The Wildest Parenting Texts of the Week (November 26, 2024)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Nov 26, 2024 1:00 PM EST

It's Thanksgiving week, and you know what that means! You're going to have to text your parents a lot more than you have any other week in 2024. Thanksgiving can be such a pain because it's such a blip of a holiday. You travel thousands of miles to see family to eat one meal together, and watch a football game. At least during Christmas, you've got that ambiguous week before New Year's to chill out and do nothing. With Thanksgiving, you have all the travel and chaos of Christmas with little of the leisure and payoff, and that's the case even if you get along with your family. 

A lot of people have the combined stress of dealing with dysfunctional family members and making sure a big bird doesn't taste like wet paper towels when taken out of the oven. These parenting texts might be relatable if you need a second to decompress from that stress. 

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  • 01
    [UPDATE] My (35M) mom's new BS for my brother this Thanksgiving now that I went no-contact
    via u/florvas
  • 02
    3:18- 4 156 69 He'll be here but I don't know if he'll leave his room much. He's bummed around the holidays Jerry can come by too but I prefer no dogs after last year sad that Wellll I get it. After everything being about me, my dog and smoking, can't blame ya. Just food for thought here, but I'd have to say it's pretty ALL I DO have is my dog...and my ciga ttes. Actually decided a few months ago to throw drinking in on it all and party my way out of here. All the conditions and stipulations and
    via u/florvas
  • 03
    Mom claims queer people are the reason im mentally ill
    via u/ItzMercury_Baby
  • 04
    Be what I can raise if you want to live with me I am not mentally equipped to raise queer people. what the hol Of course! what does me being queer have to do with it are you kidding me im done with this
    via u/ItzMercury_Baby
  • 05
    Your choices made it so hard Nobody asked you to constantly hang out with gays in Radmond Or children who do not know who they are That made you mentally ill Good night! really? theres nothing else in my life that couldve possibly made me mentally ill its the gay peoples fault? seriously Delivered
    via u/ItzMercury_Baby
  • 06
    if its gay peoples fault then dad must be gay Delivered
    via u/ItzMercury_Baby
  • 07
    I don't have queer children in the school They are all boys or girls yes because you teach second graders
    via u/ItzMercury_Baby
  • 08
    How my mom, who is my financial dependent, lost cable TV for the day
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 09
    A little background. My parents were both abusers, my dad used my mom's generous Postal Service retirement to pay for his unnecessary debt. She has around $900 a month in SS and we live in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. I pay for her everything, including her medical bills, food (she eats Starbucks and takeout daily), cable, phone, car repairs, gas, basically her entire retirement except for 900 a month, which is maybe a quarter of her expenses, possibly less. I'm paying for her re
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 10
    In return, she verbally ab ses me regularly and complains about everything like it's her job. I have chipped my teeth grinding them in anger and I am on bl_d pressure medication. She also keeps calling ambulances to come get her when her ailments, which she claims get worse every single day, bother her enough instead of seeing appropriate doctors. (She has her own car and is ambulatory.) I then pay for whatever bills this incurs because her only insurance is Medicare.
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 11
    What I sent in the last message is true. Every time she needs a doctor, I create a list for her based on distance and convenience and send it to her. I've sent her dozens of doctors, including specialists, dentists, and GPs. Every time I do this, she deletes the text, says that she's not well enough to see that kind of doctor, and the next time it comes up, blames me for not being able to get a doctor because she doesn't have a list. She cannot call doctors on her own because she says she cannot
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 12
    I have told her over and over again that in return, I am owed basic respect and for her to drive with responsibility and caution. Usually, all I do is yell and threaten to leave if she won't act right, while she threatens to di, kill herself, and throws herself pity parties like, "I don't know why I'm like this," and, "I can't help it."
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 13
    Anyway so I just shut off her cable for this astounding bit of nonsense, which I got a record of for once. She threatened to kill herself. I told her we'd revisit the cable tomorrow if she could behave herself. Before you say it, yes, I know I need to stop letting her financially ab e me and go no-contact. Knowing that the bed she made for herself is one I wouldn't want my worst enemy to lie in stops me. One of us, unfortunately, has a conscience. Believe me, I fight with myself several times a
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 14
    Before you say it, yes, I know I need to stop letting her financially ab se me and go no-contact. Knowing that the bed she made for herself is one I wouldn't want my worst enemy to lie in stops me. One of us, unfortunately, has a conscience. Believe me, I fight with myself several times a week.
