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30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids After they discovered that I hadn't done homework in a month, they took me to a home & remodeling convention with them. They spent hours looking at aluminum siding and various granite counter tops.

Strange? Yes. Did it work? Also yes. It was f*****g awful.

StoolToad9 , Laura Heimann Report

Final score:

191points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

Bore someone into submission.... I like it :)

80points

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I think I've shared this in comments before, but my parents made me write letters as punishment. For example: my mom caught me lying about showering (I would go into the bathroom, turn the shower on while I stood outside it, then wrap myself in a towel and pretend I was clean) and my punishment was to choose a soap company and write a letter to their customer service department about why showering is important. I would love to know what the person who got that letter thought.

anon , Hannah Olinger Report

Final score:

187points

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Timmy Pillinger 1 year ago

Probably framed

59points

Most of you Pandas will agree that at least some boundaries and rules are needed when raising kids; the question is—to what extent? Your point of view will depend on your particular family situation, how you were raised, and what you’ve found to work best in your experience.

According to the research done by developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind and Stanford researchers Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin, there are four main parenting styles. These are: permissive, authoritative, neglectful, and authoritarian. These approaches vary by how much (or how little) parents respond to their children’s needs, and how demanding they are. They all have their upsides and downsides, with the authoritative approach being the most balanced out of the four.

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids In highschool, I got caught drunk at a friends house. They caught me in a lie and eventually tracked down the party, and I was found passed out beneath a trampoline with a beer in each fist. I had to crawl from the car to my bed, I don't even remember it happening. My mom later said she had to walk away because she was laughing so hard, because I kept falling asleep on the stairs.

The next day we had a family function. My punishment? They told my 6 incredibly Irish uncles and my incredibly Irish grandfather all about how hung over I was. I was basically left in the wolves den with raw meat tied all around me. They tossed me around, made me fetch them things, smacked me on the back, shoved my face, poked my stomach, rubbed my hair, noogies, flicked my ears, poked my temples, forced me to drink another beer (made me puke just smelling it), made me dance, stuck my head down by the speakers playing loud music... all in all I threw up three times and didn't drink for the next 4 years.

Lamprophonia , Jeff Vanderspank Report

Final score:

186points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

I think I would get on with your uncles.

66points

When I was in maybe second or third grade, I kept oversleeping and missing the bus and my mom had to drive me to school, which she understandably was getting a bit exasperated over. She told me that if I missed the bus again, I would have to walk to school. I didn't really believe it, but the next morning I missed the bus again and she told me to start walking. My school was several miles away, and not a safe, walkable trek for a kid, so she slooooowly followed along behind me in her car, pulling over whenever another car came up behind her to let them pass. A few minutes down the road, my neighbor saw me and asked what I was doing, and I told him I'd missed the bus and had to walk to school. He offered to give me a ride, and then my mom rolled past at like 0.25 mph, rolled down her window and called out, "no, she's walking!" He looked pretty puzzled, but left us to it.

She didn't actually make me walk the whole way--she picked me up after about 15 minutes, before we hit a major route that would have made the walk unsafe--but it absolutely had its intended effect. I was so unsettled and embarrassed by the whole thing, I (almost) never missed the bus again.

Basketeetch Report

Final score:

155points

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Leigh 1 year ago

The day of my school finals which were mandatory to graduate the bus never came and my parents were at work.My school was in the next town and miles away. Had to cross a dangerous high way. It's a miracle I didn't get run over. So mad at the bus company/driver.i was so late

46points

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids i used to accidentally lose the remote for the tv (it's now solved by securing the remote to the table with a cord). The punishment was not just to confiscate my ps3, but instead he hid the controller without telling me so i knew how frustrating it was when your s**t goes missing. I guess it makes sense but it felt super weird when you're just used to normal punishments.

Spicy_Toeboots , Axel Mencia Report

Final score:

133points

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Sonja 1 year ago

This is actually one thing on this list that's an example of great parenting. It showed the child why it was bad what they did and taught them empathy. It's important that children learn to attribute their own emotions to other in controlled and harmless situations to develop empathy.

97points

For example, a permissive parent is someone who is incredibly responsive to what their child needs, but barely has any demands. So even though they communicate very openly with their kid, they almost always let them decide what to do themselves. These parents usually don’t set expectations, don’t enforce rules, avoid conflict, and don’t provide much guidance.

Contrast that with a neglectful parent who is mostly indifferent to their child’s needs. Usually, this type of parent struggles with self-esteem issues and has trouble forming close relationships with other people. Generally, they are uncaring and unbothered, though not always on purpose.

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids When I was a senior in high school, I did something stupid (don't remember) so my parents took my car away for a week. I responded with "good, the heater in my car doesn't work" (it was December). My dad went on to drive me and my innocent freshman brother to school in his truck with the windows down for the rest of the week.

