Grown-Up Kids Share The Most Embarrassing Things Their Parents Ever Did In Front Of Them (30 Tweets)
For parents of misbehaving kids (which, let's face it, is all parents), embarrassment is one of the most effective ways of turning the tables. Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of a child who might've gotten a little too big for their britches more than being shown up in front of their mates.
Kids get to a stage, usually around their early teens, when they just find their parents to be eye-rollingly cringeworthy. They want to strike out in the world and find their own identities - and consequently begin to rebel a little against the 'authority figures' that are their parents. It can be a difficult period for both child and parent, but with some understanding and good humor, it can be easily negotiated.
This list, inspired by a Nick Harvey tweet, is a classic of the genre: Mortified children recounting the horror of their most embarrassing parent-related moments. Sure, some of these parents put their kids through a public shaming entirely by accident; but there are also plenty of vengeful moms and dads who knew exactly what they were doing!
Scroll down below to check out the list for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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I almost got busted smoking coz stupid young me hid an ashtray on my window sill. Well der you can see what’s on the sill from the outside. I was a bloody idiot. I am still a bit of a ditz.
when I was 32 my mom called my dentist's office and asked the front desk to make sure I didn't walk home after dark.
My mom came home once, pulled me into her room and slammed the door. "I found out something about you today that was worse than finding out your sister (16) is pregnant", pause, "you smoke". I had taken said sister to the doctor and smoked in the waiting room, the nurse ratted me out to mom. Please note, mom smoked two packs a day, and dad smoked 3.
5 packs a day? Wow, your parents spent a fortune in cigarettes.
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Probably tobacco, that is the worst thing to smoke.
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I got a long lecture from mom about smoking cos my room smelled like smoke, It was mosquito repellent incense I used to burn in my room, also once got lectured about how my breath smells like scented tobacco, it was just mouth freshner I took from dinner at a restaurant, another time when my parents suggested not to travel to a neigboring city alone cos I shouldn't, I had just returned from abroad living two years as international student
Years ago I asked my boss "My boyfriend is coming to visit for my birthday, can I have it off?" He said "That isn't a question you should ask a work colleague." It took me a couple of seconds but my face spontaneously combusted and I ran out of the laboratory with his laughter echoing down the hallway. Fiend.
Not missing a beat, he responded, "I'm just glad you're not buying an aubergine" (aubergine = eggplant)
Had a similar experience once in Germany: mum asks for a roasted chicken at a stall, and the guy replies asking 'Ein gansche?', which means a complete chicken, not half of it. My mum, being Flemish understood 'A goose?' ('een ganse?') and replies 'No, no, a chicken!'
I hate parents like that. Why can't you just relax & let your kids enjoy playing a game?
If a man would have done it to her, she probably would have filed a complaint...
rule number one: if you see photos, videos, or crafts being pulled out.. RUN
My Mum tried to measure me for a bra in M&S in front of other staff and shoppers !!!
Good Grief! The girl was 19 - an adult. Not an appropriate way to treat an adult daughter.
i find pain funny.. but this isnt embarrassing just a little sad
Haha, I was outside having a ciggie (when I smoked) at a shopping centre when a teenager approached me and asked me for a smoke. and I asked them for ID, they said they left it at home but I refused to give them one.
That's embarrassing for the s@#t parents...way to NOT back your kid!
What time does the Subway stop running? And do they not have taxis in London?
Aw, I went to a Radio One Roadshow in Brighton. Shame they stopped doing them.
My mother had surgery on her hemorrhoids when I was 16. She had a DR that never smiled or laughed. She decided it was her mission in life to make him laugh. She made me draw a happy face on her a*s cheek with a sharpie before surgery. When my mom was in recovery the nurse came in and said she never saw the DR laugh so hard in all the years she's been working with him.
I saved a 'ripe' sticker from an avocado and wore it to the delivery room.
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The most embarrassing thing involved my Mother-in-law. We were staying over the in-laws house and we were going to sleep in the caravan. I started getting ready for bed when my son started crying and also sounded like he was dry retching so I got up and started going through the cupboards to find a bowl or bucket. My hubby heard him crying so came to check what’s up then went to ask his mum where a bucket was. I was sitting on the chair cuddling my son, I was stark naked except for a pair of knickers and even though my hubby told her I wasn’t dressed she still came in, gasped and said “OH.MY.GOD (real name) you are beautiful, you are a Windsor beauty (whatever the hell that is)” and she started rubbing my arm. It was sooooo awkward and embarrassing. We have never spoken of it and I don’t know if she remembers coz she was so very drunk.
