Every parent makes mistakes. However, if someone is genuinely interested in being the best mom or dad they can be and shows up for the job day in and day out, they are already on the right track.
The ones who are merely faking it can't fool us forever, though. To remind you that, sooner or later, the truth comes out, we have collected a list of sad and infuriating stories people shared online about the worst parents they have ever seen.
#1
Keith's mom. Keith was a 10th grader and I was new to teaching. He was such a pain in the neck. Didn't do any work. Mouthed off. Got other students distracted. I ended up calling his mom about half a dozen times, asking her to come in and meet with me to talk about the situation. She never returned my calls.
And then one day, out of the blue, she showed up to talk to me. She didn't look happy to be there but hey, at least she came, right? I thanked her for being there and began to talk about how Keith was doing. She looked around the room while I spoke, and her body language made it very clear she didn't want to be there. After a few minutes, she interrupted me, looking straight at me for the first time. "Look," she said. "I gave up on that kid a long time ago. You want to try to do something with him, you go ahead. I wish you luck." And then she got up and left.
I felt sick. This was her son. He was maybe 15, still a KID, for crying out loud.
In the days that followed, I thought about Keith a lot. In class, I did my best to see him through fresh eyes. I made a point of talking to him more. And at some point, I realized that for all the headaches he caused, I actually liked having him in class. Turns out he was a funny guy. He had a big heart. After a while he even started doing some work. Not a lot, but some.
One day, another kid in class was being really smug and obnoxious. Without warning, Keith punched the kid in the face. He sighed and looked at me. "I'm really sorry. Had to be done. I'll escort myself down to the office." I guess that was the last straw for the school, because Keith was sent to an alternative school in the district. A good one, thankfully.
I saw Keith one more time, about a year later. He came to my class, grinning, a report card in hand. All A's. "I decided it was time to get my $#*! together," he said, simply.
I never saw him again, but I heard he continued to do well. And I'm glad that though others gave up on him, he decided not to give up on himself.
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#2
I had the parents of a Muslim student demand to me that their son be excused while my student teacher taught lessons to the class because she's a woman and no son of theirs would be taught by a woman. I told them that's fine, but he's still responsible for the materials he missed (this would be every class over a 3 week period). They freaked out, called me a racist and went to the principal over my head who promptly told them that their son would be responsible for any material he missed.
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In 2023, Dr. Konrad Piotrowski, a psychology professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland, published a study on parental regret. Piotrowski chose the topic because, despite parenthood being "one of the most important roles adults play," he found very little pre-existing research on the issue of regret, which he explains by its taboo nature.
"I quite often hear from my colleagues that they don't want to believe that parents can admit in a study that they regret having children," said Piotrowski.
But when he put out a call to recruit mothers and fathers who regretted parenthood, he was reportedly "contacted by dozens of people within a few days."
#3
Some years ago I used to live above a trashy single mother in a 3 apartment house.
One saturday night around 2am there was a knock on my door and the 4 year old daughter from downstairs stood in front of me crying asking if i knew where her mother was. Wet pj and dirty bare feet from searching her mom outside in the garden...
That b***h went out partying as soon as the child was asleep and left her totally alone.
She can consider herself lucky that the cops I called arrived before she did...
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#4
Met a kid at a convention. He was super cute and cosplaying as a character from the same fandom as me. Months later, his dad finds me online and tells me the kid had committed s*****e. Was super devastated cause he seemed really sweet and like a great addition to the con community. Attended the funeral and met the rest of the boy's family. His mom's first words when meeting me were "I'm sorry, I don't speak Geek-enese," and then proceeded to s**t on her late son's interests.
Yeah... and that whole family all probably wondered why he would do such a thing. And they're probably still scratching their heads to this day. It infuriates me.
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Piotrowski developed a scale for measuring their regret and applied it across two broadly representative sample groups, estimating that in developed countries, 5% to 14% of parents regret their decision to have children and would choose childlessness if they could turn back time.
His paper referenced a 2013 Gallup poll that asked US parents over 45 how many children they would have wanted if they could re-do their lives. Of those surveyed, 7% replied that they would choose to have no children.
#5
Parents who try to continue their pre-kid party life with their babies in tow.
