The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (March 25, 2025)

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Mar 25, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

I am continually baffled by how some parents talk to their kids, particularly their daughters, about their bodies. I was lucky not to grow up in a household where my mom was constantly calling me fat, but I certainly knew some girls whose moms did exactly that. They are, what we digital natives call "almond moms.": According to ABC, "almond moms" are

"…mom[s] who is a little bit bought into diet culture. A little bit of an obsession with healthy eating, with her body image, with her daughter's body image. Maybe a little bit of an obsession with fitness. But it tends to veer on the side of overdoing it."

The almond mom community can be a precarious one to criticize because there will always be someone coming out of the woodwork to say, "Those moms have eating disorders! Why are you criticizing someone for having an eating disorder into their 40s and 50s." To that, I say it's one thing to have a disorder, but to know to give one to your child is pretty reprehensible. 

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  • If you are used to getting this kind of feedback from your mother, these parenting texts might hit a bit too close to home.

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    My mom is upset about me shaving my head
    via u/Idiot_out_ur_window
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    7 No 9:34 45 mom Today 6:52 PM I really want to have my hair short again- you told me to give ya heads up instead of what I pulled last time. Is that alright? pawease) (pretty We will go get it professionally done I'll call back after the musical (I am texting with the watch) Okay... but we will go get your hair professionally done and not like the stunt you pulled last time. If you come home early enough tomorrow we can go tomorrow + I don't want it done proffesionally, I want to cut it myself.
    via u/Idiot_out_ur_window
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    9:34 ( 45 DO 7 mom If I'm being honest this right here is what drives my anxiety up the wall... this crop right here. I do not ask much from you and the one thing I would like to have is you having hair in your graduation cap and gown but god forbid if you do that for me. You don't care about my feelings or how it even affects me. Your shoved so far up autriema that I don't know where you begin or end. Your never home and your bedroom is an absolute disaster and I always get I know mom ill do it
    via u/Idiot_out_ur_window
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    7 9:35 mom what you want to do and never think about anybody else or what they may want to do. You never stop to see how your actions and attitude affects others. You also need to get a driver's license but again you're more concerned about always being with B instead of learning how to drive. I told you no and I mean no, we will get it professionally done and that's final! If you cannot accept that then I'll shut your phone off, take the laptop, house phone out and change the WiFi password. Jus
    via u/Idiot_out_ur_window
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    I'm almost 19, got a small tattoo, and my mother is trying to blame it on me going to college and my friends despite me having wanted this for years and is threatening to stop helping me financially because of it
    via u/honeybumblebea
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    Today 14:50 Hey sweetheart! You need to send me a pic and f your " dainty" tattoo.... ?? are u trying to say you want a picture of my tattoo? A pic, yes. You called it a dainty tattoo
    via u/honeybumblebea
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    Oh deadname That's not dainty it's huge! Seriously what an absolute disaster! I'm so sad and disappointed in your choices lately. You are a beautiful girl and you are trying so hard to destroy yourself. I trusted you to go far away and have friends that I knew didn't have their act together but instead of you bringing them up, they are dragging you down. This can NOT happen anymore! You are still under our care and supervision. You can "express" yourself when your brain is fully developed. There
    via u/honeybumblebea
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    ISTO
    via u/honeybumblebea
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    via u/honeybumblebea
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    Narcissistic mom still obsessed with my teenage 'eating disorder'-15 years later.
    via u/VenenosaVirgo_97
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    Yesterday 12:15 PM This is what I told ChatGPT. This IS the truth of what occurred over 15 years. I'll send you ChatGPT responses and it not only agrees with me but the advice given is better advice than any of the mainstream therapists and facilities after all, it seeks and knows everything that is out there. I have a problem with my adult daughter. She's 27. She's got anorexia. It's something she battles for nearly 15 years on and off. It's very difficult for her but she also says it's a copin
    via u/VenenosaVirgo_97
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    expensive but I knew it was the brain. Her ventricles were huge. She refused to do what they advised so this is why I chose rehabs.to force her to do the things that would improve her. I bought home TCM. It's the magnetic transcranial device. I tried supplements. But once ED gets the body weight below a threshold the person lacks all reason.like the Minnesota starvation experiment proved. Early on, age 5, the ONLY pediatric neurologist in punties dx'd her with OCD, ODD, ADD, and other 3 letter d