(1/2)This happened to my father twice. First time, my brother and I were 18 and 13 and my dad wanted book us something fun so he got us tickets to the "Dances of Latin America" at the Rio in Vegas. My brother thought it was 'lame' so he skipped out and it was just my mom, dad, and I. At the end of the show all these topless showgirls came out for a Carnivale number to which my mom ribbed me with her elbow and said "I bet your brother regrets not coming."
When I was 7 my family moved to San Diego from Denmark. As kids do I quickly adjusted and learnt the language flawlessly. My mother however always spoke broken English with a thick Danish accent. One day before the Christmas holidays in the 7th grade, while waiting outside school for my mom to pick me up, I stood next to a popular boy named Eric Farhood whom I had an epic, all consuming crush on. He was with a group of his friends and probably had no idea whatsoever who I was. Chance had it that the evening before, I had (turns out very unwisely), spilled my guts to my mom confessing my undying love for Eric and even pointed him out to her on a school photo. As my mother pulls up to the school the first thing she spots is - naturally - Eric Farhood. The following all plays out in slow motion for me as she gets out of the car with a huge smile on her face and shouts: MEDRRYS CHRISTMASSY, ERIC FARTHOOD.
This one has to do with a parent embarrassing a child. My sister went on a school trip. She forgot her underwear. My mother noticed. She had her husband drive to the school. This is huge for my mother to ask. She found the bus. She had the underwear in her hand waving it around. * you forgot your underwear. I have it. My sister (wearing dress) had to get off the bus to get it. I was outside with my and her friends. I had to tell them that it was a joke.
(2/2)The second time my father wanted us to see a play in London's West End. He was a big fan of Madame Butterfly and thought M. Butterfly was a modern take on the classic. The story is about a British sailor falling in love with a Japanese woman. In the modern version (takes place around WWII), it's not a woman but a drag queen who is spying for the government. As not to blow her cover, her handler tells him that he needs to have sex with the sailor. There is a line that alludes to a**l sex and once my dad heard that our family was never yanked out of a movie theater so fast. We never spoke of it again.
Driving along and saw my daughter hanging around with her way too cool friends on a street corner and thought it a too good opportunity to miss so I came alongside to say "Hi" and "what about a smooch for your old dad?" Needless to say she sank into the sidewalk with a firey red face.
In second grade, bout 6 years old, I needed to use the restroom but my teacher would not let me go because we were watching some movie about dinosaurs *insert eye roll* I ended up peeing myself, had to call home to Dad (mom was working) to bring me clean undies and pants. He shows up with one of my brothers clothes........ He claimed I sounded like my brother on the phone and asked if I would still wear it, mind you my brothers were 2 and 3 years younger than me... I waited in the office with my pee soaked pants for another hour or so before he showed up with the right ones.
My dad was driving my brother and I to high school. He ran a light near the school, and an officer turned on the siren. Though there were plenty of side streets or places to pull over before the school, my father proceeds to drive into the school drop off lane, tailed by the siren-blaring cop. I was mortified.
I have MANY embarrassing moments, so it's hard to pick just one. But, here goes. My dad was picking me up from a friends' house. Everyone else had left, and my friend and I were the only ones remaining. We heard the doorbell ring, so my friend, her mom, and me went to the door to answer it. I was extremely warm as my friends and I had been playing games and dancing around. It was about thirty degrees that night, and I was in short sleeves and shorts because we had had a dodgeball event that night. I put my shoes on, and y dad comes in and says loudly, "DONT YOU NEED YOUR JACKET AND SWEATPANTS?" I reluctantly put my sweat pants on over my shorts and ht then says, "CAN'T TELL MOM YOU LEFT WITHOUT PANTS ON!!" There was awkward silence after. My friends' mom did kind of an awkward laugh, and was like "Well thanks for coming!"
Junior prom I brought my well-endowed date over for pictures at my Dad and step-mother's place before going to the dance. We had extended family visiting. In front of everyone my father asked my date if she had purposely picked a strapless dress so I would have an easier time getting my hands down in there to check things out.
