What’s Your HORRO Story With BAD Parenting From STRANGERS? I’ll start…

What’s Your HORRO Story With BAD Parenting From STRANGERS? I’ll start…

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what’s your Horror Story with bad parenting from strangers I’ll start Story one I used to work at a sandwich shop and there was a man in line with his son the little boy was a bit bouncy and kept tugging on the man’s arm saying Daddy I need to potty real bad and the dad would say in a minute son this went on for like 5 minutes and the little boy says Daddy I have to potty now and the Man all of the sudden turns to the Sun and backhand him across the face and yells at him I told you to wait a goddamn minute and the boy bursts into tears my manager was right there and she was in a fury she started yelling at the guy that he was an unpleasant person and a horrible person and she told him to get the fudge out of her store and never come back the guy was like mind your own business this is my kid and I can do what I want and she said leave now before I call the police so the man hitched the boy up by his arm and practically dragged him out of the store the worst part they were less than 10t from the bathroom the entire time that poor kid story two used to babysit for a very dysfunctional family the mom got knocked up on purpose so the dad wouldn’t leave her subsequently the dad hated the mom and resented the child I know this because they fought about it often publicly and in front of the child when I would arrive the baby would always have a very dirty diaper that had obviously been left like that for many many hours the baby’s first word was her own name and then my name not mama or Dada her own freaking three- syllable name one day the child had no milk or baby food left and the mom goes to the store and comes back with just a pack of cigarettes I asked her why she didn’t get anything for the baby and she said well I didn’t have enough for both and I don’t get paid till Friday it was Wednesday and she was just going to let the kid go hungry for 3 days there was nothing edible in the house I flipping lost it I don’t think I have ever raged out on somebody so bad in my entire life I let her have it for a good 10 minutes screaming at the top of my lungs the Litany of reasons why she was a failure as a parent and how I was going to call CPS if things didn’t change anyways she burst into tears and took the cigarettes back and came home with milk so I guess it kind of worked I ended up making pureed veggies at home and bringing them to the little girl for the rest of the week they moved away shortly after that and I always wonder what happened to the little girl edit I was 16 at the time story three oh man where do I begin I teach first graders and I’m convinced most parents should not be raising children here’s my most recent Story one day I start afternoon class and I ask my students how they are doing one girl says bad and I ask her why she says that she’s hungry because she didn’t eat lunch I ask her why she hasn’t had lunch yet and she says it’s because her mom was playing on the computer and she forgot to feed and then didn’t have time how the hell do you forget to feed a 7-year-old later I brought her a snack when I had a minute because there’s no way I could let a kid go without food story four I recently had an encounter from the other end of the spectrum I was cycling through the downtown area when I passed this Chinese lady who let her tiny kid I’m guessing about four or 5 years old walk on the street side of her and just as I pass this kid is making some excited gestures at his mom happily jabbering about something while simultaneously pretty much running backward right into the side of me while I’m cycling at full speed he goes flying backwards I’m pretty sure I hit him right in the face with my knee I stop horrified to check if the kid is okay he’s making this face like he’s inhaling a huge breath of air to start balling but before I can get of the bicycle or he can start screaming his mom looks back sees what’s going on and just Snips a few words of Chinese at him the kid just looks at her instantly regains his composure with obvious effort I’m pretty is hurt and he quietly runs up to her the lady just smiles and waves at me and walks of at a Brisk Pace with her kid and I’m just left standing there looking completely stumped at the bystanders who seem just as confused that kid is going to grow up tough even if it terminates him I’m pretty sure his mom is going to make sure of that story five I used to work at a crappy gas station convenience store one day a woman come up to the counter with her daughter she places on the counter hot dogs hot dog buns craft mac and cheese sixpack of Corona she then asks me for a pack of cigarettes after ringing up all the items she swipes her debit card and it doesn’t go through she tries several times after about the fourth time she turns to this little girl who couldn’t be older than six and I cow you not she says looks like you won’t be eating tonight and walks away leaving her little girl at the counter tearing up I was dumbfounded and before I could say anything the little girl yells to me you’re a big meanie and ran out the door crying worst Thanksgiving ever story six while queuing in a coffee shop in England two police officers walked in the door and went up to the agit ated looking woman in front of me they started questioning her about her son asking when she had last seen him how old he was what he was wearing Etc so it was fairly evident from the conversation that she had quite recently lost her six-year-old kid both officers kept confusedly looking around the shop until the woman felt obliged to explain why she was in there saying I’m going to look for him I’m getting me and my husband a coffee first go on ahead we’ll catch up after picking up my order I turned around to see them both sitting at a table drinking their coffees like not even a single fudge was given as I walked out the door I saw the woman peer out the front window looking for her son I suppose story seven I was at the mall once and there was a young family in front of me the little brat in the high chair didn’t like the cheeseburger from McDonald’s they got him so he wailed and screamed and then picked up the cheeseburger and threw it at the dad painting his shirt with