The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (October 1, 2024)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Oct 1, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Anonymous comments are known to bring out the worst in people. If you are scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or Reddit, you shouldn't read the comments thoroughly and take them to heart. People will say awful things not because they believe them but to get a rise from their fellow commenters. Some trolls believe what they're saying, using hyperbolic language to communicate it and get people talking, but just because they use rhetoric effectively doesn't mean they are worth your energy. 

It's easy to dismiss anonymous trolls, but what about the ones who are parts of your family? This is a mere theory, but I think that texting inspires a similar effect that commenting does. It's unbelievably easy to type something up and send it without ever saying it out loud and, in turn, regret your words, whether you said them or not. Some of these parenting texts should have been left in the drafts.

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  • 01
    How I ruined thanksgiving by calling out racism. (First pic is from my dad. The rest are from my stepmother.)
    via u/izzidora
  • 02
    Monday, September 30 Happy dead Indian day! 10:17 a.m. 10:22 a.m. Truth and reconciliation day 10:22 a.m. I have no words 10:35 a.m.
    via u/izzidora
  • 03
    3:22 Mass text 12 ✓ I'll have potatoes and saucy meat de all 41% MMS 2:31 p.m. MMS We are unable to make it 3:08 p.m. Oh darn! Sorry to hear that MMS 3:22 p.m. MMS 3:09 p.m. Well Dad starting off the morning wishing me a happy "Dead Indian Day" kinda put me off having dinner with the dude. Just being honest. Sorry guys. Love y'all w
    via u/izzidora
  • 04
    4:02 all 39%. Mass text 12 ✓ MMS 3:22 p.m. dinner with the dude. Just being honest. Sorry guys. Love y'all I am sorry to hear that MMS 3:32 p.m. Replied to a message: Maybe you should talk to dad in private. He's not on this group chat MMS 4:02 p.m. MMS 3:59 p.m. I literally have no interest. I said so much in my text. Just being honest with my siblings
    via u/izzidora
  • 05
    6:26 24/7 < Mass text 12 < tnis group cnat MMS 4:02 p.m. 3:59 p.m. I literally have no interest. I said so much in my text. Just being honest with my siblings We all know dad's sick, twisted or sarcastic humour.. take from this what you will. We'll either see you or not. Just remember we love you all MMS 6:17 p.m. Fair. Maybe I'm just not understanding the joke. What makes that so funny. MMS 6:20 p.m. Explain like I'm 5. I'll wait. It's not my thing. Ask your dad. MMS 6:21 p.m.
    via u/izzidora
  • 06
    9:41 33% 9:33 p.m., Sep 30 What you're doing is so wrong on so many levels. If you're having an issue with dad...then talk to him. Why would you need to bring in all your "siblings 11 into your conversation with your dad?? Do you need others to jump on your bandwagon to agree with you that he's an ? I do not understand your motive is at all. And I have certainly not told him about any of this texting. Deal with this with him. It's not my thing. Nor your siblings
    via u/izzidora
  • 07
    9:41 33% 9:41 p.m., Sep 30 My siblings, some of which have offered me support and thanked me in confidence, deserve to know exactly why I won't be seeing them at family events. The fact that, even after this horrific interaction, you are choosing to defend this action and vilify me, speaks volumes. There is no room for hate in my circle. And I'm not covering for gross behavior.
    via u/izzidora
  • 08
    9:59 Wow!!! There was never any hate at anytime .... nothing but something social unacceptable humor. Just like any man with no legs called Bob! Nothing meant with malice. Somewhere you have lost all sense of joking around and gotten way too sensitive about all 31% stuff that no one can control 9:51 p.m. 9:52 p.m. Talk to your dad about this! Not me. It's not my | 9:52 p.m. Then why are you texting 9:53 p.m. me about it at 10pm sis Cause I think you need a reality check miss 9:56 p.m. Great L 9:
    via u/izzidora
  • 09
    My mother's reaction to me getting a job. SMS
    via u/CretinCrowley
  • 10
    3:59 Σ Mother > Oh you need to be with y he needs his momma LTE 284 I want to be more than anything in the whole world but I don't want to be homeless either. We are going to drown if we can't get something going soon.
    via u/CretinCrowley
  • 11
    We are struggling. My fiancé lost his job. I genuinely thought she'd be happy for me. I was wrong. It was an opportunity to make me feel worse.
    via u/CretinCrowley
  • 12
