What's The WORST Example Of Bad Parenting You've Ever Seen? (r/AskReddit Top Stories)

what's the worst example of bad parenting you've ever witnessed a mother let her kid play in the stream of woodchips coming out of a wood chipper and yelled at the guy who was cutting down trees because he told the kid to get away from it she was on her phone the whole time there could have been males and stones in that wood that could have hit the kid but nope it was the blokes fault for chipping wood and not letting the kid plane it I went to breakfast with a good friend and a friend of a friend we pick up the friend of a friend who brings her three-year-old son along the kid is crying and making all kinds of noise the mother responds by telling the kid that I have a gun and if he doesn't calm down I was going to shoot the kid first-hand account my mum would let me work during the summer from 7 to 7 and when I came back to the hotel room shed pay for another night get me a REM see chicken and then shoot up heroine while I watched TV edit did not expect to come back to this this happened many years ago when I was about 10 or so my mom's ex friend well call her Pattie for the sake of this story well one day there's a knock at the door and mum goes and opens it to find Patty's son John also not his real name who was only about five years old at the time his mom is sitting in the car in our driveway and has just standing there by himself my mom says hey there John what brings you guys here today little John then replies mom said to ask if you have a can mom says they can like a soda can John says I dunno she said she needs a can so she can smoke her crack my mom who was most certainly not any sort of angel herself fumes would anger over this she says John go inside and play with me close the door and don't look outside so John comes in and I put some cartoons on for him to watch I then peek out the window whilst he is occupied with the show my mom is screaming at patty through her open car window i cold hear what was being said but they were both screaming at each other and then my mom punches patty in the face through the open window Paul open her door drags her out of the car onto the drivel way pavement by her hair and beats the ever-loving sin out of the woman after she finally lets Patti go Patti gets up gets into her car and drives away with her son still in our house luckily my mom was friends with Patti's brother-in-law which is how we knew her in the first place and she called him who in turn called the kids grandpa since he himself was at work to come and pick him up grandpa apologized profusely for Patti's behavior and took John home with him I've seen parents lock their two children in their bedroom so they could play whoa w anytime the kids came out and did anything kids normally do they were immediately sent to their room the lock was changed so it was on the outside the most disturbing thing I saw firsthand was unlocking the door and nearly puking from a foul smell they shoot themselves and throw it into the ceiling fan [ __ ] was everywhere Child Services was contacted not long after edit yes should hit the fan and the fan further liquefied said shoot and slung it onto everything their hands were covered in it and they were using it to finger paint on the walls as well I still have no idea how long it took them to clean it all up my sister was worried that a seven-year-old son wasn't at the level as the other kids and considered holding him back a year she didn't end up going through with it but my brother-in-law found this development super funny and kept openly mocking his own son until his own son starting crying his eyes out and needing a hug I was absolutely horrified that his own father was acting like a schoolyard bully in the prosecutor so I've seen a lot of really terrible parenting once we were investigating a man for sexually assaulting his girlfriend's 14 year old daughter the girl was interviewed and disclosed that he had in fact been having sex with her the detective went and told her mother what she had disclosed and mom's response was so you're telling me she's gone from being my daughter to being my competition edit of course a fourteen-year-old can't consent to have sex with adults that's why we were involved I didn't mean to offend anyone by not using the word grape we had a girl in our foster care program whose father used to get mad because she would throw up when he would greet her he fixed this problem by handcuffing her to the toilet when he did it we had another kid that was incredibly good at making paper airplanes like he could make one and tell you how far it would go which way it would turn how many flips it would make TTC before he ever threw it I asked him one day how he learned and he said whenever my parents abused me I would just go to my room and make paper airplanes that kid made a lot of fricking airplanes turns out he was one of the worst abuse cases our DHS had ever encountered in the county he was from I could go on for quite a while hard to pick just one I was driving along my street when this 4 to 6 years old kid rolls out of a driveway on a tricycle I come to a stop and wait for him to get out of my way as he seemed to be doing his mother runs down the driveway and just starts screaming at me rather than get her kid out of the road another car comes up behind and without waiting just goes around clipping the kids tricycle knocking him on the ground and the lady just screams at me even more she won't stop or get out of the way I finally just held my horn down until she gathered her kid up and got out of the way some people are really messed up when it comes to accepting responsibility I was following a car through town one day and we were coming up on a green light the property on the corner lot we were driving past had