I went to college in the archetypal college town, which means a street dedicated mostly to college bars. My friends and I would do bar crawls, and would always end the night at this one pub. Anyway, on this particular occasion, it gets to be that time of night and we take our table and start talking. I'm telling a story where I happen to say the word "f**k." The couple next to me turns to me and angrily says "hey! Watch your mouth lady, there's a child here." And for about two seconds, I felt horrible, until I realized they were the ones with a 3-year-old in a college bar at 11:45 at night.
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#6
One of my best friends. Met her in middle school. She always wore the same hoodie, two pairs of jeans, one pair of shoes that were busted out and duct taped together. Never judged her for it, I just felt bad figuring her family was super poor.
When I finally went to her house I was shocked. It was huge and in a super nice neighborhood. She had her own computer in her room (back then this was a big deal). I was blown away by all of this, my family was poorish but my shoes weren’t duct taped together.
Turns out her mom was addicted to painkillers, and did nothing but sit in a chair reading, drinking wine, and chain smoking all day every day. Her dad was also an alcoholic who was the head of a huge company in our state, so he was almost always working. I found out her parents simply never noticed she only had like one outfits worth of clothes and barely one pair of shoes. She didn’t want to bother them asking for a new pair as her dad was almost always at work, and her mom was never in a good enough state to drive.
Later on in our friendship I straight up told her when I first met her I thought she was super poor and her response was “I am poor. My family has money, that doesn’t mean I have money”. To this day she’s a hard worker and doesn’t live off her parents money.
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#7
An after school care parent of a 12 year old figured out it was me that called CPS. After threatening me in my office she proceeded to beat her daughter upside the head on their way down the stairs, declaring that no one would stop her from hitting her child.
Of course I called CPS again, as well as one of the fitness instructors downstairs to intervene.
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Of course, many of the behaviors we see on this list are inexcusable, but according to data from the Pew Research Center, many mothers (66%) and fathers (58%) do feel that parenting is a lot or at least somewhat harder than they thought it would be.
Additionally, sizable portions of mothers (47%) and fathers (34%) say being a parent is tiring and stressful (33% vs. 24%) all or most of the time.
Still, large majorities of moms – and dads – say they find parenting to be enjoyable and rewarding (shares ranging from 79% to 83% say this is the case all or most of the time).
#8
I have a friend who is a great guy but super indecisive and procrastinates everything. He rarely does anything for himself because he gets all mentally paralyzed assuming he's going to do it wrong. Very passive guy, always asking me for help with everything and "how do I do this, how do I do that" for anything he has to do.
Met his mom. Incredibly overbearing woman who constantly berates him. She does everything for him because, in her words, "he would just do it wrong anyway". She belittles everything he does and every conversation involves heaps of criticism and fault-finding.
After meeting her, I had much more empathy for my friend. Of course he assumes he's going to screw everything up. Of course he doesn't do anything for himself. I started making sure to point out the things he does well and heap on the positive affirmation, even for little things that feel almost patronizing (ever try telling an adult that he did a great job buying his own clothes? Feels almost belittling. But he's never heard that from anyone before because his mom would never say it to him and nobody else in his life realized he needed to hear it). Helped him gain some confidence.
He's doing a bit better now. He moved out of his mom's place and is learning he's actually a pretty decent guy, not an incompetent pile of garbage. Sometimes he can even see how toxic his mom is. It's a process.
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#9
I saw a lady leave her kids on a leash outside an ice cream shop. I mean, my parents had me on a leash when I was little because i was a little s**t who wouldn't hold hands, that's the right way to use a child leash. Your child is not a dog, you do not leave them tied to a bench. The point of child leashes is to keep kids safe while they can get some independence, not to be a neglectful idiot with a pet toddler.
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#10
My niece's birthday party. She has a little brother and sister. Little sister gets a balloon ribbon wrapped around her neck, and her father casually glanced over, took note of the situation, then went back to looking at his phone.
I had to pull out my pocket knife to get the ribbon off the kid while she cried.
Same kids, different story. It's Thanksgiving and something is burning. Smoke starts filling the house and the little ones start coughing. Nobody moved, so I snatched them up and took them outside.
FFS, I don't have kids because I'm not responsible enough, but people who have kids to just be irresponsible with the lives of their children P**S ME RIGHT THE F**K OFF.