Edit: Because this is getting so popular, I feel I need to come clean. This did not actually happen to me... I am the innocent little brother.

GStaGib , Andréas BRUN Report

Final score:

121points

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I think I’m hilarious 1 year ago

That punishes the dad and brother just as much

46points

Sonja 1 year ago

Yeah and that makes this very bad parenting

3points

ThisIsMe 1 year ago

So now you've LIED to us! Pandas - what shall his punishment be?

7points

Your Neighborhood Alien 1 year ago

Taking away all of his bananas so he won't be able to judge the scale of things?

7points

Leigh 1 year ago

I missed the bus and as punishment my dad took me to school in his wore out bathrobe. The biggest hole was in the butt area. We got so sick of him wearing what we called his holy robe we pinned a note to his butt while he was asleep.

4points

Maltaros 1 year ago

I have always been hot-blooded. I still often roll the window down when it is cold outside and never close my bedroom window. (Another reason why my wife and I have separate bedrooms.)

1point

Micah<3 1 year ago

Yeah, I like sleeping with my window open in winter and the fan on, and if I'm wearing clothes instead of pjs it's always a short sleeved shirt!

-1point

AK to LV 1 year ago

In the winter, my brother would pick me up from basketball practice in junior high. On the way home, we would roll down the windows, turn the heat all the way up through the vents, and turned the music up. We called it California cruising.

0points

C C 1 year ago

sure u are.

0points

Mora Chilis 1 year ago

Why is this here? Its fabricated

-2points

TailsFangirl03 1 year ago

No, he just said it was him who did the thing when it was his older brother according to the edit.

0points

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I was bullied by two kids throwing rocks at me. One hit me in the mouth and knocked a baby tooth out.

I took my belt off and hit them in the face and chased them off.

Their parents came to my house and said I attacked their son. Despite my missing tooth they sided with the bullies parents. They spanked me in front of them and didn't allow
me to wear a belt for a week. I also wasn't allowed to talk because I "lied".

I was bullied for years as a result, and it was always my fault for "wanting attention".

LaChuck552 , Garett Sitz Report

Final score:

116points

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I think I’m hilarious 1 year ago

I’m so sorry. That’s such a toxic way to treat a child

194points

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I was given the silent treatment for cleaning out the fridge without being asked. My parents grew up poor so I think a full fridge was reassuring even if it was full of gross leftovers and condiments. Still it was a pretty immature way of communicating that to me

FaMulan358 , nrd Report

Final score:

108points

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KJ 1 year ago

I can understand the parents being annoyed if the leftovers weren't spoiled and the condiments were in date.

42points

Some people embrace authoritarian, aka ‘tough love,’ parenting. Stereotypically, they enforce very strict rules, throw their authority around, and enjoy control. They are incredibly demanding, but aren’t very responsive, meaning that communication is often only one-way. They aren’t much concerned with their children’s feelings. As such, their punishments may be considered to be too stern or even harsh by many.

Meanwhile, authoritative parenting is a healthy blend of permissive and authoritarian parenting. Authoritative parents are incredibly responsive and demanding of their kids. They set clear rules and expectations while also being as flexible and understanding as they can. They value communication. They consider their munchkins’ opinions while also guiding, nurturing, and supporting them.

#10

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My mom wouldn't let me eat for more than a day so the only food I got between dinner one night and dinner two nights later was the chinsy school lunch. My crime? My brother was torturing me and made me eat s**t out of the trash and left a mess. She came home from work and was pissed there was a mess so she said we weren't allowed to eat anymore of her food until we learned respect. My brother left that night. 2 days later my uncle came to check on me cause my brother usually watched me and he had left. He asked if I had dinner and I told no and why.....that punishment ended quickly.

dnjprod , Katya Wolf Report

Final score:

104points

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KJ 1 year ago

I hope they moved in with the uncle.

92points

#11

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids Took away the power cord to my PlayStation leaving behind literally everything else. To taunt me I guess? Jokes on them Sony power cords were universal—thank you boom box power cord.

sea_shack , Ben Iwara Report

Final score:

100points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

My mum used to do this with my ethernet cable when I was 16. She didn't realise I had a wireless dongle as backup.

32points

#12

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My mother, sick of the fact that sending me to any sort of timeout/grounding where I was alone resulted in nothing (I'd either find a toy, magazine, or nap), one day came to the realization that "Go outside" was an option.

I was repeatedly grounded by being sent outside to play with my best friends instead of playing alone.

__end , Yanapi Senaud Report

Final score:

99points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

My mum used to get frustrated because I used to read when grounded. She knew that taking books away is insane so struggled to punish me.