mustard and ketchup the dad then went up and got the kid another meal I remember thinking if I did that to my dad I wouldn’t have made it out of the mall alive 8 I work for dii this is why I love and hate my job at the same time Mr B came in with his small children told us they love going on the motorcycle his dad just bought a side car so they just strapped the car seat into that they used to just attach the baby to their bodies with a belt on the motorcycle they feel the sidecar is much safer Mrs M she’s leaving Bobby who is in jail well leaving him until he gets out she’s going to live with Carl she won’t have to worry about the finances no more they’re going to get Social Security Disability cuz he’s kind of slow that’s how she said it so she talks in front of her 14-year-old daughter about sleeping with Carl then says you won’t believe what my daughter sticks in her cooch she had my hair straightener it was so gross and it don’t even work no more this young 18-year-old mom gave her kids Kleenex because they like to eat them Pika anyone I told her she can’t do that especially not in my office when I leave to send a fax for her lazy Peach she gives them more Kleenex we had to have a talk about the kids choking Etc and I told her you can’t do that bad person kept doing it we called CPS she was pissed a mom came in with diabetes I suspect uncontrolled she acted crazy had her newborn in an umbrella stroller not hooked in says she can’t remember how much the baby eats but he did take a 9 o bottle that morning which for a newborn is madness she then says that she sometimes has diabetic episodes who knows what she meant so she liked to have bottles prepared to feed the baby in this case does that even mean are you unconscious at this time who is feeding the baby if baby daddy is at work called CPS again a mom poured powdered jello mix into her child’s mouth in my office she likes it and it’s fruit right seriously her case worker just looked at her and said see I told you I witnessed a mom having her baby taken from her by CPS in our office that broke my heart and was very hard to hear she screamed through the office all I kept hearing was please don’t take my baby it was a newborn she was on sweets when it was born so when the candy test came back she had already been discharged if they don’t suspect sweets right away the testing is delayed so they had to set up a sting at the office made a just look like [ __ ] that take babies away and people already don’t trust the WIC office I have also had countless children hold my hand and want to stay with me I have gotten many hugs and they have sat on my lap those are the ones that break your heart if they are showing a stranger so much affection you know they aren’t getting it at home they are craving it a mom came in sharing a pacifier with her baby she would take it out to talk to me then put it back in her own mouth I had to ask her to remove it she then was curious that her and her baby have these little red bumps around their mouths well stop using her oh no Binky and I bet it goes away countless parents have given up their baby to the grandparents because they didn’t care for that gender one set of grandparents didn’t like their grandkids because they were triplets I have so many stories edit spelling story nine I went to a BBQ thrown by a friend of a friend there a woman showed up with her ex-husband and his new girl all three were drunk and a bit too friendly with each other while alternating name calling bad person bad person unpleasant person with them was a 2 or three-year-old little girl cute as can be with a real light about her I vely remember them telling very inappropriate stories when the little girl says she is hungry the father goes and gets the bag of McDonalds he had been grazing out of and pulls out a near full container of fries he proceeds to grab a few and throw them on the flipping lawn the girl without missing a beat runs around picking them up of the lawn dirt and eats them he repeats this over and over in front of all the other adults who didn’t seem to take issue it was like a game to him that he was clearly enjoying Mom even smiled at it my wife and I promptly left the party story 10 I was lining up at the register at some store and there was a girl 10ish and her mom in front of me and the little girl asked her mom if she can get the Harry Potter books because they’re on sale and the mom replies why do you need the stupid books for we’ve got a big Telly you can watch the movies on or there was another time when a little boy asks his mom for a hug and the mother slapped him from distracting her while she was counting money story 11 I worked at the YMCA in Houston and we did programs that reached lower income neighborhoods the kind full of crime and poverty Etc one day we were letting the kids go and we watched the rides leave as a security issue one of the kids had made a drawing earlier that he was particularly proud of and showed it to his dad Gleaming the dad immediately snatched it out of the boy’s hand ripped the drawing up and smacked the kid in full view of us employees he went on about how he shouldn’t be doing no cow like drawing and smacked him a couple more times needless to say we called the authorities and he was arrested for child abuse or something similar story 12 I worked in a grocery store in a poor neighborhood for several years trust me I saw bad parenting on a daily basis I have two examples one many of our customers were on welfare obvious because they paid for food with food vouchers equivalent of food stamps I guess and the type of food they would purchase would give me rage face seriously one time we have a woman trailing three kids none older than six with a $200 food voucher her cart would be full of junk food cookies chips crisps carbonated sugar drinks and some instant foods like now keep in mind that it’s far cheaper to buy crackers cheese meat Etc the components of a Lunchable and it’ll be much health much less sodium and then she’d have $100 of expensive cuts of meat for those wondering when you get a food voucher you have to spend the money on food so for those who want to buy alcohol or cigarettes the common scam is to buy some quality meat or some bulk food then go sell it under the table at a restaurant buy a $100 of meat sell it for $50 with that money they can come back and