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#11
A little girl walking with her Dad stopped to rummage through some dandelions. The dad kept walking while she yelled at him to wait. She picked a dandelion and ran over to him to give it to him. He tossed it to the side and told her to "stop f*****g around."
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#12
At a fast food place for lunch. There is a huge 300+ pound woman with her daughter who is about 6 years old.
The daughter is not fat (maybe plump) and eating straight butter. One pad of butter after another.
The mother stops her and says "Do you feel sick?"
Daughter says no. the mother says "Ok then, but once you feel sick you should stop".
Pretty sure the kid will not grow up healthy.
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#13
As a grocery store employee, I see prime examples of stellar parenting often. Sadly, I see ten times more examples of s**t parenting all.the.time.
During the winter, this woman came in with four kids. SHE was bundled against the cold, but none of her kids had coats or jackets or anything of that sort. One of the little girls had on sandals over her socks. And it was the worst winter we've had in 20+ years. All of them were unkempt and just looked miserable. She bitched at them the entire time.
Once I saw a man drive his shopping cart into his daughter because she was "acting up." He knocked her into the shelves pretty hard, and stuff went everywhere. He then berated her while she cleaned it up. A woman who witnessed it actually called the police on him.
This one lady was completely ignoring her toddler who was standing up in the baby seat of the cart. Her other kid was like "Mom! Mom! He's going to fall!" and dumb a*s woman just told him to shut his mouth. Well, sure enough, kid toppled over and it would have been SO bad, but this ninja dressed in street clothes leaped over and caught the kid just before he landed on his face. The mom was like "uh-oh!" and the guy berated her for being a dumb a*s.
I have more like that, but those are the ones that stick out.
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#14
But I had a friend who is a preschool teacher. She had a kid that told her she hated seat belts and won't wear it on the bus. Friend spoke to mother about it. The mother said she screams and refuses to wear it in the car, so she just gave up. The mother was speeding to get to the hospital on a rainy day, kid in the back seat jumping around. She hit water and skidded into a tree and the child was ejected. Died on impact.
Edit: Found the article after the crash. Did not hit a tree but flipped the car. Child still ejected and died of severe impact to the head. The article does not say she wasn't wearing a seat belt, but it is known that she was not. Mother was not charged.
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#15
A woman smacked her child multiple times for going to pick up a McDonald's order from the counter, because it wasn't their order. It got really awkward when it became clear that it *was* in fact their order.
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#16
18 yrs old. Standing in line during the summer, big attraction, lots of people lined up in the bright sun.
Big fountain right by the line, the outer ring of which is some kind of black stone, just sucking up light and heat.
We were like 30' back, and I happen to look over at the fountain as this woman hoists her infant (unable to stand/walk under their own strength) up onto the black ring. Barefoot. Poor kid is immediately doing this hopping kind of motion trying to pull her legs up, which makes mom shake her by the arm she's being held up by. Mom doesn't look at her, because mom is trying to do something on her phone. No one is reacting. Lady seems to reach someone on the phone and becomes deeply engrossed in conversation while her kid cries in pain.
I quickly walked over and put my hand on the stone and loudly (didn't mean to, was just surprised by *how* hot) said "holy c**p, it's so hot!"
Everyone nearby turned to look, and the woman had immediately pulled her infant away from me when I yelped. I just walked back to my parents in line. Lady kind of looked back at me for a moment with this "wtf is your problem?" face, before looking back at the fountain. She touched the stone and yanked her hand back fast, and she turned bright red before facing forward for the rest of the time we were in line.
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#17
Was at a stockshow. Kid with a sheep in the ring with her dad on the other side of the fence telling her she was showing like s**t and berating her for not being able to perform how he'd like her to.
She was sobbing in tears in front of about 500 people just in the building AND the show was being live streamed all over the country. I tried to help her from across the ring but she was too distracted by her piece of s**t dad.
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#18
I had a parent of a kindergartner tell me, in all seriousness, that she was told by their church prophet that my student was sent to lead the world into salvation. Her little girl was the second coming of Christ.
Gee, no pressure. "Here, teach the Christ-child to read." Plus, she was one of the *meanest* children I ever taught.
