How interestingly things are unfolding – just yesterday I wrote about a teen whose mother considers the very idea of knocking when entering his room to be completely ridiculous and outrageous, and today I’m writing about a selection of stories about so-called “helicopter parents.”
Bored Panda has already talked about this contemporary phenomenon more than once or twice, given examples, and compiled collections of strange and rather toxic stories about how parents interfered in the lives of their fully grown-up children. So here is another similar selection for you!
#1 Yeah Let’s Control The Hell Out Of Our Kids So They Don’t Become Liberals. Parenting Done Right.
Yeah let’s control the hell out of our kids so they don’t become liberals. Parenting done right.
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#2
Mother is controlling, and uses her anxiety to treat me like she’s my prison warden, and yet I still worry I’m doing something wrong.
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#3
I am 22 years old, living on my own with my husband, and my dad still trys to control what I do.
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#4
I lost an amazing friend because her mom is a homophobic karen who wants to control way to much of her life. Her mom thinks of me as being a bad influence just because I’m openly bi and acts like her being a lesbo is a bad thing that I caused. I’m honestly really tired of her mom.
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#5
I’m almost 22 and my mom is watching my every move from another country. I’m not allowed out past 10 pm and every time I’m going to be late to my apartment even by a few minutes i need to let her know.
She was asking if I went out at night and threatened to stop paying for [stuff]. I use a location faker to get around it (spent the night at a guy’s place lol) but it can cause location to be a little glitchy but it works well enough, one time I went on a 3 day trip to another state without her noticing.
Oh yeah she has a tracker on my car too, she is actually insane. I’m an international student and [stuff] is expensive so she pays for a lot of [it] but in exchange I have to follow her insane rules (location tracker on at all times, no going to guys’ houses, no guys allowed at my apartment, not allowed out past 10 and if I do I need to let her know every time, etc.) Which I mean I get it it’s her money but those are insane rules. Why even let me go study in another country if you’re going to be this bitchy about it?
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#6
Stepmom trying to control what I do with my internet usage at my biomoms house
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#7
I’m 25F and I moved out three years ago from my mom’s house because she is controlling and mean. I’m going to visit a city about an hour away from my home city. My mom wanted to come over to my apartment but she’s really judgmental and I know she’d criticize everything. Nothing is clean enough for her or organized well or decorated well because it’s not her way of doing things. I told her she couldn’t come over but she kept insisting so instead we made plans to meet in the morning before work to see each other before my trip at the transit station. I woke up early to get ready and meet her but she disowned me. Even when she gets her way and gets to see me, it’s not good enough if it’s not exactly what she demands. She expects me to come over every weekend and sleep over. She’s been nagging me for 3 years to move back home and doesn’t listen when I say no.
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#8
I was recently kicked out of my house by my parents who controlled my bank account and they refuse to give me my money now that I’m in my own.
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#9
I finally moved out of my controlling and manipulative parents house. I’m 20, and they’ve been harassing my friends trying to find me, and I had to tell the police my situation so they wouldn’t file me as missing.
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#10
Controlling mom thinks I shouldn’t have “boys” in my room. My (21f) entire life I’ve mostly had male friends, and nothing’s ever been said until now.
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#11
Parent With Serious Control Issues. I Didn’t Do Anything Wrong And I Get This Message Out Of The Blue.
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#12
Mother threatens to kick me out of college for not sharing location
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#13
My mom’s response to me asking her for privacy
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#14
I’m 22 F living on my own and my parents still want to have control on what I buy. It is not making me any more frugal when she yells at me for spending too much.
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#15
My narcissist mother trying to control me yet again
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#16
He’s my dad he was VERY abusive when I was living with him and I worry he’s abusive to my siblings that still live with him also idk if I used the right flair
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#17
Very long history with my parents being extremely controlling. This is a very mild recent taste.
Might not be considered insane compared to what they have done in the past but just wanted to share. FYI, I called her after I finished studying and it was not important lol
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#18
My friends mom tweeted this. Control freak alert is going off the charts!
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#19
Abusive mother tries to financially control me
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#20
I am 20 years old, my mom tries to set a curfew of 9:30 pm for me. I am trying to push it but she goes crazy like this. Dad is barely any help, even tho he isn’t the one who is controlling like my mother. They always treat me like a kid when I do very very well for myself.
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#21
The conversation started by him recommending a show on Netflix talking about correctional boarding schools like the one I had been sent to so that I “would know you’re not alone” which helped him understand “….i think”
He gave me the stun gun, and Maria is my former abusive stepmother. My dad is 49 and I am 19. Yeah…
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#22
My(19f) mom(52f) keeps asking me for my location
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#23
So im 16 and my phone was smashed by my dad bc he was mad and I got a new one so I texted him and he is controlling and demands to know every thing about stuff I know when I drive to mc donalds he questions me on how many calories ill be eating
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#24
My mom is so controlling it’s crazy. Mind you this is all happening as I’m 18. She has to know where I am at all times and is so controlling it drives me insane.
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#25
Dad wants to know everything, mom assumes it’s my boyfriend then backs up my dad saying he’s not being controlling but if it was my boyfriend then it is. I’m 19.
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#26
My mother is mad about bills she told me I didn’t have to give her yet, and expects me to take care of her dog
Context I moved out of my narcissistic mom’s house a couple months ago and she’s losing her mind that she no longer has control over my actions. However, my car died and I needed to get a new one, which my mother loaned me money for. My roommate E is who my mother is referring to. She uses she/they pronouns but my mother is transphobic so I have to deadname and misgender them to her (it’s okay with my roommate and I’m also trans so she misgenders and deadnames me to certain people too) When she mentions the dog pooping on the floor, that happened after I left when I was told by her I could leave because she was on her way home Bailey is my mom’s dog and Penguin is my new kitten. My brother, niece, and BIL are all allergic to cats.
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#27
I’m 24 (F), life is expensive so I still live at home. I’m still in school. My mother has decided that in order for me to focus on my education, I’m not allowed to have my boyfriend sleep over and not allowed to sleep over at my boyfriend’s. what the f*ck? my blood is actually boiling, I don’t understand who she thinks she is controlling like this? And what does she think I’m assuming? This is more of a rant post but I do need advice on how to even proceed… do I reply? do I let her attempt to talk to me about her “rules”?
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#28
My abusive mother trying to manipulate me to feel bad so that I stay with her after my parents divorce
My mother has been abusive and controlling almost my entire life. She also guilt trips me into thinking I’m ‘too young’ to know what my gender is. (I am trans male.)After years of her abuse, her and my dad are getting a divorce. She has been trying to get me to stay with her, by bribing me with trips, clothes, on top of gaslighting me.
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#29
My emotionally abusive aunt with my mom after she tried blowing up my phone while I was spending time with my bf (I just told her to leave me alone and respect my boundaries since I cut most contact with her, she’s a lying manipulator who tried brainwashingme into thinking my bf was abusive)
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#30
Our roommate’s dad has decided we don’t get to live in our apartment anymore
He has no power to do this. He does not live with us. His justification is that we aren’t suited to living together (because the apartment isn’t perfectly clean) despite us being very happy with our arrangement. Our roommate and her mom (who is a wonderful woman, absolutely love her, it just sucks that she’s married to this boomer [jerk]) have both tried to tell him that he doesn’t get to make that decision for us, but he has ignored them both. His name is on the lease, but only because he and his wife used to rent this apartment before us. They moved out 3 or 4 years ago and now live an hour away. No idea why he thinks this is ok.
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