49points

The authoritative parent tends to view punishment through the lens of natural consequences, by allowing things to take their course. Some examples of this can include failing a test if you don’t study for it or not having any dessert if you throw a tantrum and toss out your ice-cream cone. They help their kids reflect on what happened and learn from their mistakes, meaning that they grow up more disciplined and independent than others their age.

#13

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I didn't like to eat in the mornings when I was young (8-9 years old) because I had a nervous stomach before school (reasons).

My dad was going into work late and insisted I eat the apple jacks cereal in front of me, he was getting very angry saying things like, "you waste food - you gotta grow up and quit being nervous" because that super helped.

I told him that the apple jacks tasted funny. It really tasted weird and then I saw the small white things floating in the milk and suggested the milk was sour. Obviously he called b******t - got so mad at my 'lie' that he made me eat all of it and drink the milk.

Then I went to school and threw it up and got to go home! Take that Dad!

Bodymindisoneword , engin akyurt Report

Final score:

98points

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OmBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)

If this were done to an adult it would be aggravated assault with battery.

81points

#14

Growing up I had a set of children's science encyclopedias. My Mom would pull one at random off the shelf and make me read it cover to cover (they were roughly 100 pages each). Once I said I was done, she would turn to random pages and quiz me. If I got more than 2 wrong, I had to go read it again. I guess that's why I have a ton of useless information in my head.

Jedimonkey1976 Report

Final score:

92points

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Gardener of Weeden 1 year ago

So sad, that she made learning a punishment. I used it as a reward, games, presents (books), " go and read a book and I will bring you a snack" type of attitude. We still share interesting facts.

57points

#15

I used to stay up all night reading when I was a kid, to the point where I’d fall asleep in class the next day because I hadn’t had more than a short nap.

My parents tried enforcing a lights out time. They tried taking my books away from me. I always found a way to sneak it back, or to sneak a light source. Sometimes I’d just get a different book.

Eventually my father made a wooden box. It was big enough to hold any book in the house, and it contained the loudest alarm I have ever heard. At bedtime, my book would be taken away and placed in the box. The box would be placed on my windowsill. And as soon as the lid was opened the alarm would go off and wake up not only my family, but also our neighbours, and one time even the people across the street, who happened to have their windows open at the wrong time.

I started sleeping properly after that.

jamaispur Report

Final score:

86points

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Jason 1 year ago

I wonder if this works on adult me

32points

#16

My mum confiscated my IEC cable so I couldn't use my computer. 4 days later she found a mouse in her shoe and I negotiated an early release of the cable in exchange for a rudimentary pest control service.

winch25 Report

Final score:

86points

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Gin 1 year ago

Are you a computer literate cat? 😜

45points

#17

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids Not me but my sister had a situation where the entire bathroom started smelling like pee. She cannot figure this out so the next couple weeks she smelled and looked for the cause of this. Well she eventually found out that her two sons six years old and seven years old would stand in the bathroom tub and pee from the tub into the toilet and of course pee got everywhere. Once she found this out the punishment for the two boys was they having to sit down every time they had to pee. She would occasionally follow them to the bathroom and listen and if she heard what sounded like people standing she would add another month on to the punishment.

moneycomet , Chastity Cortijo Report

Final score:

83points

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Sonja 1 year ago (edited)

The better punishment would have been to make them deep clean the bathroom every time it happened from then on, and then later put them on a cleaning schedule so everyone cleans the bathroom regularly and they learn to respect other people by not causing more work. This is not really smart, but all they learn from this is to do what they want anyways unless forced to behave without understanding why it's bad

84points

#18

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I was having a literal fistfight with an older cousin (he was a prick. Still is, actually).

My papaw grabbed us both by the shirts, dragged us out the back door and said we couldnt come back in the house until one of us was no longer standing. Seriously encouraging an 11 year old girl and 15 year old boy to beat each other shitless.

So we beat each other shitless.

He finally just laid down on the ground because we got thirsty and tired. We got to cone back inside.

anon , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

82points

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Donna Clanclan 1 year ago

Had 2 nephews, a year apart in age, refuse to get along. Every time I had to babysit them it was constant fighting. I knew what their problem was, but the parents decided no therapy. Tired of it one night, I led them both outside on the back porch. The porch was over the water with no stairway off it. I went back inside and closed and locked the glass door. Told them to fight it out and they were only allowed back in when they agreed on who was the winner. They were so shocked that an adult would do this they banded together to change my mind. I sat in a chair rocking the baby and eating mini marsh mellows as they desperately explained to me how making them fight was wrong. After putting them through some intense negotiation of games/TV/Movie time and the loss of those if they fight around me again...we came to an agreement and I let them back in. After that, they didn't fight around me. We did pack in a lot of fun things during those times as there was no longer time wasted fighting.