buy cigarettes Etc it’s painfully obvious to those of working at the grocery store particularly when they walk in a few hours later with cash but what do you do I’m sorry but you obviously don’t even know how to cook f m that’s discrimination two I also worked in loss prevention one day we get this kid in who is maybe 10 years old I’m watching him on the monitors and it’s obvious shoplifting he sticks something down his pants so I had to intercept him at the door as I stop him and ask him to hand over the stolen goods I’m expecting chocolate bars or candy but he pulls out a toothbrush and toothpaste I’m speechless I just try to imagine what kind of parenting creates a kid who goes to a store to shoplift toothpaste how sad is that I just took the items and said get out of here but in retrospect I should have done something more and of course I’m not even mentioning the parents who would let their kids go crazy running around knocking down displays but at least I had the power to throw them out of the store if they were causing a disturbance and I used it frequently story 13 three examples all the same set of parents one they have a seven-year-old almost eight by this point Point who is not potty trained not still wets the bed or has the occasional accident when frightened or excited nearly every time we get together with his family this child has dirty pants very noticeably smelly dirty pants and does nothing about it even when prompted one incident when this kid had just turned seven the family was at our house and dad comes out to our living room to tell Mom that kid a smells a little poopy maybe she should do something about it Mom replies oh I didn’t bring anything the bathroom accident might have caught her by surprise is but not us we have noticed how often this child himself and we had everything she needed to clean him up two new unopened containers of wipes along with powder and a change of undergarments even after we provided the parents with this Mom needed some arm twisting to change her son they did nothing at all to address this issue even after they were reported to CPS by a nurse lack of toilet training in a child over three is often a sign of close relationship abuse and are only now beginning to address it because his school will not accept him back for classes until he is trained part of their failure to deal with the problem is likely denial and I understand that admitting that something may be a Miss with your child is terrifying but this feels akin to criminal negligence on their part two during a visit to the home of this family while Mom was still at work I was left to watch the aforementioned kid a when Dad decided to quickly run an errand kid a aged six at the time insists on standing in the road to watch for the return of mom’s car and screamed when I bodily picked him up around the waist and carried him out of the road when Mom returned he described the situation as just about any six-year-old would mommy thorough isn’t the boss of me mom’s reply you’re right not it doesn’t matter if thorough is the boss or not you know you’re not allowed in the road not thorough isn’t mommy or daddy but we put thorough in charge while we were away nothing just you’re right thorough is not the boss the Mind reels three kid a has been terminating Japanese beetles all morning screaming as an actually shouting [ __ ] o Beetle every time he spots one when he spots one on my shoulder he screams out his Beetle war cry and physically climbs up my body to squish the bug into the cloth of my shirt I tell him in an authoritarian Voice kid a get down you don’t climb people like trees come on now dad pulls kid a aside and in a tone of weedling condescension says thorough is a liberal environmentalist and doesn’t want you to terminate any bugs because thorough wants to take the bug home and hug it and squeeze it and call it George as though a the only reason I would mind a screaming 40b child who reeks of how again clambering up my person would be a Namby pambi unwillingness to let said child terminate a garden Pest and that this Namby pombi attitude was worthy of being ridiculed I wouldn’t have let a screaming child who was stewing in his own feces climb all over me if his intent in the end was to give me a waffle cone overflowing with my favorite flavor ice cream dad either did not notice or was completely unwilling to acknowledge that his son’s Behavior was completely unacceptable I have seen other parents who don’t keep on top of every incidence of bad behavior on the part of their children and I’m willing to chalk some of that up to exhaustion on their part or to distraction but this couple’s long-standing pattern of what cluelessness complete lack of regard for others such as those who have to clean up chairs and Floors after a poopy child has been through it just burns me heck it’s been nice to rant here since it allows me to get my frustration out of my system and since talking to these parents leads nowhere story 14 I spent 4 years working in child care and can regail you with story after Story of both good and extremely poor parenting one in particular that still bothers me to this day just because of the blatant brainwashing of it I am a white female in my 20s and many of the people who worked on staff with me were younger than me and fairly uninterested in their job duties so after seeing a few kids get hurt because of the lack of supervision by my co-workers I became hypervigilant about making sure my group of kids were properly monitored and rules were followed I wasn’t a serious hard ass just no pushing fighting stick throwing Etc Etc General stuff not to get the kids hurt anywh who near the playground area was a large covered area for rainy days the older kids would often play Four Square dodgeball basketball Etc in there because the floor was concrete and the walls were brick there was one kid fourth grade so about 9 or 10 years old who fancied himself an acrobat he could always be found doing cartwheels and handstands on the concrete and I would always tell him to stop he’d always say why I never fall I’m too good to fall I’d say yeah I know know you’re good but even the best Olympic gymnasts fall and hurt themselves pretty bad and they fall on pads imagine if you fell on this concrete it would be a whole lot worse he never listened and just continued to do the same