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22-year-old scratches a $25,000 winning lottery ticket at the family gift exchange, then everyone demands 'their cut' of the winnings, he refuses: 'They're the selfish ones'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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32-year-old woman tries to start workplace romance with coworker, complains when his 15-year-old daughter tells her he's not interested: 'She told me to take a hint'

Ally Perry

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Video-gaming mom forgets to pick up 9-year-old from school because she's busy playing Roblox, husband calls out her neglect: 'I immediately blew up at her'

JR Atkinson

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Absent father doesn't spend time with son for 11 years, worries he is trying to bribe him into living with him when he is 14: 'His stepdad treats him worse than the other kids'

Ally Perry

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Son stops paying his retired parents' mortgage after discovering they offered the house to his unemployed sister, they accuse him of being money-obsessed: 'It was naive of me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 21, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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Entitled new mom demands her 20-year-old cousin fork up their entire savings to cover baby costs, guilt-tripping them into foregoing their dream of studying abroad: ‘She said my dream is just a ’luxury' compared to her needs'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Dad gives 29-year-old son $15,000 towards wedding, younger sister protests because he couldn't pay her student loans: 'We cut her off financially'

Ally Perry

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16-year-old steals $50 of prescription beauty products from her sister-in-law, ends up with egregious skin irritations as a result: ‘She blamed me [but] I hadn’t expected her to dig through my drawers’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mom refuses to take in her ex-husband's 13-year-old stepdaughter, exes mom blames her when the girl gets put in foster care: 'I didn't believe for a second that the girl asked to live with a stranger'

Emmy Pratt

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16-year-old girl breaks her dad's ex girlfriend's beloved vase out of revenge for dating her dad, goes to her for advice after her dad starts dating a meaner woman: 'Tia calls her names, Jane calls her names back'

Emmy Pratt

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28-year-old daughter refuses to share her inheritance with her six older siblings, declining to sell her late mother's house to split up the profit: ‘I want to live in it like my mom had intended’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Mom saves her 5-year-old son's birthday after everyone no-shows, accepting a friend's kind offer to take the family to Disneyland only to be thwarted by her pride-stricken husband: ‘He hates handouts’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 14, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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'My son asks for money every single day': Father's 17 year old son drops out of college and moves back home with girlfriend, father tells them they both need to get a job

Baiz Hoen

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Strict father makes family take 'Navy showers' when visiting their house, call out son-in-law's 20 minute showers: 'This is a ridiculous rule for well-off people to impose'

JR Atkinson

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