large stone fences so you cold and see cars coming in the cross street well all of a sudden when the car in front of me is like 20 feet from the intersection of cyclist rides through his red light right out into the intersection in thinking this guy's freaked but the car in front of me reacts instantly and slams in his brakes and manages to swerve around the back end of the cyclist spike after the commotion we both make it through the green and get stopped at the next intersection the cyclist sees this changes course and pedals fast to get up to the car in front of me he starts punching the cars window and spitting on it and kicks the door and the rights off it was surreal he made a huge mistake by running a red and the only reason he wasn't seriously hurt was because of the good driving done by the guy I was following so naturally he proceeds to try and has sold the guy that saved him months of recovery I work at a fast food restaurant and while what I see probably ice and what most people would consider the worst I still see quite a bit of bad shoot going on a lot of loud emotionally abusive parents yelling at kids kids that lock dirty kids without proper clothing in bad weather just everything was a truck driver once in my life saw two parents on the road with a crying child maybe eight years old in the back beige took turns shooting up heroin in a teacher the examples of bad parenting I could give are staggering the worst examples end up with me calling Child Protective Services like the child who talked about maked family time or the 14 year old who left school to play the designated driver for drunk parent or any number of other things day to day normal bad though is any parent who talks shoot in front of their child I don't care who you're bad-mouthing don't do it in front of your child all that comes to school all of it edit for clarification the naked family time was from a girl in fifth grade and there was more to the story it sent up in our thread flags that I contacted CPS she ended up being removed from the home I worked as a cover supervisor in a school for a couple of years and the crap I experienced was insane I work with thirteen to nineteen yachts so they already had enough issues managing normal everyday teenage struggles but the things some of the parents did to app to their burdens was disgusting I ended up leaving to work with adult learners mainly because my degree is in a subject not taught at school level but it was a relief in a way not having to watch these kids suffer I still lose sleep worrying about some of them teachers are so underappreciated and no one seems to consider what you see and have to deal with well for being a protective influence for those kids an irate mother of a girl in a private schools music program made a big scene in front of the faculty and students because her daughter had not been selected to sing a solo in a school concert the student had been very clear to the faculty that she didn't want the part nor was her voice sweeted for it still her overbearing mother insisted that she audition against her will as a result the girl was yanked out of the school she loved by her parents and embarrassed all because the mothers ago required that her daughter be the shining star in front of others a little while ago in a supermarket in London a young girl was screaming at the cashier for asking for ID for the large bottle of vodka she was buying as the cashier continued to ask for ID the girl opened her coat to reveal a large swollen belly and shouted of course I'm old enough to drink vodka in freakin pregnant my mother's mother was a pretty shooty one she won't let her go to school because she wanted her to become a housewife she let her boyfriend sexually abuse my mother when she was little and seduced my mother's boyfriend's lived under some horrible people for eight months they would have parties in the middle of the week till 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. regularly but one particular disturbing story there girl around 10 to 12 was having regular night terrors she would wake up screaming we lived in the basement their bedrooms were on the second floor so a whole story between us and we could hear the dad stomping down the hallway and slam open the door and start screaming at the top of his lungs you better freaking knock that shoot off stop crying you should head there nothing but freaking dreams you hear me dreams it's nothing worth crying over worst neighbors ever we never felt sorry that our dog barked all day he hated them when their kids started crying our dog started to cry and whine and howl in sympathy but the adults he would bark and snarl at loved people of all ages that dog I could trust his instincts of a good human I know downright tragic examples of horrifying parenting but fear such Downers it'll go with a story which has more of a slightly humorous element to it in a red light in the right-hand Lane right-hand turns on red are legal where I'm there's a car coming but it's a ways away I turned right and cross into the left-hand Lane as the incoming car was driving in the right-hand Lane and I didn't want to have to accelerate too fast the upcoming car slows down to my speed woman hangs out of the driver's side window with a beer in one hand fats on the wheel and a cigarette in the other eye flipping me off and says be careful Mathur freaka I've got kids in the back then she sped off well above the speed limit a woman on the bus told her approximately six-year-old son to tell an approximately 11-year old school girl to move out the way but referred to the girl as that fat cow a lot my shoes probably displaying pretty bad parenting skills myself as I was taking my son to school that i couldent let it pass a freak here we go not my story but my mom since she's a school teacher kid