thing day in and day out I eventually started putting him in timeout because he wouldn’t stop every time I’d sit down with him and explain that the reason he was having to sit out was because he couldn’t follow directions directions that were meant to keep him safe his mother was a teacher at another school so I assumed that she would understand I was very wrong one afternoon when the mom comes to pick up her kid and asks to speak with me she wants to know why I’m picking on her son I explain to her the routine her son and I have fallen into him doing potentially dangerous handstands flips on concrete me telling him to stop him ignoring me me putting him in timeout she says I don’t know if there is some sort of cultural difference going on here but you are targeting my child I’m slightly taken AB back here and I’m thinking did she just call me a I tell her no ma’am I can assure you I’m not targeting your child there are plenty of other kids that do the same thing he does and they get the same treatment the only difference is that they stop after being told in time or two your son doesn’t she hits the roof oh so you’re saying my child is stupid is that it all you white people think people are stupid she’s ranting she’s raving she’s screaming at me at my place of employment I’m completely speechless the kid meanwhile is just sitting back watching with this grin on his face and I realized this is such learned behavior he knows to play the race card because he’s seen his parents do it he knows he’ll eventually get what he wants if his parents raise a big enough stink about it it made me sick eventually our conversation ended with me telling her that I would happily turn a blind eye to her child and happily let him break his arm because of his poor decision-making but I wouldn’t because letting him slide would set an unacceptable precedent for the other kids I would continue to do whatever I needed to do to keep her child and every other child safe while on school property and if she had a problem with that then she could take it up with the principal story 15 I’ve been a nanny for a little over 5 years so I’ve seen my fair share of crazy families but there’s one babysitting job that sticks out more than any other my ex’s mom referred me to her hairdresser so when she called me I was pretty excited to go to her house and watch a 4-year-old boy that everyone raved about being so adorable and fun he sure was cute but fun is not the word I would use to describe that night she left telling me she would be home anywhere between 10: p.m. and 2: a.m. came home at 4:00 a.m. and got mad at me for falling asleep on the couch the kid had the worst ADH I have ever experienced before and there was absolutely no food or drink other than margarita mix and a 2 we old half gallon of milk which he said he drank earlier that day in the fridge all of the sippy cups that they owned smelled like rotten eggs I felt so bad for this boy I looked through every drawer to see if I could find anything to give to him and all I managed to find was workout supplements steroids needles lots of different pills like fenter mine and edrine I bought him some dinner got them a fresh gallon of milk and never came back to that house again story 16 we went to a soft play center with my niece the other day one boy managed to find this big red ball and jam it at the bottom of the slide his little brother then proceeded to go down the slide and get stuck chaos ensued for a while as they tried to get the boy out the parents were effing and jeffing away at the staff eventually they swindled a free Brew out of the place then they gave their daughter a lollipop no food is allowed in the actual play area she ran around the play area and climbed the stairs to come down the slide we were watching all of this whilst keeping an eye on my basically getting her to stay out of the way the parents made barely an effort to get the Lolly offer she then went into this little viewing thing made of perspects with the lolly in her mouth and was dribbling her drool the proceeded to drip down to where we were sitting we left promptly after being completely grossed out they are by far the scrod family I have ever come across and a very good argument for contraception edit she now has headlice also story 17 I once saw the queen of chavs at a shopping center in the UK she was talking to her friend friend smoking her cane and her little girl maybe about four or 5 years old starts asking for a hug the M ignored her for a bit and then suddenly bends down blows a huge puff of breathe in the kid’s face and shrieks Charmaine I’m aan a unpleasant person I didn’t know which was worse what she had just done or that she had called her kid Charmaine story 18 in high school I made friends with this really shy guy who stuttered and was generally socially awkward but really nice he was also a genius pianist he was taking 2 years for for one at his piano courses he was composing amazing pieces at the age of 16 and I truly admired his ability his parents however didn’t see it that way they were both engineers and they considered his love for music despicable worthless and a bad habit that needs to be uprooted when he was practicing at home they tossed old shoes at him and they made him sleep on the floor if he played for more than 2 hours once a professor from the musical Academy called them to tell them they have an amazing son and that he could be famous one day they to the sky up the phone when high school was over he really wanted to apply to the musical Academy but they didn’t let him they said that the only courses they would ever fund were the ones in math and geog the qualifying subjects for the economy University so he had to go there for his higher education I haven’t seen him in a while but I heard he went abroad I hope he escaped those idiots for good story 19 not my story but have a friend who is a teacher so I hear all kind of depressing nonsense think this is the worse a young girl’s K3 Rd grade mother was a woman and would bring guys back to the house and have three ways with the young child involved she would only talk to my friend and she tried to help the best she could despite physical marks bruising Child Services never did anything despite many attempts at help fast forward a couple years the girl is out of my friend’s school but finds out one