The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 1, 2025)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Apr 1, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Parents lie to their kids all the time. They tell them that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are all real sentient magical beings, and then they pull the rug out from under them. That's the type of lying that most people consider acceptable because it's fun, and kids' belief in mystical creatures keeps the magic of their childhood alive. 

Maintaing childhood innocence is a huge reason why parents lie to their children. In the Broadway musical Gypsy, Baby June asks her mother, Rose, "Why do I have three fathers?" Rose replies, "Because you're lucky." That's easier than explaining the minutiae of why Rose has married three men and is no longer with any of them. I don't know if the world would be better if parents told their children everything with candor in great detail. Although that's not expected of parents with little children, you would think that courtesy would be afforded to adult children. 

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  • This week, instead of a wide spread of parenting texts, these texts are only between one mother and her child. The mother has been lying to her children for years about having a medical condition she doesn't have and refuses to accept the reality that her kid is presenting to her. 

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    Pretty sure my mom's been faking cancer for the past 6 years..
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    1:30 M Mama all 90% Yeah the whole "call me cause I have to tell you something but I refuse to just text it" thing has me pretty uncomfortable. I don't really know what to say.. I'm sorry I didn't mean to worry you were upset you it isn't anything major at all in fact I've got it squared away all is good It was some end of life stuff that I really didn't feel comfortable talking about through text I'm kind of old school like that but everything is fine and as it turns out I took care of it on my
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    1:30 ← M Mama ༄༅དྡཱy" ! ༥Nཅད་ all 90% Ok. I'm glad you got it sorted. Speaking of that- I find myself continuously reeling with grief and confused about some of these updates. Could you give me the name and number of your doctor? Id appreciate being able to speak with them to get some clarity on your situation. It's been really hard hearing "I'll be dead in a week" from you for the past like... 5 years. It would really help me to speak with someone who has some more insight and facts as to what'
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    1:31 M Mama Please? The lack of response is concerning.. 12:14 AM Nothing to be concerned about, I'm just processing a few things and tbh that" ill be dead in a week" comment kinda hurt,it felt harsh, especially because I feel like I've tried so hard to steer away from my physical situation when we talk. I love you sweet pea,but right now I just feel like there's a genuine feeling of "why are you still alive?", not just from you, and I honestly don't know, maybe you should talk to Jenn,she knows
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    1:31 ← M Mama all 89% I'm sorry that what I said felt harsh; that wasn't my intention. I've always heard you speak very frankly about this situation and didn't know that would touch a nerve. I'm sorry. I am scared and confused because a month ago when we talked you said you were told your kidneys are shutting down, that you needed dialysis, and that you would be refusing that. Most people in that situation don't survive longer than a week. I'm not asking "why are you still alive?" I'm asking for
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    1:31 ← M Mama ill 89% 0 alive?" I'm asking for the information of the doctors that are treating you, so I can hear in a more clear and firsthand manner what is happening with you. Especially if you are invested in not talking about your physical situation to me, it would help my heart to be kept in the loop by your doctors rather than you having to relay everything to me. Please do that for me. I think I'm deserving of clarity on this situation, especially if it would ease your load of having to
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    1:31 all 89% ← M Mama hot mess and now because of their screw up I am not currently insured which is something I'm working on. And in the mean while I'm not seeing anybody else I'm enjoying every day as I can which is not always easy but it is what it is. I'm sorry you deserve so much more than this but getting any more in depth with you isn't something that's going to make you feel any better I promise you that. Can you just not be happy that I'm on the planet? And I'll promise not to mention a
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    1:31 89% ← M Mama between you and me and your doctors is wearing me thin for this exact reason- I didn't understand correctly what you told me and ive spent the last month (and 5 years) grieving the loss of my mom, only to find out what i thought was happening isnt the case. I just want to hear what's going on from the person who's been treating you. Just a name and phone number. That's all I want. I think I deserve that. You do deserve that but currently nobody is treating me, I'm not going bac