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 15
    Sunday, November 24 Hey you're up, right? 12:32 PM Yes. For what it is worth. 12:33 PM You are hungry or what? Yeah, are you? 12:34 PM 12:35 PM Hungry? 12:34 PM Yeah. I have an idea but do you have any thoughts? I have no thoughts. My brain and body are de d. What is your idea? 12:37 PM 12:37 PM Why don't you go out to the car and crank on the heater? See if you feel better faster. I am actually not frozen at the moment. Rare, but true. 12:39 PM
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 16
    12:39 PM Oh okay. Is there anything that might make you feel better? Did you sleep poorly? Always sleep poorly. I do not know what might help. There must be something. I guess. 12:42 PM 12:41 PM Let's get you some CBD. I bet it will help, a lot of people have good results. Who be what be CBD? Der? 12:43 PM 12:44 PM 12:45 PM CBD is one of two active ingredients in Marijuana. It's the one that doesn't make you high but does help you relax. A lot of people say it's amazing for sleep. My friend Alis
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 17
    12:48 PM Okay, sure, keep doing nothing and never seeing a doctor. That's working really well for you. Stop telling metostop seeing a doctor! FIND ME A F DOCTOR!! I CAN'T! 12:50 PM 12:51 PM I HAVE. I HAVE SENT YOU LISTS OF DOCTORS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. EVERY TIME YOU ASK ME TO SEND YOU DOCTORS, I F DO.
    via u/VerminJerky
  • 18
    I told her I might not be home when she gets home... I'm 19!
    via u/Cereal_boxx
  • 19
    Oh Who and where are you going to go in case I have to hunt for your body? Go ho with, that is? Leave your location on So gpa can guide me to you I shoulda had you get me an iPhone, huh? When I break this one... Missed audio call Tap to call back Or you could just ignore me
    via u/Cereal_boxx
  • 20
    Mom is begging me for money to gamble
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 21
    For context, my mom had recently won a $119k jackpot at a casino blackjack after 26 years of gambling. She had effectively used about $19k for debts, getting down payments for cars for my siblings (which I think was a bad financial move due to following events) and whatever else; I'm not sure so it could be more or less. Then she proceeded to gamble away the rest of the $100k within a week to "try to win jackpot again".
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 22
    This is after she sat the siblings down and said "this is the once in a lifetime opportunity to turn our lives around and improve" and gave us all a big hug and we were all happy and hopeful. Sister would get her credit card debts paid for ($10k) as promised by my mom who then just pulled that rug from under her. I then had a $5k transmission replacement recently. I had enough money to pay it. But my mom insisted that she help me pay for it by having my stepdad pay forward his rent 3 months to m
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 23
    She's been going out almost everyday and all night to the casino for the last like month to month and a half to "try and hit jackpot again". We've tried to talk to a her and get through for a very long time and we're at a point where we can't help and enable and support this anymore. I got this text from her this morning and it baffles me to hear her say "I thought you would support me". She was asking me to give her he $3500 she wanted to give me to help with my transmission. Claiming that it's
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 24
    Like why would I continue to support gambling and your bad decisions. I'm at my Witt's end and I can't take this anymore so I'm setting up a very large stone wall. She has been saying "one last chance" for many years and it always ends the same. And then gets upset at me because I'm not "supporting" this. Like I'm suppose to be some piggy bank or some puppet she can manipulate forever.
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 25
    can u give me back the money that I just give u please. $3500. thanks Please Last chance No, you're gambling No Omg When I have it I do it for you I really need it to win it back Bulls..... No, you had your chance. Let me try this one last time + iMessage You blew it
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 26
    9. No Omg The money I just gave you It's better and safer in my hands than your hands But I really need it now You had 119k and you wasted 100k No thanks I'm not helping you But it was my money I just gave you And I'm not giving it back because you gave it to me Omg It's either it stays with me or it's get thrown in the trash at the casino I thought you would support me You gave me the money to help me I'm not supporting your gambling. I'm not supporting you anymore. I told you I'm done + iMessa
    via u/SushiThatCat
  • 27
    I'm done But I just give it to you And it's now mine Bye If I give it to you, you're going to waste it Bye You never know I might want to check that again Jackpot It's not worth the risk. Im not helping you anymore. Omg If I knew that I would give you the money Please You ruined your once in a lifetime chances. I'm not helping anymore. I'm done + ¡Message Read 10:04 AM
    via u/SushiThatCat

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