night the girl probably 8 nine just loses it and beats the living cow out of her mother almost to death Cops show up and arrest the child and ends up in a juvenile prison for assault the mother is paralyzed and living on the taxpayer dime my friend came over and cried non-stop when she found out and felt like she had failed the child this is just one of many stories this is why I have more respect for teachers teaching is almost secondary to all the stuff they have to deal with story 20 my mom is a teacher at a primary school England in a really bad part of town woking him the stories she brings home are appalling from kids who have never been read to or even talked to much who come to school age5 without being able to speak in proper sentences also the saddest thingss often involve parenting from the previous generation the standout event being a mother who came into my mother the music teacher and SBS that she doesn’t know any nursery rhymes to sing to her children which was one of the set tasks for bonding type homeworks she spent an hour with that woman teaching her Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Story 21 I was at a mall playground with the wife and two kids my son was 3 years old and was running around with about 20 more kids most of them his age keep in mind that kids can’t be taller than 3 ft to play in this little kid playground there was this one fat woman not being just describing and she was watching about four kids and all of them were taller than 4T and they were playing rough pushing each other and whatnot my son goes around the area they were playing at and start playing by himself and one of the kids tries to kick my son my wife my wife is 5’2 and 100b calmly walks that way with my three-month-old daughter and tells the women she is like 56 and about 250 lb to watch her kids because they were playing a little rough and she said okay whatever my wife stays there watches just in case something happens the older kid goes running towards my son and pushes him my wife tells the kid who’s about nine not to push my son the woman flips the fudge out and starts screaming don’t scream at my baby blah blah blah my wife tells her she should pay more attention to her kids and how they were too old to be playing around smaller kids she tells me wife to shut the fudge up and not tell her how to raise her kids my wife starts walking away and the woman starts getting louder so from my seat 15t away I yell at her you do not talk to my wife that way your kids are misbehaving and you are doing nothing about it learn how to be a good parent she shuts up and looked at me in disbelief she didn’t know I was with my wife or that I would talk to her like that in front of so many people she then started to talk nonsense again and we ignored her after 5 minutes of her cow my wife got the security guard and got her Peach kicked out of the place 15 minutes after she passes doing threatening signs at my wife but when I look at her she stopped and looked away I was seriously raging and about to beat her Peach but I tried my best calm down down and be a responsible adult story 22 if you don’t wear these Pink Shoes I’m buying for you I’m going to all your rabbit’s heads off sadly that was actually my dad talking to a 10-year-old me in a thrift store he then proceeded to get into an argument with a woman who said you are the most horrible person I have ever heard in my life and called her a manher and safic before we finally left compared to some of the other stuff that’s relatively mild yeah fudge my childhood story 23 I was at a movie theater and we had just walked in and sat down in our seats since the theater we were going to was open an employee probably around 35 years old walks in and asks everyone a small handful of people to leave for a few minutes so he can clean it he had a stutter and had some type of disability the employee was super friendly and nice about having to ask us to all leave this Dad lobstery beerbelly off sleeves who was there with his three pre-teen and teen kids started making fun of the employee and the way he spoke joking mimicking and trying to get his kids to join in with him eye that bad person out story 24 mid 20s man enters BEDA with sun maybe five IRS old man go get what you want kid runs to Cold Case gets small container of milk runs back is just tall enough to put it on the counter man what is that cow you said you were thirsty go get something else kid takes milk puts it back in Cold Case gets a Pepsi bring it back to Father man okay put it on the counter Story 25 I worked as a waitress for about 4 years one family was very rude and demanding every time they ate there their children five 10-year-old range would snap at me or shake their cups to get my attention when we didn’t come right away the children would literally start screaming while the parents laughed another family had a 12-year-old daughter that would take all the sugar packets from the table and play with them much of the sugar ended up on the floor or on the table once I figured out what she was doing I would go take away the basket before they sat down oh only saw this family in there once but it was a tatted up Gangster couple the moment was not older than 23 they had four kids let them run around the restaurant untamed and basically ignor them the entire time they made a mess of the tables and didn’t even tip oh wait they also tried stealing Quarters off this cancer research donation thing we had story 26 I work customer service at lbls parttime while I go to school lucky me I’ve grown resentful of people and one day I encountered a lady who was absolutely flabbergasted that her milk on which the expiry date was clearly written went bad she was complaining and complaining had the store manager called down the front end manager the dairy manager too once this whole deal was handled she turns to her 14-year-old daughter aox 14 and says now that’s how it’s done story 27 the other day I was waiting for my maid at the top section of our local shopping center a suddenly hear crying from a little girl at the top of the escalator looking down and screaming Mommy I asked her where her mommy was and she pointed down I had a look down at the escalator and there were a few people coming up but none looking at the kid so I decided to take the kid back down the other side to look for her