These parents are DELUSIONAL - r/AskReddit

teachers slash child care workers have read it what is worst case of helicopter parenting / my child can do no wrong you've ever seen I had a boy who kept acting out in class things like talking to classmates while I was giving directions giving strange answers hitting the boys sitting next to him in the arm grabbing a boy's bean during class I kept notes and informed our academy director about what was happening and he was pulled aside after school a few times to talk about his behavior one day at the end of class he reached across the table and forcefully flicked a girl in the forehead she complained and he cocked back his arm like he was going to punch her in response I had him sit while I let everyone else leave and told him to stay seated while I discussed his behavior with the academy director if nothing else being the last one to go would be a sort of punishment the director should him out and apparently he told his mum about it because his mom came to the Academy to say that her son was an angel and I should be reprimanded for exaggerating or lying about the situation cue the director listing off all the crap her son had done over the past few weeks and telling her that her son was no longer welcome at the academy never saw him again after that while studying I work in an after-school care one day a nine years old was showing everyone his lighter by trying to set the shirt he was wearing on fire I obviously took the lighter off him when his mother came to pick him up I handed it to her and told her about in trying to set his shirt on fire turns out it was her lighter so I had no right to confiscate it and her son just wouldn't try to set his clothes in fire because he's not an idiot so I must be making that up I once had a parent tell me the reason his son told the band director I don't have to listen to you because you suck ping pang director was a young gay male fresh out of college was because he was recently diagnosed with ant when I responded that I had been diagnosed with that as a child and still struggled with it but it had never once caused me to tell anyone else that they sucked pee he became belligerent and started threatening me pretty sure the kid is in jail now my mom owned a datacenter and I worked there when I wasn't in school there were some very unique kids and some crazy-ass parents the one that comes mine though had a six-year-old son this kid was an incredible brat but as soon as you met his parents you understood why he had just started school and was coming home upset because kids were making fun of him because of his pacifier that he kept with him and used throughout the day so his mom decided to wait with him at the school bus stop and pick him up from there one day they were waiting and he mentioned he had a wedley so right there at the bus stop in front of all the kids in his class and the crossing guard his mom picked it for him just stuck her hand down his pants and took care of it for him she wouldn't even let him handle his own wedgie needless to say that did not help with his cheesing in kindergarten we have testing twice a year one in winter and again in the spring a parent called in a conference because her daughter had received 2% under the cutoff that suggested her child may by third grade need additional help meeting reading goals now that isn't why I consider her a helicopter parent those test scores can be confusing and I could see why she might have been worried upon seeing that if she didn't really understand the way it worked however myself and my mentor teacher spent about 45 minutes with her kid in the room hearing everything trying to console her that her daughter was doing fine and that we weren't concerned about her progress at all we told her she interacts well with her peers feels confident and comfortable reading and that these tests aren't a good way to showcase understanding especially for a five-year-old the mother of ears that she makes her daughter to over 30 minutes of homework every night and won't even let her walk down stairs without reciting all of her weekly spelling words other stuff too but basically the mom was putting unreasonable pressure on this five-year-old girl like planning college and thinking years ahead just relax your kid is five if we have any concerns trust me you would know don't burn your kid out this early in their education I had a third-grade student whose mother felt that I favored other students over her son she would call me and yell at me about not treating him fairly and lying she snuck past the office a few times to come into the classroom to watch me teach which of course is illegal and I'd have to call the office she'd tell me and the principal that she was trying to catch me in the act of being dishonest of course my principal always defended me and dealt with the parent as a final straw the mother bought her watch with the voice recorder in it and the boy wore it to school he yelled out in the middle of class suddenly I'm secretly recording you and you won't teach here for much longer an 8 years old of course the watch was confiscated and the child was moved into a different classroom though the school district could have legally moved him into another but the mother still never backed down and the next teacher had similar issues before uni started we used to hold activities for first-year students frosh week for Canadians reading this nothing educational but always good fun had a student show up with his mother and she questioned everything we were doing and how it will relates to her son studies it didn't we were very clear that it was all for building relationships and a bit of pre-study enjoyment it was also a chance to meet older students and get an idea of uni life she was having