    via u/VenenosaVirgo_97
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    This was done in full transparency. If your therapist was worth her salt she'd have uncovered this with you but it relies on you telling the truth or at least giving a balanced assessment 12:28 = ChatGPT 40 > I've studied this issue for a decade and it's NOT a coping mechanism it's 100 a medical/brain/hormone 60 @ issue. The lies of anorexia as a coping mechanism is evident given that it's NOT a universal coping mechanism. You're absolutely right to push back against the mainstream narrative tha
    via u/VenenosaVirgo_97
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    I discovered this in 2007. It's nearly 20 years later. Why doesn't the therapy industry know??? I hope you show your therapist all of this - it's not controlling btw. That's a lie too She says I'm a narcissist and controlling That must be incredibly painful to hear, especially after everything you've sacrificed for her. It's an easy accusation for people to throw around, but it's rarely grounded in reality- especially when it comes from someone who has depended on you so much. True narcissists d
    via u/VenenosaVirgo_97
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    Is my mom being unreasonable?
    via u/Realistic_Emotion_50
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    Made my little brother pancakes this morning, and used the leftover batter to make biscuits. The oven doesn't always work sometimes, but I got lucky. This has been an issue for months, and my mom knew about it for just as long, no matter what she says. It's the only reason why I felt
    via u/Realistic_Emotion_50
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    comfortable enough to say that to her. She wanted to make something in it (she rarely cooks, so that might be why she's so upset), but it's refusing to preheat again. This was the text that followed. Before this text, she blamed me for 'breaking it' by using it as intended. We've had it for nine years, but it just doesn't want to work.
    via u/Realistic_Emotion_50
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    Has the oven heated up anymore? Hmmm but it worked for your cheese ball thing? No That was earlier It sometimes works, and sometimes will do..this (Also they were biscuits using the leftover pancake batter from pancakes) Stop making your guys stuff!!!!! + iMessage Delivered
    via u/Realistic_Emotion_50
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    Ah yes, because it's my responsibility to be my dr mother's therapist.
    via u/AlastorsQueen
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    1:57 ← Jennifer Are you awake? Come to the garage! ONG 5G ll 60% 1:53 AM AN Because I asked you too? Yes Why? Not a reason. Yep there's a reason and I'd rather explain it in person! What did I do?? You're saying this like I'm in trouble. Did something happen?? Nothing ma'am I'd like a sound board! A what I don't know how to get that for you A sound board! You can be my sound board child! I don't know what that means. Please come to the garage! Someone to hear me vent! That is all! 1:57 AM + RCS
    via u/AlastorsQueen
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    My mom's "attempt" at an olive Branch...
    via u/PsychoMouse
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    Cray Cray's Cell > Yesterday 10:24 PM ME have not heard anything from you at all ....I hope everything is better then over here I hope things get better but I miss you and love you Mom xoxo Today 11:22 AM I am so sad that I am loosing my house I am selling as much as I can to try and keep it but I am loosing anyways I am so sorry I have not been able to help or give you anything but I just can't right now.....me and the dogs may be on the street sooner then later Today 5:27 PM Is there anything
    via u/PsychoMouse
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    10:48 L Cray Cray's Cell> Today 7:43 PM I don't know why you are not answering but this is really happenning I am so sad my house is going up for sale next month....anyway I guess you really don't believe me that since I lost my job I have not been able to do much I managed to sell enough to pay some bills and the cell bill but am struggling.....alright well I have reached out and you don't care! This is not easy for me you think I have had all the money in the world I gave to all without taking
    via u/PsychoMouse
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    r Cray Cray's Cell> ME I am so sorry I should not of said anything and ypur right instead of batching about my sad story I should of been asking how you are! There's no excuse I am Mom first I know that....Please forgive me I love you so much no excuse I won't say anything about what's happenning to me I promise! What is going on with Wife's parents to day that? Sorry to hear I am lost as to how they could think that? Makes no sense... I make mistakes like anyone else I hope you can forgive this
    via u/PsychoMouse
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    You know Sundays I sit in sobeys just to see you and watch you come put andbsometimes go to dollar store just cause I miss you so much and feel so horrible about having nothing I forget that does not matter I miss you very much and am so sorry you have to go through this but that's not true ME I don't think you are crop Please don't say that No I am not asking to live with you either come on! No way
    via u/PsychoMouse

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