The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 15, 2025)

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Apr 15, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Tell me if you've heard this one before: "I'm going to have kids early so I can enjoy my 40s and 50s." Or what about this one: "I'm going to wait until I'm 30 to have a kid so I can enjoy my twenties." These lines of reasoning are predicated on the notion that having kids is not enjoyable and is something you want to be relieved of eventually or postpone. Of course, there are the parents who have kids in their early 20s and then start all over again when they're in their late 30s, prolonging the time when they have kids in their house by decades. They are going to enjoy their life, whether they have kids or not. I hope that when or if I have kids, I won't look at those 18 years they're living with me as a period of miserable indentured servitude. But again, who am I kidding? I'm a 25-year-old goofball who's only responsible for myself.

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  • Someday, I'll probably look back at these words and cackle at the nativity of the childless adult. For now, all I can do is present some parenting texts for those of you who understand why having kids (and being the kid) isn't always the most “enjoyable."

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    We asked them not to share photos of our children, they then shared them with my estranged parents
    via u/Thehoopening
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    This was his defence. He says "she definitely did not", but mentions times that they actually did in 4 different places elsewhere in this email my parents travelled 300 miles to meet them twice and they were facebook friends sending messages back and forth.
    via u/Thehoopening
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    I have to say with regard to photos, You have many times accused your mum of sharing photos when she definitely has not. I must say I don't get it. Its an image. Its not real. There is no part of you in it. I thought we had gone beyond superstition where people believed your very soul was encompassed in a photograph. With the exception of does it matter.... but hey ho will be " exceptionally cautious in the future
    via u/Thehoopening
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    The message my dad sent me after an argument between me and the family.
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    Back story: I parents have never liked my partner. Before they ever met him, they had: called the police on him (false ab e report), come to our home and shouted r cist comments at him and his mother (we're pretty much neighbours) tried to break us up a few times and basically on him, his existence and his family. All that adds to the reason why he doesn't want to meet them
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    now. They never offered a proper apology. Boxing day 2024, I went to theirs for dinner and it ended in a screaming match between us all. The vibe was already off when I arrived. Dinner was silent, I missed my other half a lot. The argument started when I said to mum "I can help you tidy up and then go home as I have work
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    tomorrow" my brother shot me a horrid look and I asked him not to look at me like that and he began screaming at me so of course, I screamed back. I was not about to have my 30 year old brother pop off on me (26f) and not defend myself. I left their home weeping out of anger and hatred for my bother and how hard they all came down on me as if he's the golden boy.
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    In the first voice message, my dad says he's not calling to talk sh... then proceeds to talk sh. I haven't spoken to my mother or brother since boxing day 2024
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    0:32 11:37 O In times of critical need you will see wh✿ your real family is. You don't even know that your pants was wrapped around your picture to keep you A day will come when the scale will fall off your eyes. on a different note, you leave him behind to go to work for 8-12 hrs straight shift and he will be alive. You leave him for 3 hrs to be with your parents and he is dying. It's only Laura who accepts that because he knows you can't think. 11:49 +|||||||||||||||||||||*||-|||-|||||| 1:04 1
    via u/boujiebitchy
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    mum i love you but what the f.....
    via u/DistributionLimp3866
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    my dad just threatened to break my legs he said it seriously Why did you wanna go somewhere? ok i know what i did wasn't the best (chugged a bottle of water) he said he's going to break my legs if i ever do that again Guggu fully serious he's not joking You know better i'm fine don't worry just because i drank water too fast he's going to break my legs logic indeed
    via u/DistributionLimp3866
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    You have to see his love and care in it! Agreed, it's not the right choice of words... he also started screaming at me and said he wouldn't care if i jumped off a bridge or keed myself as long as i was with you because he doesn't want to be responsible love and care yes how sweet
    via u/DistributionLimp3866
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    This lovely bit I found in our text history
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    fun? trivia: the medication I stopped taking is the nice way of saying the antidepressants she forced me off of because I just "needed to go outside not alter my brain chemistry"
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    ? I am done with you ignoring me I know you don't give a sh I know you're getting these who the f else is a priority contact in your phone just me don't ignore me Doctor for what Are you sick? ?? ?? Im at the doctor rn my phone was off idk I've been feeling sick Not really badly but it's worse than a cold idk i just wanted to get it checked out and papi said that's okay
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    Not really badly but it's worse than a cold idk i just wanted to get it checked out and papi said that's okay symptoms?? I threw up like a bunch :/ I don't remember you being sick are you skipping school for this they sent me home mami because I threw up again you weren't sick here are you seriously there with her I texted your father he's not there with you what
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    you're there with that woman his wife? yeah why I didn't think it like matters I don't think she can communicate in engisch huh she speaks english mami and I can too? idk what ur problem is with her she's been here like a year less than we have lol we're immigrants too? were not talking about this now. Ask the doctor if this can be because you stopped the medication
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    were not talking about this now Ask the doctor if this can be because you stopped the medication I don't like this I should be there you don't tell me sh sounds like a poisoning I don't think so but okay I'll ask sorry mami I literally did tell you I'll be back to schol tomorrow *school dw I don't think it's that bad
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    we will talk about this I don't think it's that bad
    via u/JamesllsemaJ
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    Not my parent but my legal guardian (sister) taking money out of my account with O warning
    via u/thewristcut
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    09:27 480 LTE 51 40-FTU-3 > Today 09:23 You could have at least told me There is a trust aspect to it, im don't have a problem with you seeing my transactions and stuff but I really don't like the fact that you're able to just do that. You didn't even tell me I just checked my account and it was at 0.00 This is one of the reasons I don't fully trust you because you don't actually listen to what I say you listen to respond not to understand and that's why we're never going to get anywhere with ou
    via u/thewristcut
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    Am I the insane parent?
    via u/BonezOz
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    Oh true ahaha I'm not much of a selfie person ahaha Nice photos, but where are you? How about a selfie or two? You replied to Pamela I'm not much of a selfie person ahaha Uhm, yes you are, I've seen your insta's This was at lake louise! No, how about one from right this minute? Ummm why? But it is? So I know it's actually you How do I know that? I've read way too many stories Yeah you have it's me ahaha I don't know who else it would be But is it? Or is it someone that has access to your account
    via u/BonezOz
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    I'm not responding to that aha that's a wild accusation How do I know it's you? And not your murderer?
    via u/BonezOz
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    extremely unhinged texts from my dad to my sister (I'm NC) about a family he hardly knows.
    via u/pestocracker
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    11:09 262 гогте Dad > The other son Is one fire A On fire He's on fire He's so gay Rainbow flags all over The outside Of the house Makes Ellen Degeneres look Like octomom.. + Text Message RCS 0 37 The I'm RTYUIOP QWE AS DF KL G HJK ZX C CVBNM ☑ 123 :) space return n
    via u/pestocracker

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