54points

#19

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I started working on my homework late, so my mom made me stay up all night "since i didn't care about sleep". I was a sophomore in highschool....

I said something along the lines of "studying an hour earlier would really help my future, clearly worked for you since you're so successful as a part time librarian who thinks vaccines cause autism and no real friends". She cried but wouldn't budge on the whole no sleep thing. My dad woke up and just said "be nice to your mom" and "let him sleep that's just insane".

theImplication69 , Jonas Leupe Report

Final score:

79points

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MicrowaveGoddess 1 year ago

OP's mom is crazy

43points

#20

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I said I hated one of the girls in school. 'Hate' was a bad word. I had to invite her over and be nice and get to know her. She was a b***h at age 7 and she's still a b***h at 31. It wouldn't seem too weird since they were trying to teach me that people have value or some s**t like that (idk, I don't have kids), except that recently the girl was mentioned in conversation and my mom ranted about what a little s**t she was as a kid and how she was an example of a girl that needed to be slapped for the nasty things she said. What the f*****g f**k Mom?

Beachy5313 , Chris Hardy Report

Final score:

78points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

In life, sometimes we have to deal with cünts. Think that may be the lesson, no sure. Not everyone is nice, no one is perfect.

37points

blueeyesredlipstick , Ricardo Esquivel Report

#21

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids When I was 8-9 or so, y mom was mad that I had taken my sister out to sit in the car to wait for her to drive us to grandma's (I had misunderstood something she'd said and thought we were leaving *right then*, as opposed to later that day). She was upset because she said it was hot in the car and I shouldn't have made my sister sit out in a hot car. So to punish me, she...locked me in the hot car, with the windows rolled up, to show what a bad idea it was. And when she came to let me out, decided I was being too sassy and decided to keep me locked in there even longer.

Final score:

76points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

Well... That is super illegal.

91points

#22

This is the strangest punishment I gave my parents.

So there was this point in time where the toilet water wouldn’t stop running unless I flip the handle. I would always flip the handle and stay there until the water stops running. However when someone would use the toilet and forget to flip the handle my parents would accuse me. This happened so often; they would always accuse me of what I did not do. So to retaliate I just stopped flushing for a while. I did that until they agreed to not accuse me.

Palerthanghosts Report

Final score:

75points

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Raye West 1 year ago

Parents should have just fixed the toilet, lordy

60points

#23

I grew up on a farm. I went into the city one time and stayed with some family. Decided to sneak out and go drinking with the city kids. Someone found out I wasn't in bed and called my mom. So 4 am my mom drives into town and just so happens to see me on the side of the road coming back. Well I got yelled at a bunch and didn't get back to my home in the boonies until ~6 am. It was summer so the sun was starting to come up. My mom's logic was if she couldn't sleep because of me, I couldn't sleep because of her. So there was this field we used to train horses about 2 km from my house. Had a bunch of barrels and stacks of tires as obstacles. So I was kicked out of the house with the doors locked and tasked with putting these barrels and tires against the fence of this huge corral so that we could bring in a backhoe to remove the rocks that surface every couple years. So I walked there and did it, finished at about 10am. Walked home and tried to get back in. So my mom got me to get in the truck with her to go inspect that it was done. Well APPARENTLY she wanted everything against one side of the fence and I had simply move the obstacles to the portion of fence closest to it. So she dropped me off and made me do it again before I had to walk home. So, that f*****g sucked and I learned a valuable lesson about being sneakier

n0isefl00r Report

Final score:

72points

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tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 1 year ago

`I learned a valuable lesson about being sneakier` love it

84points

vonadler , Marco Verch Professional Photographer Report

#24

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My mom had a period when she met a new guy and married him and wanted to "toughen up" her spolied children. I lived with my dad, but was visiting for summer.

I was 14 and I have always, always hated mushrooms. My mom has always resented this, as we were poor and mushrooms were a good way to fill out stews, pasta sauces etc. and everybody else loved them. She forced me to "taste it" every damn single time, convinced I was just being fussy, making me detest them even more - even today, 25 years later, I can still puke instantly if I taste the texture of mushrooms.

So she makes fried vegetables for breakfast. About half of it is mushrooms, the cheap, nasty canned version. I say I don't want it. She goes on a rant on how spoiled I am and tells me there will be no other food. For context, I have always loved food and eating and was an extremely hungry growing teenager at this time.

I say fine. She then serves me the same portion of woked vegetable-mushroom mix for breakfast, lunch and dinner for three days straight and I refuse to eat each time. The portion had molded after the third day, and then she realised perhaps I'm not just fussy, I can't eat mushrooms.

Final score:

68points

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Mickysixxx 1 year ago

I love the shrooms but i know plenty of people who hate them. Seems you either love 'em or you hate 'em

34points

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#25

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids There's probably stranger punishments that I've received but the one I remember at the moment was being given an avocado to eat. Absolutely hated avocados as a kid just because of how they looked like. Never had eaten one before that. I remember just crying and sitting at the dinner table for an hour because I hated the taste.