none of it she wanted to speak with the head of department and filed an official complaint about these activities clearly having fun was not part of an education the second day she came again and triumphantly said the Dean is coming to talk to us the Dean did come gave us a pep talk and said how much he enjoyed this time of the year chugged a drink and told us to join him in the local pub later on she was speechless and left in a huff dragging her son by the hand neither showed up for the rest of the week music teacher here I had a heli moment one of my guitar students sitting on him during his first lesson she was sitting right by him shoulder to shoulder as I was talking about various things like how to hold the guitar and how to shape your hands and fingers around the neck she would grab his hand and do it for him every single time for everything time to strum some chords mom did that for him too can't get the fret hand to squeeze hard enough to make the strings ring she pressed his fingers for him he cried out of that and that's when I stopped and told her she had to let him do it on his own all I got for that was a sharp look and a fine there he tried on his own in the string just made kind of a thud noise and she said see he needs me to help him I told her that the only way he was going to be able to do it was to try and do it on his own he was the one who had to build up the strength things didn't really progress much after that and I ended the lesson with all of that I wasn't thinking they'd be sticking around for a second week but back they came second lesson started off the same and I politely told her she'd have to give him space in order to try still she wasn't thrilled but relented and got up in a huff and went out into the hall to watch from there after she left this kid took a deep breath and was visibly more relaxed after she stepped out he was able to have his own space and he actually try on his own he started to do better it was awesome at the end of the lesson he said he couldn't wait to come back and his mom came in and grilled him with something like why can't you do that when I'm helping you you don't want my help you don't need my help I could understand stuff like this if he was a young kid 7 or younger but dudes 14 years old he's going to be a freshman in the fall this poor kid has ended up being one of my best students his mom still hovers and he's still a super weird and socially awkward dude from living in a bubble but he's finally found something he can be good at independently from his mom it's really rewarding to see him gaining more and more confidence even if it is slowly he'll get there someday I taught middle school for one year we had a student who was being disruptive in all the classes he was refusing to turn in work or even do it he was constantly causing trouble we had each tried several strategies to deal with the behavior in our own we had each talk to the parents numerous times but they never did anything nor believed that the student was doing anything inappropriate no one was having any success eventually one of the teachers had enough so he suggested we do a meeting between all of the students teachers the guidance counselor a vice-principal the student and his parents there are six teachers plus the vice-principal and the guidance counselor all saying the same basic version of student needs to pay attention needs to do the work needs to stop distracting other students needs to be respectful etc etc the mother disbelieves us it's not the students fault we all have it in for the student nothing changed teaching sucks work at a summer camp and we told scary stories one of the boys in the camp couldn't sleep for the whole week because of some of the stories so his mom demanded the scary stories be banned otherwise she would basically badmouth our programs the next Monday the boy complained to me that we couldn't tell scary stories anymore and was upset about it tell that to your freaking mom an incredibly quiet student just flat-out refused to engage in any discussion in class she was an extremely pleasant girl she just wouldn't speak I brought it up with her mother during an interview and she told me she'd forbidden her daughter to express her opinion and to just listen to the teacher out of fear they wouldn't agree with her opinion and mock her down out of bias I assured her that expressing an opinion wouldn't get a student marked down in my class and that developing one is important to her learning but she just said I'd rather she didn't criminal defense lawyer here I was talking to my 23-year year-old client in the hallway before court his mum walked up to me and said forcefully he is a child do you understand me a child because she was upset that he was in trouble with the law less helicopter parents more my child is innocent understand my mum was kicked out of work temporarily from her underprivileged school until this case was settled a kindergartner had just gotten her ears and she took the earrings out in class because they heard the teacher sent her to the health secretary my mom and the little girl lost an earring somewhere along the way cleaned the ears and sent her back to class mother of the child sued my mom and filed a case with the school because I guess the earrings were solid gold and diamonds I guess that's what Claire's pierced with seems legit tried to accuse my mom of stealing the earring no chance that a six-year-old lost a tiny object of course the woman did not win in this situation and my mom got back to work but it was a whole bunch of baloney accusing the teachers and office employees at the school for a lost hearing and injured earlobe I wasn't a teacher but I did have a brief stint as a cheerleading coach kid gives an attitude about doing literally