The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (February 11, 2025)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Feb 11, 2025 12:00 PM EST

I have not had full-time group chat commitments since I was a teenager. Although I was annoyed by how much maintenance the average teen group chat in the mid-2010s took, those chats were highly entertaining. There was always a stupid meme or random incident that groupchat members could talk about 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These days, I am so much more practical with my texting. I text a lot to set up social engagements or send my loved ones tweets and posts that remind me of them, but then I remember that so many couples text each other about everything they do during their day, sparing no details. I text my best friends from college funny updates throughout my day, but I would never think to send them goodnight texts or text just for the sake of texting. But some people have full Douglas Sirk melodramas over text messages. 

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  • While group chats (especially family group chats) can be ripe for drama, a conflict between a parent and a child one-on-one brings out the ugly. It elucidates much more about their relationship than a chat full of a bunch of no-names. The following parents really went off the deep end. 

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    My (26f) dad (59m) is back with another attempt to monitor my location after work
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    5:03 .Ill 5G 352 D Dad> You said 3am, not 2:30am.Please call me when you reach and when you reach home Text Message Sometimes that the case but sometimes it's not I'm sorry I should have just told you earlier I just drove to iMessage so let me know when the train gets to I will Where are you now? The city I had to go to the store Now getting on the train again... From where, what stop? Subject A iMessage A Cash Delivered
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    5:02 352 D Dad> The city .Ill 5G I had to go to the store Now getting on the train again... From where, what stop? Delivered Where are you now? You should been home by now, not even at Call me and your mother to let us know where you are. Text Message Trains are not always every 5 minutes....and I had to pee.. 4:02 1 • Q Where to? 34 2 .5G > Uptown & The Bro...(Wakefield-241 St) 34 St-Penn Station 3 Downtown & Brooklyn (New Lots Av) Subject A iMessage A Cash 22 minutes 79
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    5:02 352 D Dad > YYTIT úT yUM TIJv TuE JITŲuu been home by now, not even at Call me and your mother to let us know where you are. Text Message Ill 5G Trains are not always every 5 minutes....and I had to pee.. 34 2 4:02 Q Where to? Uptown & The Bro...(Wakefield-241 St) 34 St-Penn Station 3 Downtown & Brooklyn (New Lots Av) 34 St-Penn Station 5G 22 minutes 79 minutes this is now getting ridiculous and I'm tired of constantly updating because it's clear to me that you and mom never believe me. and
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    Update: after two years of NC, birthgiver gets my number
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    P Person Who Just So Happened To Birth Me > iMessage Wed, Jan 29 at 11:24 AM Why are you going ghost on me? I miss you. Today 2:43 PM DO Really? No response whatsoever? Please tell me how I'm so bad I don't even deserve a response... Who gave you my number? Why haven't I seen you in two years? Who gave you my number? I am your MOTHER. I deserve to know why I haven't seen you in over two years and why you feel it's okay to go ghost on me. Nothing I've done EVER warrants any of that and the fact t
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    < P Person Who Just So Happened To Birth Me > I am your MOTHER. I deserve to know why I haven't seen you in over two years and why you feel it's okay to go ghost on me. Nothing I've done EVER warrants any of that and the fact that you probably talk bad about me and continue to not see me but see your father and his wife is incredibly hurtful and disrespectful. RESPECT goes a long way the fact that you continue to disrespect me after all of these years says a lot more about you than you could eve
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    Im 26 years old. I was partying with friends until 6am. This is my dads response.
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    12:22 352 D Call me now Dad > I'm hanging out I'll be on my way back soon Why are you not calling me? Why Where is this party? I need for you to call me now,no matter where you are to make sure that this is you texting me, not I'll think other wise and involve the police. You're not responding to my text, so I'll send this location to the police, because you were gone from home a long time which is not like you. Subject O 0° A iMessage Cash Can't call rn Delivered
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    My parents texts to my sister after they bailed on her bday again
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    First pic is my father telling my sister that he must have "a talk" bc my sister and her husband (BIL) called them out. I'm no contact with my parents. They're awful people. Next 3 texts is our mother justifying? Not apologizing that's for sure! I
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    thought of this group with her "know I love you very much". Also we've never hit our kids bc they hit us. My nephew shoved my sister and (he's 10) and she looked at him and tapped his a when he tried to walk away without saying a word! She did NOT hit my nephew.