came in with a huge ass rash in my mother's class she thought it was her B's asked if he felt fine and he replied that he had a rarely painful throat losing rash all over the kid's face my mother rushed him to the nurse and the nurse freaked out turns out the kid had such a severe case of strep throat he had infection oozing from his skin they called his parents and all the parent had to say was we already took him to the doctor and we don't want to drive him back he'll be fine my mom reported it to Child Services and tried giving the kid some salt water she feels so bad but legally she can't do much other than that my mom felt horrible for him edit changed huge as rash to huge ass rash it is not in as rash but rather a huge-ass facial rash I met a girl in college who had lived with her aunt for a few years after her parents had died and the art literally tortured her she told me about how she would be kept chained to the a kuhn even starved she still had trouble gaining weight and growing hair when I met her because the malnutrition had gotten so bad over time that people do shoot like this to each other pisses me off to no end I knew a girl in school house mother had done that to her and her sister when the dad was out of town on business which was very oft Phoebe locked in their room without food or water for literally days and the mom would feed them shortly before the dad would be coming home he cold and figure out why they were so skinny acting so strangely and being in the closet and stuff he thought his kids were like super messed up they were just too terrified of the mother to tell the dad what was going on the girls eventually started trying to break out of the room and the mom started tying them to their beds eventually the dad learned the truth and happy ending the mother hasn't seen them since I just can't understand treating someone that way especially your own kids I was traveling through India I don't speak Hindi so I didn't understand what was being said or happening but some old lady turned round to a very passive little five or maybe six years old and then slapped her across the face with all her force it was heartbreaking the kid just sobbed she didn't even scream I think she must have been used to it this like five year old kid emptied a full pint bottle of milk all over floor at supermarket where I worked and her mum just stew bare and watched to add to that the child managed to place the empty bottle in the center of this now two meters wide puddle and the mum just looked at me and said you've got some cleaning up to do unbelievably rude here in Belgium new parents receive money from the government at the birth of each kid to help with the initial costs like diapers baby bottles strollers etc it's about $2,000 a kid if in not mystic well I knew a guy who decided to have a kid because he needed the money to buy a new computer to play games the whole day obviously at a movie theater sitting in the fourth or fifth row with friends this was a rated R movie two kids maybe four and seven year old are in the audience they start playing and running back and forth at the front of the theater the four year old falls and starts to cry the parent doesn't bother to get up my friend finally went to console the child after a few minutes the mother never bothered to get up young Lee saw her mom on the train smack her kid for not sitting down then smack him again for crying then smack him again these where and like Pat's Ivor what youngmee saw next still gives me a justice boner a fairly grizzled noncom opposite the woman put his book aside stood up and yanked her out of her seat by the front of her shirt he held Heather legs dangling and said rough translation if you do that again I'll show you how it feels to be slapped around by someone much stronger and a lot meaner than you sit down he then tossed her back in her seat picked up his book and kept on reading I have a friend who's always had trouble sleeping when she was young and didn't want to go to bed her mother would tell her she'd die if she didn't go to sleep so she'd desperately tried to go to sleep but would be kept awake by her fear of not falling asleep that's horrible I hate bringing up death as a threat when in talking to kids but sometimes it's the only way you can get the seriousness of a situation across like warning a kid that if they wander into the street they could get hit by a car and died may sound bad but it keeps them from playing in the street and keeps a lot of people not just the child safe when I was a cashier this mom came in with her son's piggy bank the kid was with her and must have only been about six years old he wanted to buy a candy bar with his money but the mom told him now that his money was going to help support the family she then proceeded to buy a six-pack of beer and some cigarettes with the money while the kid watched the poor boy had tears in his eyes the whole time I refused service to her and manager ended up bringing her up she was paying with mostly pennies and nickels and while she was distracted I saw the boy walk over to the candy rack and wipe the tears from his eyes I asked him what was wrong and he told me it had taken him three years to save that money that his mom didn't have a job so she took it from him I bought him the candy bar he wanted and gave him a bunch of quarters for the Gumble slash toy machines his mom saw him trying to get one of those sticky hands from the machine and then took all the quarters he had from him f ck that lady I worked in retail for many years I seen a lot of stupid stuff and even more related to kid slash parenting but there were two that came to mind first was a girl and her dad coming in to return a CD she purchased at the time not sure if it's still the same the policy was CDs DVDs as well could only be exchanged