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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (January 28, 2025)

Emmy Ward

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‘It's her problem now’: Mom tries to trick their 29-year-old daughter into taking over $300,000 in debt, but she refuses, evicts them from the house she inherited from Dad, then goes no contact

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Dad and his affair-partner wife try to take his 2 kids out of school for 3 weeks to go on a healing vacation because she found out she couldn't have children of her own: 'He said that school isn't more important than family.'

Emmy Ward

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Dad faces roasting for claiming babies are boring, kids don't become fun until they're 3 years old: 'Not much for a man to do until they can roughhouse and form ideas'

Ally Perry

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Grandparents put pregnant daughter's ultrasound on their Christmas card without her permission, don't understand why she's upset: '[They said] I should keep my mouth shut so as not to rain on their parade'

JR Atkinson

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Dad cuts off his mom for feeding his allergic 4-year-old daughter cookies and cakes, refusing to babysit forcing him to lose out on a job offer: 'Mom tells the entire family that I refuse to see her for no reason'

Emmy Ward

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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 Ward

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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 Ward

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