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r/Parents

41.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 642 upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.

16peak upvotes per 1,000 members
41.3Kmembers
642best post
515most comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

60% 33%
Text 60% Question 33% Image 7%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Advice/ Tips 33 Toddler 1-3 years 28 Seeking a parent’s perspective. 17 Child 4-9 years 16 Infant 2-12 months 15 Discussion 13 Recommendations 12 Education and Learning 8 Humor 7 Tween 10-12 years 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

my kid asked why i don't wear cool stuff like mom does

↑ 642 πŸ’¬ 78 text 2026

Surprise Gender Nursery

↑ 304 πŸ’¬ 34 image 2026

History really does repeat itself...They've brought back the Victorian Murder bottles 😬

↑ 158 πŸ’¬ 103 image 2026

Does Daycare $$$ Return When Kids Hit Kindergarten?

↑ 140 πŸ’¬ 515 question 2026

At what age did you see your child's lasting personality traits reveal themselves?

↑ 123 πŸ’¬ 100 question 2026

My daughter’s headphones are a year old and still work perfectly… but she wants new ones because they look old

↑ 86 πŸ’¬ 207 image 2026

Disappointed by my 14yo nephew. How should I handle a breach of trust regarding money and games?

↑ 73 πŸ’¬ 48 question 2026

Anyone else’s kid do something ordinary in an unhinged manner?

↑ 71 πŸ’¬ 73 image 2026

I need realistic lunchbox ideas, not Pinterest lunchboxes

↑ 58 πŸ’¬ 92 text 2026

Good Friend Calls CPS

↑ 55 πŸ’¬ 38 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Parents, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Parents have?
r/Parents has about 41.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 642 upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Parents?
"my kid asked why i don't wear cool stuff like mom does" reached 642 upvotes and 78 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Parents.
What subreddits are similar to r/Parents?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/CzechCoconutCommunity, r/InterviewMan, r/news2, r/bondmarket, r/themayormccheese, r/greenland.
What kind of posts do best on r/Parents?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are text posts and 33% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Parents?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (162 avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (50 avg upvotes), Thursday at 12:00 UTC (36 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Parents?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Parents has 24 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 288 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Parents, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.