Family therapist fires dad and his 2nd wife for treating his 16-year-old son so poorly, teen tells entire family about the firing: ‘[My dad] told me I’m trying to humiliate them’ ‘

It is pretty embarrassing to get fired for being a customer. It means the person providing you a service would rather not get paid if they don’t have to deal with you anymore. It would make me think if my personal trainer, cleaning lady, or piano teacher fired me. It’s not like the people working …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (May 13, 2025)

You can tell a lot about somebody’s relationship with their mom based on how they text her on Mother’s Day. I didn’t exactly text my mom on Mother’s Day because I FaceTimed her instead. I would find it kind of odd if I only said «Happy Mother’s Day» over text instead of with my own …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (May 6, 2025)

If we’ve learned anything from perusing the various text conversations between strangers on the internet and their parents, it’s that some texting habits need to be nipped in the bud as soon as possible. When I was in college, I had to tell my mom to stop tracking my location and asking about why I …
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50-year-old refuses to forgive his father for badmouthing his late mother and swindling him out of his $16K inheritance when he was 25-years-old: ‘His sister is now asking me to forgive him’

It’s difficult to accept that you’ll never get back something that was stolen from you. If your best friend stole $500 from you and refuses to pay you back, you might think for one solitary second that if they just apologized, admitted they were wrong, and paid you back in full with interest, your relationship …
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24 and 27-year-old couple abandons their son because they weren’t ready to be parents, wants him to treat their 3 younger kids like siblings when he’s 17: ‘I wasn’t interested in them or their kids, none of them are my actual family’

When a child is abandoned by or taken out of their biological parents’ home, it usually doesn’t mean that they’re going to live with strangers for the rest of their lives. Kinship fostering and adoption are traditionally a much better alternative for kids in precarious family situations because it keeps them connected to some of …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 29, 2025)

No parent is perfect. Every mom or dad will screw up at some point in the 18 years it takes for an infant to become an adult, and best believe it won’t be without consequences for their kid. There is endless writing and posting about being a parent to a child; I’m less interested in …
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‘SHE IS NON-VERBAL, WHY ARE YOU LYING’: Daycare teacher audio records her 3-year-old student speaking to prove she’s not non-verbal, gets berated by the girl’s mom and aunt

So many parents don’t want their kids to grow up. They want them to stay in the easy baby stages of life so they don’t have to do the work of taking care of a more autonomous person. I’m not even talking about going from being a kid to a teenager. A lot of growth …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 22, 2025)

When I think of the ultimate parenting failure, I think of Billy Bigelow. He is the protagonist (and antagonist) of the musical Carousel, and ding dong, does he have high highs and low lows. He finds out his wife (whom he constantly mistreats) is pregnant, steals money to provide for his future child, and ends …
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27-year-old expecting father asks his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend to play a role in his babies life, his family asks her to be a mother-figure: ‘They don’t want to be left dealing with the actual mother’

One of the only great things about breakups is that you’re really not culturally expected to maintain a friendship with that person. You could have spent every day with them for years, and if they break up with you, you have every right to literally never talk to them again. I have been friends with …
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