Now I'm 21 years old and love avocados lmao

SpiralDragoon , Eddie Pipocas Report

Final score:

57points

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Deta Rossiter 1 year ago

I can relate... as a child could not stand the smell, now i can't get enough of them!

17points

#26

Pulling weeds. And when your done, ask the neighbors if they have weeds to pull.

Opalstar54 Report

Final score:

56points

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Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

My mom made me pick dandelions but the joke was on her because I enjoyed it. And I was being blamed for something my sister did but I didn’t mind. I was actually a quiet and respectful child who didn’t disobey.

20points

#27

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids The lawnmower broke so I had to cut the grass with a pair of scissors

its_average , Kampus Production Report

Final score:

55points

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Hotdogking 1 year ago

May I ask why did they make you do that? Did you break the lawnmower or are/were your parents just extremely controlling

32points

#28

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids Took away my orange juice.

I f*****g loved orange juice.

wally_wally , Paul Hanaoka Report

Final score:

54points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

Kel?

9points

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#29

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I'm left-handed and my mom mentioned when she was frustrated with me I'd get tasked with opening canned food. So if I just happened to be a little s**t *AND* there was canned food that needed to be opened at that same time, I'd be the one doing it. My left-handedness made this task difficult and frustrating, this equaling out her frustration I guess. I'm better at opening cans now BTW.

AudibleNod , Donna Spearman Report

Final score:

51points

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Jason 1 year ago

How many cans needed to be opened in your household? I think we open like 4 or 5a month

20points

#30

I couldn't wash my car for two weeks.

I am a car enthusiast and come from a family of them. I was in high school and I wanted to go to my friend's. My Dad told me I couldn't because it was St. Patrick's day and there would be more drunk drivers on the road. I went anyway. He goes to work the next day or day after and sees there is some tar and dirt on my car. He knew I had gone because he drives by my friend's house on his way to work. He told me I couldn't wash the car for two weeks. It drove me nuts. Then once the time was up, he made me wash the car even though it was going to rain in a few hours.

Vlaed Report

Final score:

41points

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Zephyr343 1 year ago

And then he made me drive the Volvo instead of the BMW to school

9points

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#31

Not me but saw a parent the other day shout at her child because she's run into the road to retrieve a toy that had fallen. Not a problem but to teach her 'that no toy was worth injuring yourself for' she proceeded to force her to throw the toy in the bin and say she was binning all her toys when she got home. Thought this was unnecessarily cruel!

amymac86 Report

Final score:

27points

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Tyke 1 year ago

I threatened to throw my son's "catty" (stuffed cat toy) in the bin when he was pretty little because he kept throwing it all over the street. His distraught face, and the look of panic... that was the first (and not the last) time I properly apologised to him. Parents make mistakes too, especially in the heat of the moment, but they should at least admit it

26points

#32

Step father tried spanking me... when I was 16. Apparently the confusion on my face made him angry enough to go in for a second spanking, which just made me even more confused.

Ung-Tik Report

Final score:

27points

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Jason 1 year ago

This sounds mildly creepy

30points

#33

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My parents would make me sit in the living room. I'd spend a lot of time in my room playing on the computer, so when I got in s**t they made me sit in the living room.

I also had a month long runescape ban and a month long ban from Halo Reach because my grades dropped.

They knew how to punish me.

Gods_Green_Crack , Spacejoy Report

Final score:

26points

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Pickle Panda 1 year ago

Noooooooooooo not the runescape.

5points

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#34

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids When I was 10 I got really mad at my mom and I stormed to my room and slammed the door shut. As I always do when I am mad, I took a nap. When I woke up, my door was completely gone. Didn’t get it back for another month.

QueenMoogle , Storiès Report

Final score:

25points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

I went another way. I put padding in the door frame. Means he doesn't get the satisfaction from slamming it so he doesn't do it now.

29points

#35

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids Growing up I was absurdly pasty and I am also ginger. I was at the barber and the barber suggested that the next time I get my hair cut that they bleach it as it would look really cool when my hair started to grow back out and you would have the red hair with the white tips. I agreed purely out of being super awkward and shy and felt uncomfortable saying no. So me and my mom get in the car and I tell her I don't want to do it. After a short argument she gives me an ultimatum. I either do it or I am grounded for same period of time that it would take for my hair to grow back out if I had bleached it.

Frekkes , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

25points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

I've let my kids choose their haircuts from an early age. If they look stupid, that's up to them. My mum allowed me to do the same. Forcing that cråp on a kid is bad juju.