mom 10 seconds later as I was walking around she starts hugging this woman on the escalator who just said no I honestly have no idea what happened that day and all the people around looked at me like a pedo bear as I a 24-year-old male I hate that generalization as well story 28 about 3 years ago when I was a senior in high school a few of my friends and I were getting food after school at Chipotle being the only Chipotle in the area it’s always filled with people and has a long line but it’s always worth the wait this mom who honestly looks like she’s been abusing meth for years is is in front of us with her absolutely adorable little daughter who could have been between the ages to four the daughter had a doll and accidentally took the arm out so she hands it to her mom to fix all you need to do is literally stick it back in and it’s as good as new instead this mom takes it from her and screams you flipping broke it again that’s the third time this week she flipping throws it in the trash and the girl breaks down in tears the girl says but mommy I can fix it I saw how you did it last time then went to go retrieve it from the trash the mom snatched her by the arm Yanks her to the floor so hard that it was obvious this little girl’s arm must have become dislocated judging by the scream coming from the girl and the actual positioning of her arm I mean every single flipping person in that restaurant got up and went to help the girl and get the mom the fudge away like four people called the cops and we all waited to make sure she was carded off by the authorities I wish I knew what happened to that girl but I really really hope that she doesn’t live with that woman anymore abusing children breaks my heart equal sign story 29 I work in social services so highlights include the 10-year-old on probation after getting intoxicated on half a bottle of tequila the 14-year-old whose mother told him he was the devil and she hated him because he told her he was an atheist the dad with a 14-year-old daughter and 20-year-old living girlfriend the latter who would regularly borrow the daughter’s clothes at a Goodwill with boyfriend a girl maybe three four with an obvious mental retardation is left alone in a shopping cart while chatty mom is chatty the girl stands up in the rocking cart parked over conk mom is still gossiping away nearby the girl begins to Teeter precariously and boyfriend runs over and Dives catching her like a football literally a foot away from crashing her skull into the concrete mom turns around and proceeds to glare at boyfriend before snatching her child back and continuing her conversation one of the worst the 12-year-old 400b girl who in addition to the horrific nutrition had never been taught hygiene like at all I cannot exaggerate how much this poor child R and you could honestly not be within 5 ft of her without the overpowering urge to vomit worse while working with us there was an incident where she bled on one of our seats we asked her about having her period and she said that she didn’t have it we asked how often this happened and she said about once every 3 or 4 weeks she had been having her period for a year and had no idea also she defecated in my car story 30 I used to work at Marshalls and we had a small toy section there was a little boy about two sitting on the floor minding his own business playing his mom who was on the phone found this unsatisfactory and took off her shoe and beat him with it she checked out still talking on the phone with that boy crying in toe our manager said we couldn’t do anything about it because some kind of code of conduct still makes me sad to think about it story 31 waiting for an oil change there was a white mother and her mixed white daughter maybe four or 5 years old with me in the waiting area the waiting area had some sad looking children’s books and toys the kid was trying to do a puzzle and asked asked the mother for help mother said no the kid kept trying to finish the puzzle to no avail and finally asked mama why can’t I do this puzzle mother responds cuz you a dumb Peach story 32 headed up to the San Juan Islands Washington State I’m on the car deck about to walk off before the cars little girl about four or 5 is walking back and forth excited to get off the ferry the workers are about to raise the gate and let the passengers off so Dad to my left say come hold Daddy’s Hand Mary at which point the girl turns to her dad in flipping spits at him his response actual quote in a sing song voice no sweetie don’t spit at daddy if I pulled that nonsense growing up I would have been nursing a sore butt for days edit I suck at pre- Coffee spellchecking story 33 I was biking down the bike path near the lake on my right there was a family picnic and everything seemed normal until I saw the MOM stand up take a leather belt where she got it from I have no idea she was wearing a dress and smack it across her three-year-olds I’m guessing at the age face it actually looked almost comical the way the kid flew backwards and landed on the ground where his mom proceeded to beat him I had never seen anything like it it all happened so fast while I was on my bike I was 100t away by the time I realized what I’d seen I would have gone back except I was 10 and by myself with no self-confidence especially against someone like that story 34 I work at a child psychology clinic it’s like as soon as some parents walk through the door their kids become the receptionist’s responsibility once a kid pulled thumbtacks out of the wall and was chasing her brother around trying to stab him his parents were sitting right there and they did nothing I had to intervene cuz she was trying to stab her brother with a thumbtack I told her they were boy thumbtacks if she held them for too long she’d turn into a boy she dropped them immediately story 35 I work at a Sailing Club and at the end of the day as we are waiting for the last few parents to pick up their children one parent walks up to the club with a student who had already been picked up they said they saw the kid sitting on the grass in the parking lot thinking this was weird I asked the kid where his mom was he didn’t know so we called his mom to find out what happened now the Sailing Club is a big place so I figured they just got separated but when I asked where she was she said she left him there because