anything won't follow any instruction and usually either Sasa's me or sits on her phone additionally kid skips practice to snort xanax and put it on her snapchat okay I told her that if she wasn't interested in participating she considered the stance Friday night instead kid proceeds to go to bathroom and calls mother it's not like I can actually take away their phones try dealing with parents on that mother drives from work thirty minutes to scream at me for almost an hour apparently it is my fault her child is the best on the team and I'm clearly targeting her she says I have destroyed her confidence and I'm jealous of her talent she can do whatever she wants if she's the best on the squad who okay lady I stopped coaching after that year while I was student teaching I had a student and his mom was the art teacher the student was a straight-up douche would cheat on any assignment the little classmates etc' anytime the student got in trouble or called out he would run to his mom the art teacher and she would fight for him all the teachers in the schools were afraid of her since she has been in the district for a long time and was thought to do no wrong by the administration the student ended up plagiarizing an essay in class I gave the student a zero as it was stated in the assignment sheet that old plagiarism would be an automatic zero and all hell broke loose meetings with the principal were set up mom would come in during my plan period and ripped my ass for failing her kid and the student would come fake crying to class the work the essay was a large portion of the grade and would mean he would fail the class after about two weeks of the mom coming and I finally told her if he turned a new essay into me by the end of week he could get 50% credit on it would move his grade to a D if he got a 100% the student comes waltzing into class on Friday and hands me his essay after quickly scanning the essay it just seemed off after a quick google search the student took the entire Wikipedia page and copied it for his essay after school I went down to the art room to talk to them all I still remember the conversation like it was yesterday me em did a great job on his essay mom great he was locked up in his room all week working on it me when I looked at his paper I did notice there was an odd section though mom what do you mean me this section has a superscript number on it and I don't see where he's sitting it motton that is odd I'll ask him about it me pulls out the printed Wikipedia page over his topic that is word for word here is the Wikipedia page over his topic if you want to look at mom scanning over both interface turns ghost white will he be able to make this up me with a look of disbelief on my face he'll know the student ended up getting suspended and mom tried to fight the suspension she even went as far to look into the legitimacy of the grade since a student teacher taught the course all in all the mom is no longer a teacher in the district and the kid is in jail for selling drugs the rest of the staff loved me for standing up to her and her so okay two great stories one happened in 2006 a parent who volunteered in her child's classroom just a video tapi her child all day every day she threatened to sue if we did not allow her to she did this all through elementary it ended in middle school when they told her no she stood outside the fence and videotaped timid pen someone saw this and called the police she pulled her kid and homeschooled him too happened to a brother and sister I went to high school with the son was socially awkward tall and a little round he was in high school for only a year by himself but his mom was present at every bank function we had she even tried to come to every practice even the ones from 9:00 a.m. 9:00 p.m. but then she decided that a seventh-grade daughter was going to skip the 8th grade so she could enter high school early now she had two kids she was always at school even stopping by to lunch with them it was so sad the kids were miserable then she had her daughter slip the 11th grade literally appealing to the school board threatening legal action if they held back her child from her destiny so now she has both kids in the same grade they graduate together Mormon rolls them in Community College together in the same classes with her so she is now going to classes with them she never actually passes the classes but she wants to be with them so that the professors know she is watching since she is a student there are no grounds for having her removed the kids get ready to transfer to the local university they are done with more she tries to sit in on classes but that is a big move from day one they diverge in interests so they get their own majors then they go nuts with classes appealing to admin to take a huge load of credits they are in school day every day they can how I met up with them again was weird I was working on campus and closed the library one night I found them bedding down for the night in their old station wagon in the parking lot I offered to let them stay overnight with me they came to my house and told the tale last I heard the daughter dropped out went into the medical field I'm a nanny on the Upper East Side of New York and while my boss is a good non helicopter father I routinely have playdates with other kids I have a four eight and thirteen year old so I've seen it all my two favorites though a mother at one of my girls little friends called my boss at furious and insisting he fire me because I let a child play with sidewalk paint she was mad I made her seven-year-old use a paintbrush instead of doing the drawing for him after he told me what he wants he cold poked his eye out with a brush according to her and it was irresponsible the saddest part was that little