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#19
My boyfriend is very independent and self reliant and won't accept any help from anyone, including me. It took him 3 months to finally let me buy our dinner, because he never wanted me to pay for his food. During Christmas, I met his family. They are (for lack of better words) trailer park trash, live off the government in any way they can, front teeth rotting and some missing, haven't showered in who knows how long, money grubbers, etc. My boyfriend explained he learned how to be an adult when he was very young to get away from them and he never wants to live his life like they do.
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#20
Was taking care of a patient that had attempted s*****e; the patient was anxious and depressed but mostly cooperative. Then I met patient’s mother. Holeeeee f**k. Had I been raised by that person, I might have tried to k**l myself, too. Seriously, patient is in the ICU after a s*****e attempt and this woman was trying to make everything out about how bad this was for *HER*. I eventually got the patient alone and asked if patient wanted mom to leave—and then I lied my a*s off about our visiting policy and kicked that woman out for the night. We had a much better night after that.
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#21
My least favorite thing is watching parents insult and talk badly about people in front of their kids. It ingrains in them that being nasty is okay, and that fosters terrible behavior in the future.
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#22
Outside of a gas station a mother was pushing her toddler in a stroller while smoking a cigarette. The child started crying and she blew the smoke into the child's face and said "shut up" then I started crying too.
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#23
I work in pharmacy, and we regularly sell packs of syringes without prescriptions to people claiming to need them for a sick pet/relative/etc. Regardless of whether that's true or they're using them to shoot up d***s our policy is to sell them for the sake of harm reduction, because we'd rather addicts use clean needles than reuse dirty ones and spread diseases.
We had a lady who used to always come in with her two adorable little girls to buy syringes for their "diabetic dog." At first she was believable. She had her s**t together and her kids seemed well taken care of, but after awhile it became obvious she was actually using and her a*******n was getting bad. Her kids were obviously dirty, the older one who was maybe 6 years old went from happy and talkative to withdrawn and sad-looking, and the mom eventually stopped trying to cover up her open sores and track marks. I approached my boss with my concerns (as a mother myself I really did not feel comfortable selling to her with her kids right there), and he basically told me to either suck it up or have one of the other techs on duty sell to her, because it's corporate policy and a $3 pack of syringes is apparently still an "important profit" for the company. The last time I saw her come in she had open sores on her face and track marks up both arms, the older kid had on a filthy stained dress and her hair was an unkempt rat's nest, and the baby had a bad rash on her arms and face and her shoes were obviously too small and held on with duct tape.
I really wish I'd gotten her address off of her ID so I could make an anonymous call and report her to CPS so she could get some sort of help or at least have the kids placed somewhere safe where they don't have to watch their mom shoot up.
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#24
I was on a train home - a mother was sitting with her son (maybe 6-7 years old) at the front of a nearly full, silent car. He had peed his pants. For 45 minutes, we all had to witness her BERATING this kid, and doing it very loudly, saying s**t like "This is why I don't like to take anywhere with me....you're an embarrassment to me...everyone here knows what you did"...yadda yadda yadda. Poor kid was crying, she was yelling like this for the whole ride. I felt so bad for him. A man sitting near the back of the car spoke up, said something like "Ma'am, please stop yelling at him, you are making us all very uncomfortable." She grabbed the kid's arm and stormed off at the next stop.
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#25
Some a*****e father showed up to my work and put his 2yr old son in a cart. He pushed this kid around for like 15min or so and the whole time the kid was screaming and yelling and throwing fits. Typical 2yr old s**t... until this guy finally had it and decided to twist the cart super fast. I was horrified as his son fell out of the cart and landed directly on his head.
The kid's head made this loud crack on impact but suddenly STOPPED CRYING. A minute later the kid freaked out completely screaming with everything he had.
I had the floor manager call 911 immediately and told the man not to move his son. An offduty firefighter ran over and started first aid.
When I told everyone what I had witnessed, many of the staff working that day became teary eyed thinking this kid has to live with such an evil b*****d of a father.
When the paramedics came, I pulled one of them aside and gave my statement, letting them know that they needed to call CPS (this was in Ontario).
The father looked like he felt like s**t but he also looked more worried about getting in trouble than the fate of his son.
That night I sat down to a scotch and wept a little for that poor toddler and it f****n hit home pretty hard.
Never saw that guy again. Never heard what happened, if anything. I mean we hope that justice will prevail but all you can do is make your statement and trust that something was done.