for the same title when defective due to copyright and the ease of pirating it the guide customer service explained the policy apologized etc dad turns to the girl who is 9 to 10 and just gets in her face in a complete yell telling her she should have read the policy before opening it and needed to know what the frick she was buying and just screaming nearly incoherently until this girl was immediately in tears the guy at customer service told the guy to shoot up and stop yelling at her the guy turned to him and started to yell at him he later said he figured a guy with that temper would turn it on him and at least he spared the girl more verbal abuse in the end due to all the yelling and the fact it was a CD our manager made an exception let them exchange it etcetera the second one is quite a bit worse we were remodeling the store moving the car audio departments to a new location which meant after the store closed a bunch of us would stay overnight move shelves product etc the third night we were doing this around 11:30 or so a little kid no more than 7 to 8 walks out rubbing his eyes like he just woke up sees us start screaming then another kid 11 to 12 maybe comes running out from behind a box in appliances at first we just thought they fell asleep so he called the police when the two kids saw the police they started crying and explaining how their mom and her boyfriend had hit them there and they were supposed to open the side door when the clock shows 12:00 they bring out a wristwatch with the alarm set for midnight the cops had us all move our cast to the side of the building so they were not visible from the street and well when the parents knocked it wasn't their kids that opened the door standing outside a supermarket a couple of years back a woman walks out toddler in a pushchair a kid who might have been about 7 or 8 walking maybe five feet behind her the older kid had a small rubber ball and was bouncing it on the ground and catching it he seemed perfectly happy it wasn't making any noise or bouncing around or anything it wasn't bothering anyone he was just bouncing and catching his ball as he walked the woman I assumed it was his mom noticed this after a minute spun around and grabbed him hard by the upper arm and then shouted right into his face if you keep bouncing that fricking ball him going to smash your [ __ ] face in shook him hard once and then just turned around and walked on with the pushchair the poor kid just looked so emptied like he wasn't even allowed this one small pleasure it doesn't matter how annoying you find it when your kid bounces a ball that's just never an okay thing to say to your child Eddie to AP's this wasn't in a parking lot it was in a pedestrianised plaza area route France small in a city supermarket next to a library and other stores there was no traffic and it wasn't crowded I used to work on a pediatric cancer floor we had a little girl who was dying make-a-wish gave her a Disney cruise she was so excited to go she talked about it for weeks the week she was supposed to be on the cruise she was admitted to the unit with a fever we were all like what happened to the cruise it took a while but we eventually learned the truth when her grandmother told us what happened her parents took the spending money they got and went on her all night partying binge the night before and were wasted and passed out when it came time to drive to the cruise ship we could not even look at them ever again when they were there and yes we got DCF involved yet I was waiting in the vehicle while my wife ran into a grocery store to grab a few things a woman comes out with three young kids under the age of eight were both parked right next to a place to put your shopping cart but she leaves it between the noses of our vehicles none of the kids are old / big enough to sit up front but wonders without a seat belt another kid in back doesn't appear to be wearing a seat belt and the third kid is just standing and holding on to the front two seats while the woman drives off my wife comes out and starts telling me about a woman with three kids who were acting Andrew Lee and cursing a bunch then I tell her my story it was the same woman I have a friend of a friend who has a couple kids one having cerebral palsy anyways we were all at my cousin's one night drinking and playing rock band while the kids danced around and did kids stuff some way or another the mother of the kid saw a car drive by slow and thought she recognized them as someone who owed her money or whatever and decided to tear off after them I come out of the bathroom having heard all the commotion and all the adults were gone chasing after whoever it was so now I'm stuck with like five kids I'm drunk and tired as hell I threw rock them back on and gave all the kids instruments had to unplug a couple but we still managed to make it through the next 20 minutes or so the CP kid ended up being pretty good at drums though I was at a family reunion a few years back me and my friend who we brought along decided to go swimming in a hotel pool we were swimming and this little girl tried playing with us so we played with her after a while my friend told me I don t think anyone is watching her so we asked her and she said no this girl said she was five and she was with her brothers I went to the front desk and told them there is a little girl unsupervised in the pool and told him her name and they called the family we waited with the girl for a few hours and even fed her finally someone did come and get her I remember this exactly are you pools kids the man said and they responded with a yes and they left the sad part is the dad cold would be bothered to watch come get his five-year-old kid and her like eight-year-old brothers [Music] [Music]

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