30points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#36

My mom put a baby gate up right before you could walk in the kitchen. I needed to move some books in my room but I was too lazy to walk pass the kitchen. I placed a heavy pile of books right before the gate. My mom yelled at me for not putting them away so I had to hold the books high above my head for one hour. I couldn't drop my arms. It was damn heavy.

A neighbor walked in and saw me standing there

Him: Uh, hey. What's going on?

Me: *struggling* I should've put the books away.

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Final score:

25points

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Jazzywoo 1 year ago

Again, this is torture.

23points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

#37

At age 10 I broke one of our windows by hitting already broken toys with a baseball bat. I had to come with to Home Depot to get a new window and tell every one of the workers there what happened. They just sorta laughed as they called more employees over and shy little me was very uncomfortable. Also had to clean the entire basement.

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Final score:

25points

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zak 1 year ago

Ha, I broke so many garage windows when I was a kid. Soccer balls, arrows, etc. After maybe the 3rd time, I had to pay for each one. I think a lexan (clear plastic, which was less expensive and more durable than a glass one) window was like 10-15 bucks, which would come out of the money I earned from chores/etc. I still kept breaking windows, but at a MUCH slower rate than before lol

4points

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#38

When I was about 8 I had horrific night terrors every single night. When it was close to bedtime, I would start getting uncontrollably upset and not want to get into bed and I would cry and beg to stay up because I knew what would happen when I fell asleep.

My mom was gone one night and my dad was pissed that I kept crying so he put me in a small room we had in our garage for a couple hours until my mom was about to be home when he brought me back in. I don't remember if it was winter but I do remember that it was cold enough to see my breath.

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Final score:

23points

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Jason 1 year ago

Children have died from this

28points

theroamingbee , Point3D Commercial Imaging Ltd. Report

#39

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids When I was 12 or so I got caught watching porn on my phone. They took my phone, and since I didn’t see what I did wrong (I also had some attention issues so this is the result of acting out for attention as well but at the time my reasoning was that I didn’t do anything wrong) I took my phone back. They took my door, and everything else in my room too. I had a change of clothes for every day of the week, a mattress, sheets, and my chinchillas cage/things left in my room. I also had a book but I’m pretty sure I hid it in my underwear so I would have at least one book.

Oh also one time someone ate some chocolate that was supposed to be for s’mores and neither my brother or myself would fess up and say we did it. So he stood us in the living room and told us to hold our arms up so we were in like a ‘T’ position. He made us stand there for an hour and a half before my brother finally started crying and said he did it. To this day I’m not sure it was even him.

Edit: another story

Final score:

22points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

The t-position is torture. It's cruel and unusual punishment.

26points

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#40

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids I don't know if this is the "strangest," but my dad picked me up and threw me at a wall once. That was cool.

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Final score:

22points

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KJ 1 year ago

That isn't a punishment, that is child abuse.

61points

#41

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My mom found out that I told people I was an atheist at school (7th grade). She made me sit at the family computer for hours googling atheism until I admitted that it was a cult. Then I had to tell everyone at school I was Methodist the next day.

Cool, mom.

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Final score:

22points

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Dan Padgett 1 year ago

Forcing religion on kids should be a crime. If my kid comes to me and says "I'm Buddhist, Muslim, atheist, Taoist", it's their choice. Have fun with that.

34points

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#42

I opted to watch TV instead of do my homework one time. That weekend, I was forced to watch the Home and Garden network (HGTV), which was THE WORST as a kid.

Final score:

22points

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Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago

As an adult it still licks balls...

7points

#43

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids My parents used to make me give them my books when I got in trouble as a child because that was only thing that would bother me when taken away. I like to read

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Final score:

20points

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Angi 1 year ago

I'm glad my mom never thought of that

8points

#44

After being told to pick up the dog s**t from the backyard (we had two great Danes) for a couple of weeks, my dad made my brother and I pick all of it up with our bare hands. We got very acquainted with the many stages of dog s**t, from solid day old ones, to the white on the outside green on the inside ones, to a semi fresh diarrhea one.

We were lucky though. My mom talked him down from having us pick it up with our mouths.

He was a drill instructor in the Marines. He treated us worse than the recruits at many times.

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Final score:

19points

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Jason 1 year ago

What in the actual f. Great way to get worms, or diseases

24points

Maleficent_Mushroom , Annie Spratt Report

#45

30 Times “Strange” Parents Did Things That Were So Absurd, They Got Shamed Online By Their Kids When I was in elementary school my mom had to approve my outfits every morning. I would always try to wear short sleeved shirts in the dead of winter because I hated being restricted in long sleeves lol. One day I was running late and ran past my mom with a short sleeved shirt in February when it was freezing. As punishment, my mom made me wear a long sleeved shirt every single day until the end of the school year. I was sweating my A*S of when it came around to June.