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#26
It's not as bad as some of the stuff here, but my sister-in-law always threatens to leave a place unless her kid behaves. But she has never followed through on her threat once, so her kid knows nothing will happen.
For example, they'll be at our house, and he won't sit down to eat his supper. She tells him to sit and eat or they'll leave. She will literally say this 20 times. She'll even say "Okay son's name, I'm getting up and we're going." Still no reaction. Then "Son's name, I'm putting on my boots." Still nothing.
Eventually she gives up. He doesn't eat his supper and they don't leave. This happens every time I see them. So he never behaves and she has him going to a psychiatrist to figure out why.
I'm the opposite with my kids. There are times they don't even get warnings. We were at a park to watch fireworks a few weeks ago when my six-year-old hit me twice in the groin because she got angry at something. I packed her up in the car and went home and put her straight to bed. She missed out on the fireworks while her sister and cousins got to stay up later.
Don't make threats if you are not going to follow through on them.
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#27
My first teaching job, I had a fifth grader who was THE WOOOOORST (Jean-Ralphio voice). He would literally just stand up in the middle of class, laugh like a madman, and run out of my classroom. He also did a few things in the bathroom that no sane child would ever do, mostly involving feces.
I was new, so I asked around to see if this kid had a history of bad behavior. All of his previous teachers said he was actually one of the better-behaved kids, and he was pretty smart. No previous history of this kind of attitude or behavior whatsoever. They were baffled.
We (and by "we" I mean "all the fifth grade teachers and the principal") met with his parents 4 times in two months, trying to determine the cause of all of this. In the first three meetings, his parents were cooperative, but seemed a little slow. They couldn't think of any reason why little Jamal (we'll call him Jamal) would act in such a way.
In the fourth meeting, I said "listen, kids don't just flip a switch like this. Jamal has ZERO history of disciplinary problems until this year. Can you think of ANYTHING that happened between 4th and 5th grade that might affect his psychological makeup?"
They said "Oh! Jamal's uncle was found shot dead in our home this summer. Jamal was the one who discovered his body."
Something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!!!
#28
My father once had a parent pull a gun on him during a parent teacher conference. Eventually they got him to calm down and put it away.
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#29
Probably a father verbally berating his son (around 11-12) about asking for something. Like he would not let up about how this kid was such a selfish little b*****d (his words) this kid was trailing behind him obviously humiliated, crying while the dad just kept up telling him how awful he was. Felt bad for the kid. A few people stopped him and told him to let up and he just got all 'don't tell me how to talk to my kid' and stormed out. It was at a kohls in the mall so nobody could get the information on him. It was just really sad.
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#30
Was in a fairly nice restaurant with an adults only bar/patio in the back (on a canal). We were the only adults eating in the front part of the restaurant. Bar/patio really rolling. Thirtyish couple walks in with two girls, ages 10 and 12. They get a table for four near us. Server comes in and parents say, "Here's $10. Watch our kids while we go to the bar." They then leave the girls and go to the bar. Waiter pockets the $10 and continues his job. Kids start running all over the place and run outside onto the street. We get our food and are eating. Kids are out on the street in front of the restaurant playing. Father come back from the bar and can't find the girls. We tell him they are outside. Father starts yelling at us for letting them go outside??? WTF? Then he screams for the server he tipped and the manager. Demands the manager fire the server. We are still sitting there, totally blown away. Pay our check and as we are leaving, guy is screaming at everyone...kids, server, manager, us.
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#31
My friend saw a mother sitting on their child as punishment (He didn't know for what). It was a young child, and she was pretty overweight as well. Strange things happen on public buses.
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#32
My wife is the principal of an expensive Chinese daycare. Like, really expensive. Every parent drives a BMW or better.
A three-year old once ran away from the group during a field trip. The teacher, an incredibly mild woman, caught the kid and asked him if he thought what he did was good or bad. She didn't hit him, she didn't even criticize him or make him go in time out -- she just asked him if he thought it was a good thing to do.
The mother *freaked out*. Not because her child nearly went missing - she was furious that any type of discipline whatsoever was administered. My wife was on the phone with her until 2:00 AM while this woman screamed, "She has no right to tell my child what to do! Who does she think she is?!"
Fortunately, the woman became angry enough that she pulled her kid out a few days later. But that teacher is now so terrified to discipline her students that her class is out of control.