boy told me before he left how fun it was we made the paints ourselves and then got to use them my 13 year old had a sleepover and I got a four-page list of things one girl wasn't allowed to do or eat when I asked her about it she told me she was only allergic to his ell notes and everything on the list was there because her mom didn't want her getting fat I'll let her eat with the girls we had build your own nacho slash Cressida laughing and I took them to our body gah that is legitimately less than 250 feet away it's the bottom level of an apartment building on our corner and we are not even in the middle of the block and got candy and soda to watch movies around 10:00 after they begged me to do so and her mother informed my boss two days later her kid was no longer allowed to be friends with his daughter and it was my fault as it was irresponsible for me to let four girls leave a house after dark with the chaplain or not I also have a great one about my four year old team hockey mom threatening to call CPS on me so she could get my boss attention but that's less helicopter parenting and more pathetic I'll give two examples one suburban one inner-city suburban kid asked where dogs came from not sure why I was an English teacher I said they were bred from wolves and gave two common explanations for how human interaction may have started mom called the school then called me freaking out that I mentioned evolution turned into a whole thing in a city teen sucker-punched some poor girl then punched me in the face when I broke them up ended up getting escorted off by campus cop that who was obviously a crackhead showed up to the school and started threatening to kick everyone's ass had a pretty typical red slash yellow / green behavior chart one child was just transferred to me not a completely terrible kid but had a habit of not know where the line was so it got him in trouble from time to time every time I flips his card to a yellow or red would always let the parent know what happened and what we are going to do to stop the behavior in future she then goes off on how it's the other little kid causing the problems and her child is perfect I'll let her know that while there isn't a perfect person in the scenario both kids could have acted in a different way she then stated and I'm not kidding I know that the other kid is a dirty foster child still to this day don't know how she learned this and he assaulted my child foster child pushed back after quitting hit by her child she did this in front of the other child I told her to meet me in the office had a meeting with the director and she was no longer allowed in my classroom however had to take down my behavior chart which kind of blew because of how well it was working I had a student who was failing pretty badly he had a pretty bad attitude and was extremely disrespectful when I called his father the response was you're a woman he doesn't need to respect you I handed the phone to a male mentor teacher pretty dumbfounded and explained the situation the male teacher proceeded to ream the dad out and then had the kid transferred from my class to his class the kid still failed and was still a disrespectful ass not sure what the dad had to say about that but at least he couldn't blame it on me being a woman I once took a babysitting job when I was 17 to earn some extra cash the nine-year-old child wanted to play soccer inside I told him many times not to do it and even took the ball away he had another one and kicked the bull around the house completely ignoring me he broke a lamp some picture frames after knocking down a shelf and a window when the parents came home they blamed me for the damages and thought I was screwing around in the house why because the kids said I was doing that never took another babysitting job after that first grade my second or third year I had a kid whose mother was my first lidget extreme helicopter mom she would walk him into the classroom every morning and put his backpack and folder away for him and then sit at his table with him and he would cry and cry for her not to leave the crying is normal at the beginning of the year but at this age they don't cry for very long once the parent has left after about five minutes he would be fine but she would take 20 minutes to leave because she didn't want to leave him like that I asked her a few times to let him get his things ready by himself but I was young and this kid was a surprise kid had brother and sisters with kids of their own and parents were older she didn't give a flying crap what I would say that's when I started rationalizing with a kid much easier do you see how all of your friends put their own backpacks and folders away every day you're a big boy too you don't need you mommy to do that for you do you work like a charm after the second week I started physically blocking her at the classroom door I'm a big girl have them say their goodbyes and have him go in the room by himself the first time this happened he snatched the backpack from her and said I can do it I'm a big boy she was mad one morning during the third or fourth week I had a meeting and it wasn't over before school started the person covering my class didn't know to block her and she let crazy mom in when I came back the kid was crying his eyes out chasing his mom around the classroom and she was smiling and giggling about his fit that she caused around December mom had told the kid that he was going to be homeschooled and wouldn't go back to a school when she dropped him off the next day he cried and cried and we could not console the poor kid she left him at the door and smiled at me because he was so upset when she left after a few hours he had finally calmed down enough to tell us the problem my mom said I was going to go to