn't want you to associate with him or even follow each other on Instagram anymore. If you do continue to talk or anything with him that's up to you I can't make you do anything b
    via u/izziedays
  • 07
    4:15 Kina and caring. I also choose to try to forgive and see the good in people too. You may think you were the only person hurting and he was the only one causing pain. That is usually not the case. Relationships are hard. can hurt you and still have some redeeming qualities. He can also be feeling pain from how things went wrong too. He can be wishing to make amends for hurting you as that is the kind and loving thing to do. And he can want to ease the pain he also felt. How much pain and suf
    via u/izziedays
  • 08
    My sister got cheated on a couple months ago and our mom is still talking to him like he's the victim. She even met up with him for lunch last week. Sister respectfully asked that our mom does not have a friendship with her ex and our mom went off the deep end.
    via u/izziedays
  • 09
    My moms reaction to me calling out of work for a migraine
    via u/moon_crawlers_
  • 10
    + 9:32 ◄ Discord L M Mom> Today 7:28 AM i'm going to call out today i just woke up with a really bad migraine i feel sick to my stomach and i can't move without my head pounding don't get mad at me i'm mad at myself for being in this much pain i already took ibuprofen it's doing nothing Don't do it Today 9:29 AM If you're in that much pain and you need to go to the hospital Don't call a lot of work at seven in the morning when you don't have to be there for four hours you just threw away so much
    via u/moon_crawlers_
  • 11
    Don't ask me for including figure it out yourself. I'm all done. Another job you're gonna lose because lying in bed feels better how does this even affect you??? why do you care?? i'm not going to lose my job. Don't even talk to me + Message Delivered
    via u/moon_crawlers_
  • 12
    A bit more context: I was scheduled for 11 AM, messaged my boss at 7:30 AM to call out which I feel is just respectful of my bosses time. Texted my mom around the same time so she knew that I wasn't going in, she called me and woke me up at 9:30 AM to yell at me and I hung up on her then checked my texts and saw these. I get migraines occasionally, I know how to handle them. Also! i've never lost a job so idk what she's on about with that, i've quit, but i've never been fired. (this woman has be
    via u/moon_crawlers_
  • 13
    my moms reaction to my sister not wanting to do exactly what my mom wanted to do
    via u/StelliformSouls
  • 14
    5:52 PM Im sorry I don't understand why you get upset about pictures and I removed them now I don't think you understand how annoying it is to have you tell me what to do. I asked if I could bring someone along and you said no. Because you wanted time with me. Well you didn't take time with me alone at all except when we went to the rehome store. You treat me like a child talking down to me and it's very frustrating. I just came over again to apologize and make up but you are so stubborn you don
    via u/StelliformSouls
  • 15
    StelliformSouls OP context: my mom posted pictures of my sister on facebook-- sister has made it clear many times that shes uncomfortable with that and doesn't want that. my mom blew up because my sister didnt want to go hiking with my mom when she went to visit her and when my sister asked to compromise and do something else together my mom stormed out.
    via u/StelliformSouls
  • 16
    I wanted to get an opinion on this
    via u/chewmypeen
  • 17
    L 4:04 David > 444 01 Depends on what you'd consider kept That's up to you. How bad to you want the job. Can you please stop commenting on my hair? You need to stop making your hair 'your thing'. I am trying to teach you that getting a job is more important than keeping your hair long. If you want this job, you will get it trimmed or tie it back so that way you don't look disheveled. When did I ever say I wouldn't have it tied back? You're making assumptions that I never even implied in the firs
    via u/chewmypeen
  • 18
    く 4:05 45% David > Remember what we talked about how if there are two people being interviewed they're equally qualified equally well spoken and equally dress nice. If one is more than the other, they're going to hire the other person. Again, you're whining. I told you I gave up the fight about having your haircut and no longer applies to me. You're letting your feelings get hurt because I'm trying to help you get hired Alex, grow up. You have never given up the fight about getting my hair cut,
    via u/chewmypeen
  • 19
    4:05 David > 454 0 Doing what I need to do to get the job involves being confident, well dressed, well spoken and being qualified, the length of my hair has nothing to do with it That's the response of a child. People will judge you how you look that includes your hair, stop whining, and just think about it. I'm not whining when seemingly every day of my life you find some way to make fun of, degrade or belittle my physical appearance. This has been happening since my early teens and to be perfe
    via u/chewmypeen
  • 20
    For context I've always kept my hair long due to being transgender as well as feeling more comfortable about the length my hair. My dad seems to think that I look unkempt despite taking care of it daily. I should also mention he himself has said he's jealous of my hair. He also used to "punish" me to the point that my other dad had to threaten divorce to get it to stop. I was just wondering if I overreacted or it was justified to say what I said to him
    via u/chewmypeen

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