and I quote he was being a little cow so I left him oore o following the second or two it took me to process this I told her she needed to come pick him up which she did but it took more convincing than it should have BTW this kid was maybe 8 years old story 36 two cases both in London about 15 years ago I knew knew a woman with two kids one 12-year-old boy and his six 7-year-old sister the mother was a speed fiend she used to disappear for three four days at a stretch and leave the kids totally alone the kids had all the latest consoles and toys and stuff cuz she was a crafty bad person who knew how to make a pound note but the kids were totally marginalized once she left them with someone who assaulted the boy and still left for days after that I always wonder how they turned out the second was a kid who was left in a squat in Hamstead that looked like the Adams Family Mansion three or four stories high I felt creeped out in there there was no one in the house there were candles burning and this kid was hiding under a table or in a Cupboard it was years ago I think the kid was about five my friend found him we called the police took a lot for us to call the police in them days that was it there are some horrible parents in London story 37 former cashier at Panera no exaggeration here this group walks through the door and I hear my co-workers say under his breath yeah that’s what happens when you keep it in the family it was seriously gross the father was wearing a sweat stained t-shirt sporting a spotty unkempt beard hairstyle we’re talking Tom Hanks towards the end of Castaway here and some seriously thick spec he’s holding his very queerly dressed and unfortunate looking daughter’s hand I’ve got to believe she was at least 16 in the creepiest way everyone’s wearing really weird ill-fitting dirty clothes the other kids have some serious facial deformities kind of fetal alcohol syndrome e and the mom is crotchety and gross ignoring the father’s hand on his teenage daughter’s Peach I can’t imagine them being too poor since they were buying food from Panera Bread they all ordered tuna sandwiches and lemonade came up for refill after refill and I had to smell them my co-workers who had been there for longer than me said they came in all the time and were always Mega weird and gross I did see the family a few other times same story so if you count incest as bad parenting then yeah bad parents story 38 worked at a department store at the mall for 3 years to pay for college our store was one of the huge anchor stores in our City’s largest mall and right next to the food court play area at about 5:00 p.m. some employees see a group of four children walking around in our store the oldest was a maybe 7-year-old girl and the youngest was just barely 2 years old no parents in sight one of the friendly Grandma employees approaches them and calls the security guard after learning their story the four kids belong to two different women who came to the mall to have a girls day shopping trip and left the kids in the play area while they shopped it had been a while and the 7-year-old got nervous and decided to go searching for their moms the kids are taken upstairs to the manager’s offices and given some snacks crayons and things to color the 7-year-old is getting nervous and keeps asking to go back to the play area after getting a description to Mall security they go on the hunt for moms police are called Etc a mall security goon is posted at the play area with a description of the moms waiting for them to come back 3 hours later the mall security dude brings the moms into the store to pick up their kids a cop meets them there the women are Furious we stole her kids and I was checking in on them every 20 minutes the cop informs them that this is impossible as the kids have been inside our store for the last 3 hours much eye rolling and irritation coming from the moms while the cops explaining to the moms how much trouble they are in one of the moms looks at the seven-year-old with narrowed eyes and a slow headshake telepathically beaming you are getting so whooped when we get home the cop observes this and goes into full Berserker mode this lady cop built like a gymnast and actually quite pretty gets up in this woman’s face and screams at her chewing her up and down if you lay a hand on any of these kids I will personally come throw your ghetto peach in jail your children could have been abducted assaulted disappeared over 3 hours ago and you just now be finding out they are missing I am writing you a citation and Child Protection Services and state social workers will be making surprise visits to your home frequently if anything is out of order with these children you will lose custody and probably go to prison do you understand me the wide-eyed ghetto moms having been sufficiently humbled get their paper arrest and Shuffle out with their armfuls of shopping bags and kids to their respective Vehicles story 39 not really strangers because I’m married to one of them now but when I first started dating my wife and I went to visit her and her son at her father’s house they were just piling on the kid like you would not believe everything he did wrong resulted in a nuclear explosion that they saw as being corrective but what I saw as being borderline abuse so I sat my now wife and her father down and explained it like this there’s this movie called office space my now wife got the reference immediately one of the vast number of reasons we’re married now and I told them the story about how the guy had seven bosses and every time he screws up he has to hear about it seven times they were both yelling at the kid every time he screwed up which for a 13-year-old is pretty frequently sometimes 20 or 30 times in my presence alone I told them they’re going to drive him crazy and he’s going to go Coline on their asses if they aren’t careful so they asked me what I would do I told them to go to an office supply store and buy a whiteboard they can stick up by the front door loaded up with his chore and make him check them off when he’s done then instead of yelling at him 50 or 60 times a day you just ask him if he’s checked off his board it worked he’s going to be 15 in a few weeks and doesn’t even really need the board anymore story 40 one of my friends had a party she throws them frequent and we throw the