And then there was the time my Dad and stepmother came to grad school graduation. I look a lot like my father and my boyfriend commented that we could almost be twins. My dad said, "So, does my son have a foot long c**k too?" Without missing a beat my boyfriend retorted, "Oh, yours is that small?"
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Even though both times my dad embarrassed me were private I was still mortified. Once, when I was about 11 years old and ran up to tell my mother something, my dad looked at her and asked, "Don't you think it's about time to get her a little bra? The second time was on the first day of my first period ever. It didn't help any that at dinner my dad patted my hand and said, "Your mother told me about your little problem."
Not my parents, but a friend of my mothers. I was asked to a school dance by a boy I really, really liked. When the dance was over, he escorted me to the parking lot of the school. We stood for a moment..and just as he leaned in to kiss me (never quite able to make contact), I could hear my mom's friend screaming in a shrill voice "Carol! We're over here!!" The kiss never happened and my face was unbearably red. My mother apologized profusely. That young man died that summer in a roll over car accident. I never did get that kiss. To this day, I can't hear that woman's name without getting angry and heartbroken.
I'm remarkably pleased to say I was rarely embarrassed by my parents. My sister, my other relatives, yes. My parents, not so much. That would have required my dad being around more, and we didn't want that!
My dad and I were walking through Walmart and his pants were slightly down so I said “hey dad, cracks illegal” so instead of pulling his pants he yelled out in the middle of the store, “CRACK FOR SALE”
I note that none of these parents did anything wrong, actually. At most they had a weird sense of humor, or not carng about social conventions. Nothing here shows them abusing or otherwise harming their kids.
Next post: The Most Embarrasing Things My Kid Did In Front Of Our Frinds/Strangers And Brought Shame To The Whole Family.
My mother had surgery on her hemorrhoids when I was 16. She had a DR that never smiled or laughed. She decided it was her mission in life to make him laugh. She made me draw a happy face on her a*s cheek with a sharpie before surgery. When my mom was in recovery the nurse came in and said she never saw the DR laugh so hard in all the years she's been working with him.
I saved a 'ripe' sticker from an avocado and wore it to the delivery room.
Load More Replies... The most embarrassing thing involved my Mother-in-law. We were staying over the in-laws house and we were going to sleep in the caravan. I started getting ready for bed when my son started crying and also sounded like he was dry retching so I got up and started going through the cupboards to find a bowl or bucket. My hubby heard him crying so came to check what’s up then went to ask his mum where a bucket was. I was sitting on the chair cuddling my son, I was stark naked except for a pair of knickers and even though my hubby told her I wasn’t dressed she still came in, gasped and said “OH.MY.GOD (real name) you are beautiful, you are a Windsor beauty (whatever the hell that is)” and she started rubbing my arm. It was sooooo awkward and embarrassing. We have never spoken of it and I don’t know if she remembers coz she was so very drunk.
(1/2)This happened to my father twice. First time, my brother and I were 18 and 13 and my dad wanted book us something fun so he got us tickets to the "Dances of Latin America" at the Rio in Vegas. My brother thought it was 'lame' so he skipped out and it was just my mom, dad, and I. At the end of the show all these topless showgirls came out for a Carnivale number to which my mom ribbed me with her elbow and said "I bet your brother regrets not coming."
When I was 7 my family moved to San Diego from Denmark. As kids do I quickly adjusted and learnt the language flawlessly. My mother however always spoke broken English with a thick Danish accent. One day before the Christmas holidays in the 7th grade, while waiting outside school for my mom to pick me up, I stood next to a popular boy named Eric Farhood whom I had an epic, all consuming crush on. He was with a group of his friends and probably had no idea whatsoever who I was. Chance had it that the evening before, I had (turns out very unwisely), spilled my guts to my mom confessing my undying love for Eric and even pointed him out to her on a school photo. As my mother pulls up to the school the first thing she spots is - naturally - Eric Farhood. The following all plays out in slow motion for me as she gets out of the car with a huge smile on her face and shouts: MEDRRYS CHRISTMASSY, ERIC FARTHOOD.
This one has to do with a parent embarrassing a child. My sister went on a school trip. She forgot her underwear. My mother noticed. She had her husband drive to the school. This is huge for my mother to ask. She found the bus. She had the underwear in her hand waving it around. * you forgot your underwear. I have it. My sister (wearing dress) had to get off the bus to get it. I was outside with my and her friends. I had to tell them that it was a joke.