school at home and I wouldn't have to come here today but she lied she told him she was going to home-school him so that he would cry when she left him at public school WTF he had one friend in the class super sweet boy who would play with anyone the crazy mom kid would punch other kids if they got in the swing next to his friend no one else was allowed to swing next to him crazy mom called me and asked if I could just let them to play inside alone so her kid could have him all to himself not in those exact words but that's what she was asking no not an option cut to April and we had a zoo field trip a whole class had our lunches in a cooler that was in the bus in the zoo parking lot except his and his mom's she insisted that she carry this and she doesn't want them in the cooler whatever we had a meeting time and place for lunch because parent chaperones took small groups of kids around we didn't stay in one big group had to wait about 10 minutes for a very nice dad to fetch the cooler with the lunches perfect waited on the stragglers and let kids use restrooms and wash hands while waiting during this time kid comes up to me and asks if I have a knife to peel his Apple yeah I always bring a knife to the zoo know the kind of knife you need to peel an apple isn't allowed in the zoo just heated with the peel on you'll be fine he walks away lunches get to us and I make sure everyone is eating and accounted for come too crazy mom who is peeling her kids Apple with her car key what when she saw me walking up she said it's better to eat the peels separately it's healthier with that smile I say I hope you sanitize the key before you started otherwise it won't be healthy at all then I returned the same smile at this point she hands the Apple to the kid and he said he didn't want it she was flabbergasted why not I just spent 20 minutes feeling it for you he said that's gross you used a cookie and walked away to play with his friends there are more stories about this parent from other teachers as he moved through the school she once snuck into the school to get a picture of him taking his first standardized test this his / was literally against the law in TX photographs during state testing and they had to contact the testing officials and fill out tons of paperwork and our school had to reschedule the testing dates all because crazy mum wanted a picture of her baby taking his first test for his scrapbook didn't mean for this to be so long sorry that mom still pisses me off when I think about her and how she effed up her kids life this is a little different from the rest of these but it sprung to mind I taught a five-year-old who's very eccentric and wealthy mother came in to meet with us before he started to tell us that he had some developmental and social issues and needed a little extra attention and help understanding things note that at this age a lot of kids aren't officially tested yet for anything he comes in and we discover after a week or two that he is absolutely 100% freaking fine developmentally he's just horribly behaved and has never been disciplined in his entire life he was the nightmare who was rude entitled and bratty but he was perfectly smart and once we got through to him about what behavior was expected of him he could easily do it she was a lazy parent too instead of admitting that he was a brat chalked it up to disabilities to sum it up there's no way that my child can be wrong something must be wrong with him not a teacher or childcare taker but I remember when I was in eighth grade this little kid about third or fourth grade was really weird and hung around us while we skates boarded one day he decided to come up off her I fell and just humped me I was obviously mad and told him to go away and he didn't well I fell another time and he humped me again I was livid I told him if he doesn't go away I'll tell his parents then he just walked up to me while I was sitting on the bench and humped me again I told him I'm going to tell your parents and he bolts inside his house closing everything all the guys and I were with fed up too so I decided to go to walk to his house and knock on his door no one answered for about a minute then both his mom and dad dad was a cop come out I told them what he did well his mom completely ignores what I say and then explains well he said he punched him multiple times mind you I did not punch this kid but I did push him off twice when I fell and pushed him away from me when I was on the bench not one of the times did he fall or stumble I just gave a simple push she continues to berate me saying I'm a child beater and then the dad chimes in and says he should arrest me well of course I start crying the cause I'm scared by again reiterated that I never hit him I simply pushed him because of his unacceptable behavior then they tell me how he has ADHD and was just acting out I say well I was diagnosed with that a couple years ago and it's never made me doing anything like what he did then the dad screams if you don't get off my lawn I'm going to arrest you and starts walking towards his cop car all of us run away as fast as we can and I run home well after a while my dad gets home and I tell him all of this so he calls his buddy who's the guy superior and tells him what happens apparently the dad was going to get a promotion but they just kept him as is he got suspended from the police force for a couple weeks and got kicked off the neighborhood board members committee they suspended him on unlawful use of power or something like that he came up to my house and personally apologized put his house up for sale but took it off because it never sold they're still there and the kid is still is tricked up today

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Published: Wed Jul 01 2020