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    Today 10:19 PM Sydney I'll be very plain. Your husband crossed a line giving your mother a hard time. I have refrained from confronting him directly over the way he has treated you in many situations. An apology is owed to her. SIS DAD I cannot believe you two would do this to me on my birthday. You both knew where I was the entire day. You have my location, you both say something the moment you don't. I gave you times, just as I do every year. You don't show up. You didn't last year either. Reg
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    I got your message. I just wanted to touch base. But then daddy read what you wrote to him Sent with Siri It seemed like you just put back out there what had said and A had just apologized BIL Do you remember the other day when you said you hit and it wasn't hard but you thought you'd never hit him repher It is very hard to say how you will act in the future ways you will deal with things in the future And I hope that will think of you. Before he before he hurts your feelings in your heart Sent
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    Neither will I but it doesn't make things okay all the time. I'm allowed to be disappointed and frustrated with you Absolutely, I agree Dude, there's a lot of things that go on just like you said between me and daddy were messed up and there's things that I don't talk to you about because it's not appropriate I think that you notice when we do something together, things go smoothly I leave on time or I'm ready. It's a big difference. One last thing is that I just really miss hearing your voice a
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    I sent u a text. I know I tried to call. We have had NO Running water in the kitchen for more than 4 weeks! No sink! No fridge that keeps food! Did you ck your msgs? Or did you do what you actually tell me, even in front of people! "I didn't read it, it was a paragraph!" Check your msgs & times & also when I tried to call! I wanted to know what you were doing AFTER your Facial, and if we were to go? Lunch? How long you'd be there? Then tried thinking of dinner, same. When your Daddy said, "I can
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    Mom claims she was bu ied by me: 14M
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    For context, she took my PC away two weeks ago for being inconsistent with doing my chores in the middle of the transition between semesters. A few days ago she began limiting my time on my phone to begin at 1 pm and end at 7:30. A few
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    months ago I opened up to her about how I felt it was hard to respect her when she didn't respect me. Updates will come if the post gains enough traction. I've never posted on Reddit before, but this is an interesting first. Sorry if it's a bit long.
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    all Ting Wi-Fi 1:35 PM M Mom> If I do this thing you want me to do will I get my screen time and my computer back I want you to do a project with me. There are a few parts to the project/it is ongoing but you can get your computer back when I see that you are invested in it Then list the parts out. All of them. No. You don't get to dictate this. I can list out to you some initial steps if you would like Pretend I'm your teacher giving you an assignment and talk to me the way you would talk to th
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    all Ting Wi-Fi 1:35 PM M Mom > Edited I want to know what I have to do. I don't want you to assign like ten hours of random stuff after saying it's a half an hour. And my teachers don't give me parts of an assignment, they give me the whole assignment weeks in advance. It's a 100 hour project/ongoing So I'm not going to do it. Like I said you don't have to finish it to get your computer back, you just need to get a good start Like what? Then tell me what it is.
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:35 PM M Mom> When I give you specifics you argue them 1 Reply And it's exhausting to me I just want to know what I need to do. I will make a list of some of the initial parts and you can get started on them Just give me a list of everything I need to do. No, but I will give you the first layer of steps I'm not going to do something that I have no idea about.