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    1:31 ← M Mama 89% الله Ok then how about who you were seeing? Who was going to refer you to a nephrologist? The doctor that was referring to the nephrologist was the one I was referring to up above whose office basically screwed things up in a bunch of different directions. I was referred to the doctor through ron and now everything is just kind of a mess and I'm working on cleaning it up I'm sorry I hate texting this stuff but I've given you all I have ...except the name and number of this offi
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    1:31 ← M Mama CO 89% I'm sorry I hate texting this stuff but I've given you all I have ...except the name and number of this office, which is the only thing I've asked from you? There's no point, I'm not going back there and they messed everything out. I know that I am risking my relationship with you and believe me that is killing me but this is all I know and all I have to give you I don't care if they're a mess. I'm a mess from being strung along like this. Until I can have a name and number
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    Update on Cancer Faking Mom
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    2:39 ← M Mama 11:12 AM * 9 5GUC Ill 25% – No update? Is our relationship really worth so little to you that you'd destroy everything we've built over something so simple? You've always told me I'm the most important thing in your life, that you'd walk to HI and back for me... but you won't make a simple effort so that I can be in the loop on the care you're being given? My heart is broken. My trust is destroyed. You know how to fix this, and you wont?? What is really going on? 12:20 PM Okay swee
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    • 2:39 M Mama 5GUC ill 25% this is gone to this place, I'm not trying to hurt you or make things harder for you you have all the information that I do right now, the only office I've been to here is the one that I told you about and things have been really walking me and I'm trying to sort that stuff out but this isn't anything or in any way me trying to hurt you, I would think you would know that by now. You are the most important and I would walk through hand back but sometimes you just have t
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    2:39 ← M Mama 9 5GUC . 25%. about the pain and hurt I've caused you if I had some way to fix it I would but I don't. Know that I love you bunches always Ok so what about the doc you said you'd been going to before? Who is prescribing your pain meds? What about your doctor in Nevada? Literally any doctor that you've seen and you can give them permission to release some info to me? Like the fact that you can't even say to me "I've been going to PoDunk General and seeing Dr. Hicknuts" is wild. I'd
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    2:40 M Mama * 5GUC il 25% start hospice as soon as you "sign on the dotted line" so who's providing this dotted line in the first place? Okay I'm not sure what kind of red flag you think that is, first of all I just told you that the doctor that I saw here really messed a lot of things up and was technically only a physician's assistant, I'm working on that mess that was made so that I can get my insurance reinstated and get to the nephrologist and Pain Management specialist but that has not hap
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    2:40 ← M Mama 9 5GUC . 25% secrecy it's just where it's at right now and yes there are a couple things that I am holding onto for myself it has nothing to do with you or your brother I'm sorry if you feel like there's a red flag I am giving you everything I can and know. I'm sorry it is not giving you what answers feel you need but that's all I've got if you feel like you can't trust me for some reason that hurts but I don't know what to do about it. And let's face it it's not secrecy from the v
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    2:40 M Mama * 5GUC il 25% ayain am seriously morning UII figuring out how to get to reinstated I don't know exactly what the mess came be like and why but I'm working on it. When you finish with setting hospice stuff the dotted line is given to you by whatever workers come in to have you sign off on and I have not done that yet. I wish that you could just take a moment and a breath and enjoy the fact that your mom is still on the planet You're still not giving me a name..... I mean you've seen a
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    2:40 ← * 5GUC il 25%. M Mama в previous doctor who will not "mess everything up"? I understand if you're having an insurance snafu but you've still got valid charts and bloodwork somewhere that I can be granted access to? Like idk why you'd rather risk our relationship... your words btw... then make a call 2 so my anxiety and confusion can be cleared up? Because right now there isn't one to give you, like I said this last place that messed everything up you wouldn't get any answers out of becaus
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    2:40 M Mama 5GUC all 25% to figure out my insurance to get that reactivated so I can actually go to see these people with no problem now you know everything I know in that direction. I will tell you this Initially I was still getting My script From Nevada but that gave out a while ago and because it's a narcotic and the way that the state of New York is That's truth of it is Ron has been getting a script for his knee for pain For some time out and currently in for a while I have been Using His p
