In a moment of frustration or confusion, every mom and dad has said and done things that they later regretted. But that doesn’t make them bad. There’s a difference between making a mistake and negligence. And the subreddit r/BadParents is trying to find this.
“From naughty moms to drunk-in-public dads, if they are being idiots or crazy irresponsible, we want to see it,” the online community writes on its ‘About’ page, inviting people to share examples of how not to raise kids.
#1 Stupidity At Its Best

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#2 Omg

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#3 What A Horrible Parent

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#4 Not Following Medical Instructions

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#5 Raising Your Child Isn’t Something They Have To Earn

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#6 The System Doesn’t Help The Child

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#7 How Many?

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#8 Found This On Gem On Instagram

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#9 The Baby Is In There

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#10 When Your Son Is Smarter Than You Are

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#11 This Is Awful

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#12 Quora Is Filled With S***ty Parents… This Is Just One Out Of Thousands

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#13 I Wonder Why

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#14 Don’t Punish The Dog For Your Terrible Parenting

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#15 Translation: “She Broke My Phone So I Made Her Eat A Hot Pepper”

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#16 Denying Daughter Therapy Because Of Grades. Like As If Mental Health Didn’t Affect Grades In The First Place?

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#17 “I Hate Who My Child Is, How Can I Change It To Be Something I Like”

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#18 Using Your Child’s Educational Growth For Views

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#19 Just… Wow

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#20 Yeah And I’ll Help Out By Posting This On Reddit

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#21 She Needs To Let Go

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#22 Tf

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#23 May This Person Not Have A Daughter Ever

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#24 Not Sure If It Fits Here, But Here’s A Mini Rant About My Mother Not Letting Me Choose How I Want My Hair

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#25 Took Me 27 Years To Finally Do It, And I Get This In Return As A Reply

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#26 When Your Dad(50) Gets His 21yo GF Pregnant And Then She Leaves Him. He Can’t Take The Rejection(And The Fact That She Won’t Get Back With Him) So Much So That He Would Rather Not Have Anything To Do With The Kid And Ropes You Into It

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#27 Wow

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#28 So Now The Animal Must Suffer Bc It Doesn’t “Like Your Daughter The Split Second It Meets Her”??

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#29 Wtf How Are You Gonna Let Your Daughter Do This

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#30 People Like This Just Shouldn’t Leave Their House

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#31 This Mom

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#32 The Next Brad Mondo Right Here

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#33 Why Would You Give Ghost Pepper Sauce To 4 Year Olds?!

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#34 Question And Answer Found On Quora

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#35 What The Hell

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#36 I Found This On Instagram

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#37 For Stealing Food

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#38 Free Trampoline… Sure We Have Room For It

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#39 Maternal Instinct: -100

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#40 Mom Cuts Daughter’s Hair Because Dad Got It Done Without ‘Permission’…”I Took My Boys To Get Their Hair Cut And Got My Bby Girl’s Hair Done. Look What Her Momma Did Just Because I Got My Bby Hair Did”

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#41 Why? Just…why?

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#42 Just Found This

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#43 The Elders “Don’t Climb Our Rock” Mother “Lets Climb It Anyway”

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#44 “Bubbles” Loses Child To Foster Care Then Posts This Shortly After. Never Getting Child Back According To Fam Svcs

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#45 This Is What My Dad Says To Me After Being Absolutely Miserable For The Past Week And Still Awaiting My Covid-19 Test Results

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#46 Baby Proofing? Nah… Darwin Award Maybe?

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#47 I Think This Meets The Criteria Of A Bad Parent?

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#48 Hmm, Yes, Checks Out

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#49 This Just Pissed Me Off

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#50 Why Though?

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