These Parenting Fails Left Us Shaking Our Heads
Being a mom or a dad is really hard, but come on, this is pushing it. From insane helicopter parents to nightmare parent-teacher night experiences, these stories of unbelievable parenting fails range from the embarrassing to the disturbing.
1. Stronger Than Any Lullaby
My mom always struggled to be there for me, but my dad waited until I was grown up to tell me about her worst act.
When I was a little kid, my mom had routinely given me a ton of sleeping pills so that she could leave me at home alone to maintain an affair with her lover while my dad was off working in another country. That cleared up many, many things up for me…
2. No Means Yes
I'm a teacher, and after a student's parent's divorced, the mom taught her toddler son to say "No daddy's house" even though he loves his dad. He understood "yes" and "no" perfectly before this.
After she did this we had to re-teach it by taking things away when he said no, he didn't want it. He was so confused and cried so much. His mom is literally the devil.
3. And Then There Was One
We had a parent who invited all the boys in the entire third-grade class to a professional baseball game and backstage tour of the stadium for their son's birthday. There was just one problem. He left out one kid. Just one! To top it off, it was a school day too. So the one boy who wasn't invited had to go to school and be the only boy in the class. No emotional scarring there at all, right? What horrible parents!
4. Noticeably Bad Parents
The parents that bothered me the most were the parents of a boy with special needs. Every day, they sent him the same lunch: macaroni with nothing on it. I asked them at the first conference why they did this. What his mom said broke my heart. She told me, "It's not like he'll notice." It was sad because he really did notice.
When we had special lunch days, he would get so excited about hot dogs or pizza. It's indicative of how they treated him overall. They didn't try to engage or stimulate him at all.