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    2:40 ← M Mama * 9 5GUC | 25% – I hear what you're saying But sometimes you just have to trust that even at your age Your mom still knows Some things that you just need to trust me on, believe me When and if there is something additional I will let you know but it won't be from text it will be voiced voice cuz this stuff is really For the birds just saying I just want a single shred of evidence. That's it. I've been grieving for 6 years. 3 years ago you said you had cancer in your BRAIN!! Do you
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    2:40 ← M Mama do that. It's fed up. * 5GUC ll 25% If you have appointments lined up then where and with who? Texting with Mama (SMS/MMS) I've trusted you unconditionally this whole time. But every time I have real questions you dodge them or redirect.. so now I'm taking the "trust, but verify" approach. So PLEASE give me ANYTHING to verify. Without that, I can't continue to trust. I mean you're just now telling me you haven't been taking anything that's legally prescribed to you, when you'd been
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    2:40 ← M Mama * 9 5GUC l 25%. time, yet you expect me to trust you? RCS chat with Mama Wow I'm not even really sure How to respond right now I realize I haven't shared a ton with you or your brother but that's just because you guys are far away and I'm just trying to handle things, And I believe the conversation you're referring to I told you that the doctor initially said that when it spreads if I didn't have anything done then it could spread Everywhere including My brain And that that kind of
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    2:41 ← M Mama * 5GUC il 24% get My records which are being sent to me hopefully soon From that office and also the nephrologist and pain manage specialist | 100% I will send them to you Unfortunately it's going to have to wait until then and if you don't believe me Really have no idea what to say to that It was one thing when Mark made comments That was hurtful but That's Mark I just Really don't know what else to tell you except this. if it's not enough then Not sure what else to say and no as
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    2:41 5GUC all 24% ← M Mama type of thing either. No mom. You told me first that you had ovarian cancer. Then later you told me it was in your stomach and that you couldn't eat. Later you told me it spread to your lungs. After that, you said you had it in your brain- that you couldn't drive anymore because you get disoriented easily because it's in your brain. This is exactly why I want to text, because I don't want to be gaslit and backpedaled any more. I asked you point blank if you'd told your
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    2:41 M Mama 5GUCll 24% medication...So you've actually never been given a scrip by a doctor in NY?? When you have these upcoming appointments (at a place you STILL refuse to name) please put me on the list of people they can release information to. Then give me the names of these people and places and I will contact them myself. I hope it goes well and you get the care you need. I look forward to some light being shed on this for me by a professional, because clearly there is grave miscommunicat
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    2:41 ← M Mama 5GUC all 24% wasn't driving anymore was because of the pain and when I'm in pain I get disoriented and I didn't want to take a chance of hurting anybody from that direction. Have I told you every detail no, there are things that you don't necessarily need to know or I don't share with anybody. I believe I have good reasons but they're mine and I would love for you to trust me but obviously you no longer do for what reason I do not know but I love you and I'm sorry that I upset you.
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    2:41 ← M Mama 9 5GUC . 24%. sorry you feel that way because that really hurts. I would never put my kids through anything even close to this intentionally and in fact have tried to keep the majority of it away from you guys for the most part along with a lot of things. But believe what you need or want to, and when I go into both of those doctors I will make sure to give them your name, like I said I haven't seen either one of them yet because of insurance screw up but I do have appointments wit
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    2:41 ← 0 5GUC | 24%. M Mama continuously tell me you're at death's door but month after month, year after year you're still here, still telling me you'll be gone by the end of the month. I don't think I need to remind you the story of the boy who cried wolf. YOU have single handedly eroded the trust I've had. Until I can have 100% transparency i see no reason to be trusting. I've never asked you for anything but information, and you won't give it to me.. do you know what that feels like? I feel
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    2:41 ← M Mama 9 5GUC | 24% – you for anything but information, and you won't give it to me.. do you know what that feels like? I feel like I'm not even worthy of the truth. That you'd rather destroy our relationship than give me a simple name... if someone I loved was BEGGING me for information because they care about me, I'd be on the phone with every doctors office I'd ever been to, giving release consent because it's cruel to keep people in the dark. You've chosen cruelty and lies... lying by
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