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#33
I worked at a school for blind and visually impaired kids.
This woman had a daughter that was blind and mentally delayed but otherwise healthy. They were referred to our school when the daughter was in her mid teens. Her mother did so much for this girl that she considered completely helpless (she was not) that her legs atrophied and she couldn't stand on her own.
We dealt with our share of nightmare parents of various stripes from the completely uninvolved to control freaks who knew every bureaucratic trick to pull to get what they wanted but this one, the one that cared so much for her daughter that she crippled her even further, is the one I think back to the most often. It was a constant battle to get her to back off and let her daughter learn to be an independent person.
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#34
I'm a lifeguard so there are a lot of rules I have to follow to actually keep my job. This little boy cut his foot on a seashell and only required a bandaid so I patched him up and went on with my day. 5 minutes later his mother comes over literally dragging the kid through the sand and cursed me out for putting a bandaid on him without telling her, proceeded to call my boss and curse him out as well.
TLDR: mom's a psycho.
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#35
I was on holiday a bit back there and was in this market, a child that was about 6 or 7 years old lifted a postcard and wouldn't put it down when the dad asked. Then out of the blue the dad loses his s**t and slaps the child so hard the child starts screaming immediately at the top of his lungs and falls to the ground holding his head. I genuinely felt ill and full of anger after watching it.
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#36
When I worked at a grocery store, there was a regular who would come in with her 3 kids. Usually the older kids weren't bad and rarely caused a scene but the youngest (about 3-4 years old) was THE worst. Every single time she would come up to checkout the youngest would start asking for candy. She would tell him no and that he needed to eat real food first before candy was allowed. Of course, he would start wailing so loudly that the whole store could hear and she would ignore him. This would go on for about 2-3 minutes and then he would beg her for candy again. She would say no just like she did before but on this particular trip he actually started throwing things out of the cart. She smacked him on the hand and told him to stop behaving that way and then he actually hit her back. She yelled at him and told him that she would spank him if he didn't calm down and he cried some more for a few minutes. Once I was done ringing her up, I told her the total and guess what happened?
She bought the f*****g candy bar and gave it to him.
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#37
This one stupid guy, during Christmas season, was in the store with his 5 year old and they were standing next to the ornament tree (like a metal skeleton in a shape of a Christmas tree, but empty on the inside). His kid crawled under the tree and somehow ended up INSIDE the tree.
Now this tree has a green bin at the bottom because sometimes ornaments will drop if tugged too hard or mishandled, most of which are made of glass, but when it does it'll fall into this bin to avoid getting glass shards everywhere. We just have to sweep it up daily.
So this kid is like playing in this green bin with glass shards, I only noticed because the kid picked up one of our FULLY GLASS ornaments and dropped it, breaking it immediately. I rushed over to him and asked if the kid was okay. The dad, looking at his phone the whole time, glanced up towards me and then looked at his kid and mumbled, "Don't touch anything." to his kid while I got his kid out and sternly said "This is DANGEROUS. Never crawl under there, okay?" and then they walked away without so much of an apology, and while his dad was still looking at his f*****g phone. I never wanted to kick someone in the face so badly.
#38
At a concert and saw this no more than 15 minutes ago, a dad lit up a cig and handed it to his son no older than 15.
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#39
I once saw a lady shout at her 3 year old for taking too long to get out of the car, then scoop him up by the waist of his pants, slam the car door, then full on battering-ram his head into the closed door.
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#40
My wife was [a teacher] in a poor area near Chicago. I've heard a hundred horror stories, but the one I always think about is this one.
My wife's school was having a really hard time involving their parents in their kids homework. The kids on average have poor test scores, poor intelligence, low motivation, etc... common problems today. So what they tried to do was, start an after-school program where parents would come in and help their kids with their homework. Kinda defeats the purpose of "home" work, but whatever. None of the parents showed up. Not surprising I suppose.
Here's where it gets interesting... so they decided they were going to raffle off a ham at each afterschool homework event. Amazingly, parents started showing up. I would have to drive with my wife every once in a while to walmart to buy a ham, because the parents showed up for a 1 in 500 chance to win a ham. They wouldn't come in for their kids, but they'd come in for a f*****g chance at ham.
Blows my mind to this day.
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