Kids Are Creating Memes About Their Insane Parents And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones

Damn

Cannot relate. Was bullied at school all day, went home in tears most days only to beaten to a pulp at home. Fun childhood

Schools in the UK have actually remained open for the kids of essential workers (like medical staff, super market staff etc) and for kids who are classed as vulnerable. They're also putting together food packages or food vouchers for kids who would normally get free school meals to make sure they don't go hungry.

School was still rough but at least it was better. I want to go back to school.

That's so true. If it happened when I was young I would ended up really insane

Thank you!

Say a little louder so they can hear you in the back!

Exactly. You didn’t turn out fine, unless you define “turning out fine” as turning out a sick twisted sadist.

Nobody said to make everything happy all the time. But it's also not ok to make their life artificially difficult and extremely scary or painful. Giving them challenges can be done in a safe, healthy way without creating extra suffering for them for the purpose of suffering. Kids learn how real life and loving relationships work, from challenges they can work through with guidance or encouragement, and positive and negative logical consequences for productive and destructive behaviors, + for +, - for -. Making things hard all the time purposely or abusing them will just teach them people are not to be trusted, and that life is horrible and scary. You can create anxiety disorders that way. If anyone thinks I'm making this up, they need to read up on child psychology and studies of child development. Especially the researchers Vygotsky, Bowlby, Erikson, and Piaget. You can google them and find great stuff.

my mother isn’t exactly abusive. she doesn’t hit me or physically harm me or anything. but because of some of her methods of parenting, i feel as though i am under constant criticism and scrutiny, i feel like i have to be perfect all the time, i apologize for everything, and i don’t think i'll ever be good enough. a couple times she has physically hurt me, she threw my backpack at my legs one time, and proceeded to shove me down the stairs. the way she yells and gets angry, she says she parents how she was parented. she has also said that some of it isn’t right, but she doesn’t know what else to do. that’s the cycle of abuse, in some cases. the child grows up with some kind of abuse, and in turn treats their children the same way because they “turned out fine” and/or “don’t know how else to parent their children” and/or want people to suffer like they did. i don’t really know how to end this sooo

No kidding! You just described my childhood with my mother....

"Strict" with my mother meant talking about good behavior or bad behavior. With one sitter it meant them literally breaking a wooden spoon from hitting me.

My parents aren't even strict, just very very very overbearing, and this is still true. May I add: How to very discreetly listen through walls

How to suppress feelings of fear and pain and appear like you can suck it all up like a sponge, how to read people's minds and try to figure out what mood they are in and make it all your fault and many other useful skills. But then again, that goes far beyond "strict" ...

Yup. Know this from experience. I had a 'friend' who used to constantly put me down for being afraid of authority at school...but I'd learned to be terrified of authority (my father) for a young age, had no idea how else to act

Just wanted to clarify it's a grown woman twitting it.

Luckily for me, my mother the devout Catholic says this pandemic is the result of a VIRUS...

Being Catholic has nothing to do with this. Your mother is a guilt-tripping, Control Freak. Rather nuts I'd say.

They said something similar about AIDS and homosexuality. And AIDS and the sexual revolution. And AIDS and __________ (choose any unrelated reason you can think of).

I don't think the mother was actually saying it was the daughter/sons fault. The virus, or anything else for that matter, is never a punishment from God. But often, we all can grow and become better during tough, trying times...And that IS a lesson from God...which is what I feel the mother was saying. Just a bad choice of words

I've seen kids do this. I'm sorry you have to live with that!

Me with my husband who sometimes lacks a filter.

Yep and fathers have done that too

Surprisingly, it’s most often my dad. My mom is pretty chill

I have never related more

Soooo true! I've written it on BP before - some parents/families are terribly toxic people and the best thing that you can do is to cut ties with them and live your life without them.

I'm lucky that most of my family is awesome. But that is also because my grandparents saved her nieces and nephews from her abusive brother in law. Also, my family album growing up included *many* wonderful folks who I shared no blood relation with.

We’ve been conditioned to think that we are bound and loyal to our families no matter what. The guilt is what gets most of us.

it's can be look funny but it's really deep deep sad

Same