(2/2)The second time my father wanted us to see a play in London's West End. He was a big fan of Madame Butterfly and thought M. Butterfly was a modern take on the classic. The story is about a British sailor falling in love with a Japanese woman. In the modern version (takes place around WWII), it's not a woman but a drag queen who is spying for the government. As not to blow her cover, her handler tells him that he needs to have sex with the sailor. There is a line that alludes to a**l sex and once my dad heard that our family was never yanked out of a movie theater so fast. We never spoke of it again.
Driving along and saw my daughter hanging around with her way too cool friends on a street corner and thought it a too good opportunity to miss so I came alongside to say "Hi" and "what about a smooch for your old dad?" Needless to say she sank into the sidewalk with a firey red face.
In second grade, bout 6 years old, I needed to use the restroom but my teacher would not let me go because we were watching some movie about dinosaurs *insert eye roll* I ended up peeing myself, had to call home to Dad (mom was working) to bring me clean undies and pants. He shows up with one of my brothers clothes........ He claimed I sounded like my brother on the phone and asked if I would still wear it, mind you my brothers were 2 and 3 years younger than me... I waited in the office with my pee soaked pants for another hour or so before he showed up with the right ones.
My dad was driving my brother and I to high school. He ran a light near the school, and an officer turned on the siren. Though there were plenty of side streets or places to pull over before the school, my father proceeds to drive into the school drop off lane, tailed by the siren-blaring cop. I was mortified.
I have MANY embarrassing moments, so it's hard to pick just one. But, here goes. My dad was picking me up from a friends' house. Everyone else had left, and my friend and I were the only ones remaining. We heard the doorbell ring, so my friend, her mom, and me went to the door to answer it. I was extremely warm as my friends and I had been playing games and dancing around. It was about thirty degrees that night, and I was in short sleeves and shorts because we had had a dodgeball event that night. I put my shoes on, and y dad comes in and says loudly, "DONT YOU NEED YOUR JACKET AND SWEATPANTS?" I reluctantly put my sweat pants on over my shorts and ht then says, "CAN'T TELL MOM YOU LEFT WITHOUT PANTS ON!!" There was awkward silence after. My friends' mom did kind of an awkward laugh, and was like "Well thanks for coming!"
Junior prom I brought my well-endowed date over for pictures at my Dad and step-mother's place before going to the dance. We had extended family visiting. In front of everyone my father asked my date if she had purposely picked a strapless dress so I would have an easier time getting my hands down in there to check things out.
And then there was the time my Dad and stepmother came to grad school graduation. I look a lot like my father and my boyfriend commented that we could almost be twins. My dad said, "So, does my son have a foot long c**k too?" Without missing a beat my boyfriend retorted, "Oh, yours is that small?"
Load More Replies... Even though both times my dad embarrassed me were private I was still mortified. Once, when I was about 11 years old and ran up to tell my mother something, my dad looked at her and asked, "Don't you think it's about time to get her a little bra? The second time was on the first day of my first period ever. It didn't help any that at dinner my dad patted my hand and said, "Your mother told me about your little problem."
Not my parents, but a friend of my mothers. I was asked to a school dance by a boy I really, really liked. When the dance was over, he escorted me to the parking lot of the school. We stood for a moment..and just as he leaned in to kiss me (never quite able to make contact), I could hear my mom's friend screaming in a shrill voice "Carol! We're over here!!" The kiss never happened and my face was unbearably red. My mother apologized profusely. That young man died that summer in a roll over car accident. I never did get that kiss. To this day, I can't hear that woman's name without getting angry and heartbroken.
I'm remarkably pleased to say I was rarely embarrassed by my parents. My sister, my other relatives, yes. My parents, not so much. That would have required my dad being around more, and we didn't want that!
My dad and I were walking through Walmart and his pants were slightly down so I said “hey dad, cracks illegal” so instead of pulling his pants he yelled out in the middle of the store, “CRACK FOR SALE”
I note that none of these parents did anything wrong, actually. At most they had a weird sense of humor, or not carng about social conventions. Nothing here shows them abusing or otherwise harming their kids.
Next post: The Most Embarrasing Things My Kid Did In Front Of Our Frinds/Strangers And Brought Shame To The Whole Family.