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    ■ill Ting Wi-Fi ? 1:35 PM Σ Mom> Imagine you give a builder the blueprints to a wing of a house, and don't tell him how much more work there is and ask him to agree on a set price for the whole job. Except the builder has the choice to work for someone else If you can get a computer from someone else because you aren't willing to meet the conditions to get yours back, go ahead In order to eam his computer back. Jim will work on and develop an interactive writers journal which he will start to de
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    Messages. • 1:35 PM +8 will work In order to earn his computer back, on and develop an interactive writers journal which he will start to develop his thoughts and stories and also develop deeper insights into himself and his goals. By the end of the project, I will have created a tool and a resource for himself and will never be bored without screens again. Instead of pouring his focus outside of himself into games that other people have created, will learn to pour focus into himself and creatin
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    Σ Mom> I already have a writer's notebook for creative writing class. Just because you don't see me doing stuff doesn't mean I don't do it. Well I want you to do this with me/by my rules and guidance No. I write the way I want to. You hovering over me would only make me write less and worse. The key thing in creative writing class is that she never looks in our notebooks. I wouldn't be hovering over you. Is that what your teacher does? Or do they work with you to set up expectations for the assi
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    wwww Ting Wi-Fi? 1:36 PM < M Mom> When I give you specifics you argue them You're doing it right now එ Like I said: do what I'm saying to get your computer back or move in with someone else and use their computer If learning something I want to teach you is really that awful, guess you can survive without your game I already have done what you want me to do. Just because you don't have supervision over it doesn't mean it's not what you want me to do. I'm not arguing the details, I'm saying that
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM Σ Mom> active creative writing teacher couldn't? Guess you'll have to do the project to answer that question Stop arguing with me. Work on it or don't. He Bye What do I have to say to make you understand that I've already done this? You would say: "well Mom I don't really care about my game because I'm fully engaged in writing and journaling so I can keep myself busy doing that forever." So in order to get back something I love I need to act like I don't love it?
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    > Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM M Mom> So in order to get back something I love I need to act like I don't love it? Nope, that's a manipulative incorrect summary Work on it or don't Writing is engaging and fun, which is why I do it. But It's not super relaxing in the same way screens are. Like socializing vs being home. And if you really think there is nothing you could possibly learn from me, maybe you should move in with someone else that you feel like you can learn from, I don't want you to waste your l
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    < Σ Mom> What??? I have school. That is what teaches me things such as writing, reading, socializing, and other such things. And stop using the time I tried to open up to you as a weapon against me. What time? I'm not trying to use anything as a weapon. You're not a prisoner in our house, if you have adults you would rather be raised by, you're free to go be raised by them Why do you keep trying to kick me out? Why are you acting like you being my only option makes you allowed to do whatever you
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    M Mom> I'm not trying to kick you out. That looks very different, like : "pack a bag and tell me where to drop you off" Why do you keep saying "if you want to find someone else who will treat you better feel free to go with them" Why do you think? You seem to think I'm a bad awful and pointless parent Idfk you're the one doing it. I don't want to relegate you to living with me if you feel that way And I've got a mf choice? I want my son to be around
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM Σ Mom> I want my son to be around adults he respects and wants to learn from and if that isn't me I accept it Edited No. I don't have a choice. Stop acting like I do. And stop acting as if you being my only option makes you justified to not improve yourself. -we could send you to boarding school -you could ask them and if you could live with -you could ask Grandma and Grandpa if you could live with them -you could ask any of your friends if you could live with them -you could
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM < M Mom> Don't want to curse you with my awful parenting එ т керту Stop acting the victim. 1 Reply Here's a hint. Teaching isn't the way to engage with me. Neither is giving me assignments like I'm your student. Maybe it's a way for you to engage with me What do you mean? Stop acting the victim. Okay if I'm not the victim, I don't need to have this conversation if I don't want to.
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM M Mom > Bye What are you talking about? Do you genuinely believe that I am abusing you in any way? Tell me, which one of us has power over the other? Quote where I said "you're abusing me" You putting words in my mouth is one example of you buying me in a toxic way I'm sorry what? In this relationship, who has power over the other? Who has control over the other's things, actions, emotional state, finances, home, stress levels, and much else?
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    Ting Wi-Fi 1:37 PM < M Mom> How could you even claim to be bu ied by me? I'm telling you you are free to go and be your own human in which I have no control over you. 3 Replies How could you even claim to be bu ied by me? Children can bu y adults I'm happy to continue to give you examples Not accepting no is one 3 Replies God and you wonder why I prefer dad Delivered
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    wwww Ting Wi-Fi 1:36 PM M එ Lots of options Mom> You're parenting me like you're in the eighties. Stop. I'm trying to engage with you, to spend time teaching you something interesting that we both enjoy and maybe we could find more respect for each other. If you don't have any desire to do that then maybe best to figure out another parental figure than me If I'm SO BAD what's so crazy about suggesting you pick a better parent? Here's a hint. Teaching isn't the way to engage with me. Neither is g
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