    My dad passed away and his birthday is on the 28th... I just happened to get 2 new piercings. Here's my mom's responses
    via u/ccc15650
  • 13
    mother > weird how i still look just as beautiful I'm too upset.. Go disappoint dad and me..I'm done with all the in this I up world this world is perfectly fine You can say what you want about my father... At the end of the day- He accepted me just as I am. And would have never talked to me like that
    via u/ccc15650
  • 14
    6:351 HA HA Such a nice memorial to your Father Add Sticker Copy Translate More... ?
    via u/ccc15650
  • 15
    My mother was very upset that I got a tattoo. I'm 31 year old. SMS
    via u/ThatGirlPreps
  • 16
    3 I'm not happy. I saw what you did. Ok. Friendly reminder I'm an adult in my 30s who can make decisions about her own body that don't affect anybody else I'll send you thoughts and prayers. I'm gonna need them. I despise it. And why a stork? It's a crane You can despise all you want but an aspect of emotional maturity is keeping your thoughts to yourself at time. grandmother Don't let see it. Why the arm, I'll never understand. I feel sick Oh no! "Doctor, my adult daughter made a decision about
    via u/ThatGirlPreps
  • 17
    A stork??? 1:24 AM It's a crane Your dad would be so disappointed.
    via u/ThatGirlPreps
  • 18
    Again I ask what were you hoping to do by telling me that my dead dad would be "so disappointed"? My guess is that you were hoping to hurt my feelings. I felt hurt and guess I wanted you to hurt too
    via u/ThatGirlPreps
  • 19
    She threatened me a few months ago and then out of nowhere showered me with "love" about a few weeks ago ⚫
    via u/AKC1019
  • 20
    My lunatic of a biological mother a few months ago after I didn't give her the reaction she wanted:
    via u/AKC1019
  • 21
    ■■ AT&T LTE 7:12 PM 19% 0 Biohazardous Spawn Point+20 > My dear, I hate to tell you this but are you forgetting? I know where you live. What are you going to do when I'm up in your bedroom? Staring you in these questions and saying these things? Have driven all of the way out. They're out of my way before. Have you forgotten? And unfortunately for you... I have the key that will unlock your bedroom..... So You can either be staring me face-to-face. Eyeball, to eyeball talking or you can just be
    via u/AKC1019
  • 22
    Also her out of nowhere:
    via u/AKC1019
  • 23
    AT&T LTE 7:11 PM 19% < Biohazardous Spawn Point+ All of this just came across my Google memories from 2017.... you Always remember re BRAVER than you BELIEVE STRONGER than you SEEM SMARTER than you THINK & LOVED more than you know We were living in & you got promoted to the next grade. & this picture is what I wanted to tell u but I didn't think it would actually soak in at the + Text Message G
    via u/AKC1019
  • 24
    AT&T LTE 7:11 PM 19% 0 00 Biohazardous Spawn Point+++ We were living in & you got promoted to the next grade. & this picture is what I wanted to tell u but I didn't think it would actually soak in at the time. But as I did then I still feel this way. All photos I've blurred All pics of younger me + Text Message
    via u/AKC1019
  • 25
    AT&T LTE 7:12 PM 19% 00 Biohazardous Spawn Point++ > It wasn't the awards but the smile on your face that made me so happy + Text Message
    via u/AKC1019
  • 26
    AT&T LTE 7:12 PM 19% 00 Biohazardous Spawn Point++ You were so proud of yourself & so was i?? .... & I'm just as proud & even more of you me now. Just think that was only 7 years ago. & now you're grown & finished school. I just wanted to let you know I'm very proud still... of the young adult you have become & I hope you keep that spark & drive about you for always. ?? I love you minime ??
    via u/AKC1019
  • 27
    Mom has always been weirdly obsessed with my SMS life.
    via u/ladyfox_9
  • 28
    Your e-credit number is Please can you get online now to see if it works While I have her on the line I am in the middle of something I can't get online right now Craigslist. Quit having and get online not craigslist O A Text Message ↑
    via u/ladyfox_9
  • 29
    This is from a few years ago. I'd just gotten married and moved out of state, and literally any time I didn't immediately drop what I was doing to talk to my mom, or in this case do something with a plane ticket because I wasn't home, she would assume I was having . This was just one of many times she said this. She also used to ask me who I was sleeping with and when I was doing it before I was married, and assumed I was sleeping with multiple partners when I was dating my husband. Not that it
    via u/ladyfox_9

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