kids in the playroom with snacks and activities and the adults play board games and drink Margaritas the kids all get along and leave us alone unless they need something the last time she invited another couple who allowed her kids they were a little older 10 12 to stay in the room and ched us for saying oh no and hell we were bending over backwards to keep our conversations kid-friendly and avoid dropping f-bombs and hinting that the kid party was downstairs but they just kept silent as their precious Darlings corrected us every time we said the most benign curse words story 41 FDNY firefighter in uniform in Supermarket serial Isle talking to someone on a cell phone he’s a [ __ ] I told him he had to go to school he starts crying like he’s half a unpleasant person or something ah boo boo I don’t want to go crybaby unpleasant person no I don’t say that to him he has self-esteem issues so we have to tell him all the time how great he is turns my a stomach so what cereal does he like Fruity Pebbles figures story 42 my 14-year-old daughter does and wears what she wants because her mother my ex has decided that she would rather be her friend she thinks that because our child is in dance every day of the week that she will never get herself into situations the mother is completely blind and when I step in to actually try to do some parent parenting I’m told to fudge off and it’s none of my business by both mother and daughter it’s terminating me knowing that there is a huge virtual brick wall headed straight at her my only hope is that this wall isn’t a life-altering situation and it’s something that will hopefully be fixable any suggestions story 43 I used to work at a deli in a mall on the East Coast we had an unobstructed view of one of the entrances and was a great place to people watch one of the guys that I worked with Jack had a high-pitched and fairly effeminate voice stick with me becomes relevant one day Jack and I were on Deck during a lull we were talking and watching The crowd’s Mill around when we both see a man dragging his for 5-year-old towards the mall doors to leave next thing we know the guy starts flailing on the kid’s rear because he wasn’t keeping up next thing I know Jack grabbed a 12-in knife from the counter and yells hey knock that cow off now in the deepest voice I’d ever heard the dad looked up saw this guy with a crazed look on his face holding a butcher knife and he scooped up the kid and boogied out of there Story 4 4 I was in Arizona in a Walmart and I saw a woman using her baby stroller to steal clothing by putting it in the stroller the baby then started crying really loudly while she was leaving the section so she put her hand over the baby’s whole face and held it there until these two Native American women came one punched her and moved the baby and the other kept kicking her on the ground until security story 45 went to an ex-friends house and their method of watching the youngest 8 months of their three kids God help them was to pull pillows off the couch and surround found her with them in the living they then proceeded to visit with me on their front porch and drank beer I hate them with a passion edit these same parents let their one-year-old daughter break her arm twice in the span of 3 months parents of the Year story 46 I have a ton of these from different places I have worked but this is my favorite warning it’s definitely a I feel so bad for laughing story because it is absolutely ridiculous I worked at a very busy movie theater and one day I was sweeping up the lobby when there was a mother and her little girl probably about 4 or 5 in the front of the concessions line I was sweeping near them and the kid was doing the usual Mommy I want popcorn Mommy Mommy I want popcorn Mommy get popcorn thing over and over which is annoying but it’s a movie theater and I know that for me the experience isn’t the same without concessions with the exception of the period after working there when I was sick of pop so I understood but I digress so the kid news with the begging with the mom’s agitation increasing and when I get right in front on them the mom snaps turns to her kid and says shut PE do you want Mommy to just go home and terminate herself is that what you want a dead Mommy because that’s what will happen if you don’t shut up right now and it will be all your fault I stopped sweeping froze with an expression that was a mixture of shock and poker face and ran off quickly before I could yell what the fudge is wrong with you or start laughing at how sudden and insane it was it was horrible and absurd who says that to their tiny child that kid will have problems story 47 I’m a father of four my wife stays home with the kids and watches our neighbors two kids for extra income this woman will drop off her kids wearing the same clothes from the day before sends them to bed with sippy cups full of soda and gives them gum and candy for breakfast one day she even sent her 2-year-old with an adult toothbrush to play with for a toy as soon as she leaves our house for work my wife confiscates the candy and junk and then feeds them decent food the best part is she used to be a social worker before she moved to our area story 48 I used to work at a movie theater and I definitely saw my fair share of bad parenting worst story I was selling tickets on Father’s Day and there were a lot of dads taking their kids to see Horton he’s a who which was the popular kids movie out at the time a man walks up to my till with his daughter who looked six or seven and asked for two tickets to The Happening the little girl asks me if it’s scary and I go on to tell the father that yes it’s probably going to be scary and it’s rated R Etc the little girl starts telling her dad that she wants to see Horton Hears a Who that she’s scared and doesn’t want to see this movie he tells her it’s not going to be scary and that it’s Father’s Day so they should see a movie that he wants to see I gave this man the most disgusted look while printing his tickets and told him to enjoy his father’s day a few seconds later my friend who who was tearing tickets came in and told me that the girl had started to quietly cry when they got inside then there was that one time when a lady walked out about an hour into her movie and asked if she could go to her car to grab something she forgot I said e e e e