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

Emmy Pratt

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Parents let 3 rowdy sons interrupt couple's first dance at their wedding, let them play with fireworks unsupervised: 'Love that she was taking photos of them interrupting the first dance instead of parenting'

JR Atkinson

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Son-in-law hides a vasectomy from his disapproving MIL for 47 years, spends a lifetime loving his wife instead of giving her grandkids: ‘We just kept her hanging’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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28-year-old father of 2 asks his 22-year-old college student girlfriend to move in with him and pay half of his bills: 'He said “we’d be a family” and that his kids would be like mine in the future'

Emmy Pratt

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39-year-old dad plans a once-in-a-lifetime trip to his homeland with his family, then the in-laws tag along and complain about how much they have to walk: 'Half a mile in, he was struggling'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mom abandons 12-year-old for new relationship, gets offended when she doesn't want to rebuild their relationship as an adult: 'She made her choice'

Ally Perry

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Mom bans dad from reading bedtime stories to their kids after he renames fictional villains after her family members: 'My husband has never been on good terms with my family.'

Emmy Pratt

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25-year-old son refuses to take in half-siblings so they would not be sent to foster care, despite family's claims he is the only one who should step up: ‘It made them angry with me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Wife’s friend plans an out-of-country trip with several men but without her husband, and clashes with him when he supports his wife’s decision to say no: ‘She said I should stay out of it because it's between 'besties', I said I'm talking about my wife’

Etai Eshet

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Dad invites 26-year-old daughter to dinner with his 36-year-old girlfriend and her 13-year-old daughter, girlfriend excludes her from sitting with them when they get to the restaurant: 'My father's girlfriend told the host, "Table for 2"'

Emmy Pratt

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16-year-old rebuffs absent dad when he breaks down about missing her high school graduation: 'He said I was punishing him for being human'

Ally Perry

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63 and 65-year-old parents gaslight their daughter into letting them to move into her newly renovated granny flat, she refuses: ‘And I was going to pay because they were saving their money for travel’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Parents leave entire inheritance to their 45-year-old daughter who took care of them for 10 years, enraging 42-year-old sister and 48-year-old brother who never visited: 'David and Lisa saying it’s unfair and that I should split it 3 ways'

Emmy Pratt

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19-year-old expected to preoccupy his 2-year-old niece while his older sister ‘takes a mom break,’ gets berated after leaving toddler unattended, despite explicitly sharing he had other plans: ‘She was ignoring me, so I just left'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (June 17, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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Dad forbids 17-year-old daughter from going to her dream university, signs her up for community college classes behind her back: 'He don’t trust me to go 2 hours away'

Emmy Pratt

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