Final score:

19points

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Hotdogking 1 year ago

My parents STILL do this to me (I’m 18) because they don’t want me going out in “rags” (aka, anything any clothes they don’t like the look of on a particular day). Their excuse is that if I go out dressed in “rags” I “look like no one loves me”. Unfortunately that is just the tip of the iceberg and I’m planning on getting out of that house as fast as possible

19points

#46

I used to make a lot of macaroni and cheese because it was the only thing I knew how to cook.

I made some and ate about half of it before I got full. I left some of it in the sink.

My dad got irritated at me for wasting it and I explained that I couldn’t finish it all and the leftovers suck.

The next day I walk into the kitchen and I go “dad where’s the Mac and cheese”

And he said “I took it away.”

TL;DR - He took away my Mac and Cheese.

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Final score:

12points

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Sabriel Plchů 1 year ago

Well that was deserved

8points

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

Most of these are straight up abuse. Sad.

23points

Marcellium 1 year ago

Here's mine: Came out as gay at like 12. Not allowed to leave the house, use a phone or computer for the whole summer. All phone calls were monitored. A summer with no friends or entertainment. They're much more accepting now but that sucked. Being alone still makes me panic.

14points

Thor Haugen 1 year ago

I remember the one and only time I threw a temper tantrum Mom picked me up and threw me out of the house into a snow bank. I just remember being so shocked. No real harm was done and I never tried that again. 🤣

12points

L 1 year ago

My parents would pull over and start making out when my siblings and I would argue in the car. Only took a couple of times before all they would have to do is lean toward each other if an argument was brewing. They were absolutely brilliant.

7points

Auntriarch 1 year ago

Legend!

1point

Raye West 1 year ago

These mostly made me mad. Some people should not be parents and some kids need to learn to listen

7points

Biofish23 1 year ago

Parents coming up with odd or creative ways to teach a lesson shouldn't be lumped in with horrific abuse. This list is a disturbing Rollercoaster.

6points

Rocco MZ 1 year ago

You know how Bart has to write the same thing over and over on the board in the opening of The Simpsons? Like "I will not throw rocks." My dad used to make us do that. Once I had to write something 500 times. So I did it in columns. I did 500 I's, the 500 "will not" and so on. When he found out I did it in columns he made me do it again. My mother once made me sit at the table because I wouldn't eat peas. I sat there until bed time. At breakfast, it was a Saturday, she put the peas in front of me. I still wouldn't eat them. Same with lunch and dinner on Saturday. Sunday morning she made pancakes, bacon and eggs and put the peas in front of me. I still would eat them. This went on until Monday. I was so looking forward to school lunch as nasty as it usually was. I didn't make it to lunch. I passed out during recess and when I work up in the nurse's office my mom was there. The nurse asked me if I had any idea what happened and I said, "My mom hasn't let me eat since Friday." The nurse

6points

Rocco MZ 1 year ago

looked at me funny asked why. I said, "Because I wouldn't eat my peas." The nurse said, "Then I guess you have learned your lesson." She turned to my mom and said, "You can take him home, and I bet he'll eat those peas now. Just make him some fresh ones. We don't want to add food poisoning to this." We went home and I was more than happy to eat those peas. To this day, peas are my favorite. And before you scream child abuse, it was 1977.

4points

Mani Lacao 1 year ago

My grandma would chase us throwing babouches at us at the same time. So we had to run in circles around the table while avoiding the flying Moroccan hazard, while trying not to fall because we were laughing our a$$ off. Good times

6points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

so a shoe/slipper thing?

2points

Detective Miller's Hat 1 year ago

Starting at age 12, my mother would ground me for no reason nearly every weekend, so she could leave me to watch my sister while she went out drinking and partying with her friends.

5points

sunshineonmars 1 year ago

My parents would punish me and not tell me, as in taking away stuff without saying it, dumping my trash on my bed if i hadn't sorted it right, etc. Real fun.

4points

B.Nelson 1 year ago

My parents grounded me because of grades. Was given the choice between cleaning me natural disaster looking room or read a book longer than 200 pages. I hated reading back then. Took me 3 weeks to read that book. Now I love reading. My room still borders on chaos though.

4points

Undercover 1 year ago

I'm still so fuckked up by my childhood that I am unable to distinguish what's normal and what is emotional abuse or just really strange PS: I really don't want pitty, it just reminds me of my weird, painful past. This makes me feel so grateful that I don't have to rise children on my own 🙏

2points

Shelley Seguin 1 year ago

As parents we tended to take the “natural consequences” route with our kids. Three-year-old son didn’t want to wear a coat (Canada in January!). I didn’t want to fight, so I said fine, threw the coat into the passenger seat and waited for him to realize how cold it is without a coat. Spent the afternoon running a million errands - in and out of stores, I was COLD. Car barely had time to warm up in between stops. He NEVER asked for the bloody coat! I must have looked like the worst mom on the planet! LOL And he never got sick either - thankfully.

2points

Lyyyy 1 year ago

One of my kids is like this, he’s four and calls all the bluffs so I really have no option other than to go through with it. ”Do you want dessert” *no reaction* *repeat 5 times* ”Okay, I’ll gladly eat yours too” *no reaction* *cue chaos as I take the first bite*

1point

Green Tree 1 year ago

My sister was about 14 and refused to clean her room so the punishment was she would have to sleep in our unfinished basement. My other siblings and I decided to stage a child strike and we all gathered up pillows and blankets to join her. My Union dad couldn’t help but laugh at his rights-orientated kids who obviously were a chip off the old block. Punishment ended

1point

Fry Me A Liver 1 year ago (edited)

I haven't thought about this in years but when I was an adolescent, I found a car with the keys in it one night and went joyriding. I got caught and the car's owner turned out to be a neighborhood barber. Guess where my mom took me for ny next haircut? That barber and his buddies gave me sh*t from the time I walked through the door to the time I left. Humiliating as hell. Didn't work, but hell of a good try, mom!

1point

Megan Contreras 3 months ago

I snuck out alot as a teen to go drink and dumb stuff. I would always get up and take care of what I needed to the next day. One time I snuck out to get coffee, COFFEE, with a guy I wad seeing. I got caught that time. We had property at the time and my dad was ripping up a side yard to plant grass. My punishment was to pick every little and big rock out of that 1/2 acre lot. I was grounded for as long as it took me. Took me a week, during the summer when I had nothing but time to pick rocks. I stopped sneaking out, however I would just say I'm staying at a friend's house and not come home until the next day.

0points

Fxnglhl 1 year ago

my mom threatened to give my (at the time 10 yo) sister up for adoption bcs she left trash on her desk

0points

Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago

If my dad found out I was drawing at school after finishing my work he would literally destroy all of my belongings until I told him why I was drawing. And ONLY if he accepted the answer. I lost more than half my DVD and CD collection because of that.

0points

Anton Swanepoel 1 year ago

My older sister had two kids (later three) I was driving the two eldest to a sightseeing location they had wanted to visit, but they wouldn't stop fighting. I threatened to turn around and take them back home if they didn't calm down. Got ignored. Turned around and took them back home. They never fought in the car after that.

0points

Elizabeth Faught 1 year ago

When I was a kid my mom would make me do push-ups if I did anything wrong. It would range anywhere from 30-200 depending on what I did.

0points

John Dilligaf 1 year ago

Mom and Dad were divorced. Mom had custody. Whenever I was with Dad and I did something wrong and he decided I needed punishment it was always "go to your room, no TV tonight". Joke's on Dad, I didn't (and still don't ) like TV very much. Mom is a reader and that rubbed off on me. So I'd happily sit in my room reading whatever while "being punished".

0points

majandess 1 year ago

My son came back from a trip with his aunt and uncle, and started eating every piece of junk food that he could get his hands on. He'd try to hide the wrappers and packaging by shoving them in between furniture and the walls, or behind the fridge. When I asked him why, he told me that Aunt and Uncle had called him a junk food monster, and that's what he was. So, I told him if he was actually a junk food monster, he wasn't allowed to eat anything healthy; he could only eat junk food. He lasted an hour and a half because he wanted a blueberry smoothie. [Incidentally, that's when taking out the trashes also became his official job.]

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Ches Yamada 1 year ago

Most of these are straight up abuse. Sad.

23points

Marcellium 1 year ago

14points

Thor Haugen 1 year ago

12points

L 1 year ago

7points

Auntriarch 1 year ago

Legend!

1point

Raye West 1 year ago

These mostly made me mad. Some people should not be parents and some kids need to learn to listen

7points

Biofish23 1 year ago

Parents coming up with odd or creative ways to teach a lesson shouldn't be lumped in with horrific abuse. This list is a disturbing Rollercoaster.

6points

Rocco MZ 1 year ago

6points

Rocco MZ 1 year ago

4points

Mani Lacao 1 year ago

6points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

so a shoe/slipper thing?

2points

Detective Miller's Hat 1 year ago

Starting at age 12, my mother would ground me for no reason nearly every weekend, so she could leave me to watch my sister while she went out drinking and partying with her friends.

5points

sunshineonmars 1 year ago

My parents would punish me and not tell me, as in taking away stuff without saying it, dumping my trash on my bed if i hadn't sorted it right, etc. Real fun.

4points

B.Nelson 1 year ago

4points

Undercover 1 year ago

2points

Shelley Seguin 1 year ago

2points

Lyyyy 1 year ago

1point